T201 Ed Walsh July 30, 1995 Cooperstown, N.Y.
Mike Schmidt and Richie Ashburn Induction Weekend.
How can you forget that!!
Just may have been the most enjoyable few days in my life!!
We had a ball!!!

Woah! My bad. I missed the "HoF" in the thread title! :rolleyes: Pretty sure my first pre-war HOFer was one of the following- '33 Goudey Joe Cronin or Paul "big poison" Waner, or a T206 Rube Waddell pitching. I bought all the same day at the same SF show a few years later while in HS.

I still have them all, though the mediocre Mr. jordan has long since come down from my wall.

I don't own it anymore but it was a 33 Goudey Gehrig #92... It was a thrill...my first big time pre war HOF card!

Ricky Y

Mine was a T206 Ty Cobb, red portrait

1935 Diamond Star Lefty Grove
 

Here was my first pre-war card. I will never trade or sell this. I have had it since 1986 or 1987.

My first
 

My first:

1909-11 T206 Nap Lajoie (w/ Bat) Polar Bear back

Bought it raw in 2002 and got it graded last year - came back as SGC 50!
Sold it shortly thereafter for a nice 132% profit (not a horrible 10 year return though).

At the time, I wanted a card of each player in the 3,000 hit club...somehow that collection morphed into a focus on HoF rookies...here I am today...not a single T206 in my collection!!!

I learn something almost everyday on Net54. And to think that I have long believed that Walter Johnson won the 7th game of the 1924 World Series! :D

Speaking of WaJo, my first pre-War card was a T207 WaJo that I will always keep - got it in a trade with Bill Huggins back in the mid-1980s, before he got into doing auctions - I went to his card store in nearby Maryland and traded Bill some pristine 1960 Topps commons, which, thankfully, Mom didn't toss after I left home. This led me to acquiring as many WaJo cards as I could find and afford ever since.
Val

1979..I was 16...T205 Frank Chance.