Jose has an epic story about how when he came to this country how he didn’t really speak English. He would order Ham and Eggs every morning for breakfast and one day he tried to order something else. The punch line is in the end he said “Fu2k it Ham and eggs”. Story was even funnier when Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam tells the story with a jose accent. Great memory from Cubs fantasy Camp.

Asking former players to get involved in these things is never a good idea. Athletes are usually very bad at objectively analyzing their own sport. It's two completely different skill sets. Billy, Fergie, Ryne, Andre, and Lee actually know Jose, so of course they're drawn to that name on the list. Do they even know who Bill Nicholson was? Or Bob Rush? It's just not a great way to put together a hall of fame. We have historians and statisticians for a reason.

Guide to collecting the Cubs Hall of Fame

https://allthecubs.com/2022/09/09/co...-hall-of-fame/

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Here is Jim Vaughn as a Cub.

Kind of hard to find Hof on Cubs

I am really hesitant to even bring up a point/counter-point about vintage RC's, but I notice you don't seem to be on board with the 1908 E91 American Caramel Set A cards as RC's.

It's not on the same level of rarity as the 1903 Breisch-Williams cards, but is it because of rarity...or the whole "generic" thing (another back/forth argument with different sides, especially considering Set A cards)...or something else?

Speaking of rare, I love your 1933 George C Miller Lon Warneke. I spent a while looking a GCM Grimm or Warneke card at a decent price before I gave up trying to find a reasonably priced one.

Don't hesitate at all, it's my favorite thing to talk about lol. I don't have a big problem with considering E91s to be rookie cards. But one of the criteria I consider is the size of the set. I think a set should be league-comprehensive for it to qualify. It's the same reason I leave out 1933 DeLong. The E91 sets are only 33 players each. Some consider sets A B and C to be one big set but they're not checklisted that way. That is some super arbitrary, nit-picky pedantry, but I am a baseball card collector after all.

Yeah that GCM Warneke wasn't cheap but I wanted to have at least one in my collection. It's a great-looking set.

This one is my favorite Hippo Vaughn card, and one of my favorite cards in my whole collection. Love the look of it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWXTWGEX...g&name=900x900

I don't have a single Bresnahan card, which is inexcusable. Not exactly one of the greatest Cubs because he was there only three seasons, but I need to have at least one. Fatima or Cracker Jack preferably. Or that D303 (I think?) would be nice too.

Totally get that. I was just wondering your thinking on the matter.

Just realized I never introduced my collection website on Net54. LOTS of scanning and I'm finally mostly done. Use the dropdowns on the left to view the different collections or filter by player/set/etc.

https://allthecubs.com/card-filter/

Incredible stuff and one of thee coolest, well-done card pages Ive ever seen. Great work. Inspiring.

great site, great collection

Nice website. Congrats.

Awesome collection, concept and website. Thanks for sharing. I’ve been considering options to create a site for my collection. Would you recommend Wordpress?

Wordpress is convenient and powerful. Just make sure to stay on top of any patching for WP or any plugins you may use. Lots of vulnerabilities.

Neat collection.

My love affair with the Cubs was short when I was a kid in Chicago. The 1969 Cubs were my team. I have managed to assemble a complete collection of autographed photos (or just autographs) of every player who played for the team that year.

Very impressive! I am a bit older and have accumulated a lot of Cubs autographs; on cards, photos and baseballs. My team was from the 50's and Hank Sauer was my favorite all time Cub. Picture not too great but I didn't want to take it off the wall.

As a Cubs auto collector it would have been nice if Andre Rodgers signed more cards...Fukudome, too.

It took me quite a while to hunt down an Adolfo Phillips that wasn't insanely expensive. Randy Myers was a bit annoying to hunt down, too.

Got a couple huge Cubs cards in the Brockelman auction. Kiki Cuyler's rookie card (I guess? Depends on what you think of Exhibits as rookie cards) plus Santo's rare 1967 Stand-Up. I feel like I way overpaid for Kiki but got a deal on the Santo. First time I've seen either for sale.

https://allthecubs.com/wp-content/up...Kiki-Santo.jpg

How about two guys on your list for the price of one?

I've got the black and white one but not the funky colored one.

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The first Chicago NL star in 1876, the first year of the NL, Ross Barnes.

Holy smokes look at that. That's a beauty. I will not presume to ask for a price, that looks like it's in the forever collection. Anything on the back?

I don't have a scan of the back. I'm sure it has the photographer's ID and possibly a faint Barnes signature.

Well then I will presume to ask you to scan the back haha. You've got to document that artifact!

Maybe someday.

Also stoked to get this Nixey Callahan supplement from Brockelman. The only issue to show him as a Cub (Orphan/Colt whatever).

https://www.brockelmanauctions.com/I...3222a_med.jpeg

Plus some more Cubbie wonders:

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Here's one of my favorites, although I'm not at all sure why these subjects appear together in this set from 1936:
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That picture makes no sense! What in the world. Tris Speaker? C for Chicago or Cleveland? Or Cincinnati?

For a very short time in the early 30s Tris Speaker did radio for the cubs. It was in the early 30s, not the mid-30s, though.

Well that would make sense, because Taylor and Cuyler played together 1929-32. But I never knew that about Speaker.

Yes, Spoke was there in the booth for a brief while in 1931, but it's odd that he's in uniform (maybe a Spring Training hitting coach?) and odder that they would use such an old image given how the remaining cards are far more contemporary to the issue date. They must have really wanted to include Tris. Fine by me. Probably not much stuff out there connecting him to Chicago.

Very excited to add this little piece of history to the All the Cubs collection, from last night's HA auction. 1888 cabinet showcasing Al Spalding's Australia tour. My second Stevens Art Studio cabinet.

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