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Top 10 — Most Collected Players
I’m sure that forms of this have been discussed before. Interested on peoples list of the top 10 most collected baseball players. Thinking this would be my list. Tough exercise.
Babe Ruth Ty Cobb Honus Wagner Mickey Mantle Jackie Robinson Ted Williams Joe Jackson Joe DiMaggio Willie Mays Hank Aaron |
Nice list, thanks for getting us started...
I would sub out Ted Williams for Ken Griffey Jr, who seems to be one of the most collected players still today. |
My list would be
Honus Wagner Ty Cobb Joe Jackson Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig Jackie Robinson Mickey Mantle Willie Mays Hank Aaron Roberto Clemente |
Just to play devil’s advocate. Many people can’t collect those players because of cost. This may be better called “most desired” versus “most collected”.
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I like Ethan's list except I would include Gehrig and delete Aaron. My real preference would be a list of 11 with both Gehrig and Aaron included.
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I don't think there are enough Wagners and Jacksons, especially at reasonable prices, to make them collectable for any but a small elite. I also don't think DiMaggio is quite up there. My (strictly vintage baseball) list would therefore be:
Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig Ty Cobb Mickey Mantle Willie Mays Ted Williams Henry Aaron Jackie Robinson Roberto Clemente And for the 10th...Sandy Koufax? |
I collect mostly players from the turn of the century (1900s), so my personal list of players I collect are:
Honus Wagner Ty Cobb Babe Ruth Joe Jackson Cy Young Christy Mathewson Eddie Plank Nap Lajoie Lou Gehrig Tris Speaker That said, I recognize that 5 of the bottom 6 (excluding Gehrig) wouldn’t show up on most lists, and I think most would substitute at least Mantle, Mays, and Robinson; not sure the balance |
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It's a tough question to really answer as it becomes quite the jumble of all-time favorites, HOF'ers you're 'supposed' to want, valuable cards, home run Gods, players you would collect, but can't afford, and on and on.
As a post-war guy, I don't think the list even reaches ten (although each collector has his personal favorite players to feather the nest), but it clearly would be these guys in a sort-of 'if you see them at a good price, you buy them immediately' kind of way (in no specific order): • Mickey Mantle • Willie Mays • Hank Aaron • Sandy Koufax • Roberto Clemente • Nolan Ryan • Jackie Robinson • Ted Williams |
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All that said, I think Wajo is a top 5 best player of all time and probably the best pitcher in history. |
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Joe Jackson Babe Ruth Ty Cobb Lou Gehrig Mickey Mantle Willie Mays Hank Aaron Kirby Puckett (was a big MN Twins fan growing up) Rod Carew Harmon Killebrew |
Most collected, hmm. For me, that is a balance between affordability and desirability: Walter Johnson, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Nolan Ryan, Steph Curry, Walter Payton and Derrick Henry. If for some crazy reason I have big money burning a hole in my pocket - Cobb, Mathewson, Ruth & Ted Williams.
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mathewson cy young walter johnson clemente ruth paige Rod carew and Pete rose hornsby greenberg |
I going to include up to ultra modern:
Cobb Ruth Gehrig Mantle / or sub Jackie Robinson Mays Aaron / or sub Clemente Henderson Griffey Trout Ohtani (for international fame) / or sub Acuna Jr Sent from my SM-G9900 using Tapatalk |
I'm really glad to see that Sam Rice isn't on anyone's list! :D
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I am approaching this from a strictly 20th century/Prewar point of view, and also from a 'Top 10 Most Desired' angle. Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio were considered for the list, but since they were both at the start of their careers when WW2 lowered its boom, I decided instead to include a couple of others (Hornsby and Foxx) in their place.
Babe Ruth Ty Cobb Honus Wagner Joe Jackson Lou Gehrig Cy Young Christy Mathewson Walter Johnson Rogers Hornsby Jimmie Foxx Brian |
If the question is meant to include all collectors in the hobby, none of these lists is even close, with Tim's being the closest. Vintage is a small portion of the hobby now and probably has been for quite a while. Most people here are just listing their favorite players, predictably, but that is not the question. Joe Jackson in the top 10 collected players? Uh, no.
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I would not take Wagner or Jackson off the list unless the criteria was changed. I understand based on prices cards are now tougher to buy. If the criteria was based on available to the masses then I could see potentially taking Jackson off the list I can understand since limited # and sets of cards resulted in low supply and high demand so higher prices. But there is a huge number of sets and cards that Wagner was in and there are still enough supply to make him having cards just as available and affordable as other stars on the list
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Here is my list made up of players whose careers started in the pre-war card era.
Babe Ruth Ty Cobb Honus Wagner Lou Gehrig Joe Jackson Cy Young Walter Johnson Ted Williams Christy Mathewson Joe DiMaggio |
When I’m selling I get the most requests for
Clemente Jackie Robinson Mantle Nolan Ryan Jeter Aaron Koufax HOF rookies Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Pre War for players I like (not most collected)
Cobb Jackson Gehrig Young Wagner Ruth DiMaggio Williams Mathewson Johnson/Hornsby/Foxx Postwar Cards in order: Mantle Clemente Robinson, J Jeter Aaron Ripken Jr Rose Griffey Jr Trout Mays/Ryan/Henderson/Ohtani/Acuna |
This would be my Most Collected/Easily Liquidated/ Growth Investment Names
Ruth Cobb Wagner J Jackson J Robinson Mantle Mays Clemente Rose Ryan |
wow some great lists and I agree it is almost impossible to keep it to 10 and that is just in mlb
I like breaking it up by pre war and post war to give us 20 as Bean Town did |
Babe Ruth
Mickey Mantle Jackie Robinson Michael Jordan Muhammad Ali Pele Tom Brady Roberto Clemente Ohtani LeBron James Don't forget the rest of the world or the other sports. Their collector bases are worldwide. Also can't omit the moderns; their footprint is gigantic compared to vimtage. If limited to baseball: Ruth Mantle Robinson Clemente Ohtani Jeter Griffey Jr. Cobb Gehrig Ryan |
As of last year, allegedly this is the top 10.
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These are my top ten, and I have at least two of each . . .
Babe Ruth Ty Cobb Honus Wagner Mickey Mantle Jackie Robinson Ted Williams Lou Gehrig Joe DiMaggio Willie Mays Stan Musial |
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Ruth, Joe Jackson, Cobb, Wagner, Matty, Young, Gehrig, that I like!
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I am not in a bubble on this and I thought last year BR did a decent research job to take all transactions into account. Unsurprisingly, the most veteran player was Trout - https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ll-card-market This has likely changed a bit as modern changes with the winds, but the real talk is that my cards are nowhere near the masses due to cost and quantity. I think the question is not being answered, all of these are no where near the top 10 most collected players, but maybe somewhere in the top 10 most known players...likely that is still a stretch to the common collector under 35. |
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Ebay search for PSA Joe Jackson: 414 results, and that includes some Joe Morgan/Sonny Jackson cards. PSA Derek Jeter: 15,000 plus results. |
As the thread question is posed, I think the 10 most collected players would all have to be modern. The amount of of people capable of dropping four figures or more on a card for many of the pre-war names that have been mentioned in this thread is limited -- at least compared to the number of people able to pick up cheap cards of current players.
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I don't think people collect modern cards for the most part. They are investing and flipping. Most of these cards crash in value. The only current player that should even be considered is Mike Trout.
Most collected players are players that people buy to keep in their collection. The most collectible players by definition are going to be players whose cards are more difficult to find because they are locked away in collections. |
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If anyone is interested in a semi-scientific study, there is a Player Collection thread on Blowout forums. If the length of the lines are indicative of anything other than character count, then the five most popular players to collect are: Ken Griffey. Jr Bryce Harper Derek Jeter Nolan Ryan David Wright Added in edit: The question was who the most collected players are, not the most collectible. Out in the workaday world, there is a difference. |
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I think there is a big difference who collectors would like to collect and who they can afford and thus actually collect. Why would a collector with a $200 a month hobby budget be interested in Wagner, Jackson etc because any one of their cards would destroy their budget in one transaction and leave 364 days with no collecting activity. I would guess that the majority of top tier collections have been in place for years and enhanced somewhat thru trades and purchases with money from other sales. The other 99% of collectors acquire what is reasonably available in their price range. Based on this reasoning I would think the top players collected are junk era thru current players.
Judge Jetter Trout Harper Ryan Griffy Jr |
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You have to remember the majority of Blowout are collectors of a specific age that grew up in the junk wax era. Not a good representation of the hobby either. |
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Ruth Jeter Ryan Rose Robinson Aaron Griffey jr Mays Clemente There are better players than some of these guys but I don’t think there are many that are more collected. Trout and or ohtani may belong on this list somewhere but I’m not sure who I’d take off. Ripken jr also has a lot of collectors.i am honestly not sure cobb Wagner etc have more collectors than the post war guys. I know we would mostly rather have their cards but this is not a group that is even close to representing how the majority of the hobby feels. |
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To me I like the combo of Vintage, popularity and Rarity!
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Griffey is hands down the #1 most collected baseball player in the hobby. And it's not close. While many of the pre-war guys might be more desirable, they're priced out for the majority of collectors. Blending these lists is not easy. But I think the top 10 probably looks something like this:
1. Ken Griffey Jr. 2. Mike Trout 3. Babe Ruth 4. Jackie Robinson 5. Mickey Mantle 6. Willie Mays 7. Ty Cobb 8. Hank Aaron 9. Nolan Ryan 10. Roberto Clemente |
Travis' list still looks too skewed to vintage to me. How may people are really buying Babe Ruth cards? I have to believe Jeter is on any hobby inclusive list, for example. And currently, Ohtani for sure.
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Blowout not only is more representative, its membership dwarfs that of 54, so there is that.
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We're not on Blowout. That's a different hobby. King Tuck parallel's and Luis Roberts and all of that. I think it's a great hobby that they have, but I'm not in that hobby. |
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To clarify, it's a fun debate. I took the original question to mean, "what players do you like to collect?" "You", meaning NET54 people reading the prewar section.
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You quoted my post where I said that current players shouldn't be on the list except maybe Trout and you posted your list from Blowout that was 80% retired players. So how doesn't that prove my point? You posted a list from people who grew up as kids collecting junk era cards in the 90s and of course they are going to have guys that were hot then Ryan, Griffey and Jeter. I set up at card shows for 30 years and I don't think I have ever been asked for a David Wright card. To have Harper as the only active player instead of Trout, Judge or Ohtani makes no sense. |
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Who actually collects Honus Wagner, other than a few dozen? If we are talking masses, Griffey is probably number one. Sent from my SM-G998U using Tapatalk |
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My personal Top 10 in order is:
Mantle Griffey Ruth Gehrig Cobb Wagner Joe Jackson Nolan Ryan Jackie Robinson Clemente Honorable mention to Cy Young, Matty, Mays, and Hank Aaron. If this were a poll of what we thought the top 10 in the hobby are, I'm not even sure Mantle or Ruth would make the list, all 10 would probably be modern. Also I'd bet there a lot more Wagner collectors out there than Joe Jackson I included a pic of a few of my favorites |
I’d say Michael Jordan is more heavily collected than all the players on these top 10 lists combined.
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The players I own 5 or more of are
Cobb Ruth Gehrig DiMaggio Williams Musial Mays Aaron Clemente Jordan Jim Brown |
I probably randomly have 35 Amos Otis cards from 70's-80's packs. I never gathered them up together to make an Amos Otis binder.
My brother was a player collector back then. He had binders of Tom Seaver, Tommy John, Kirby Puckett, Rickey Henderson etc. From a median age standpoint, does everyone have a random Pete Rose card in their collection? I don't have Jordan and Griffey and Trout because I'm old. I wish I had more Tris Speakers than Amos Otis, but it's okay. |
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I’d say 1990s inserts. He’s been a easy sell for me for years. Some of the rare 90s inserts hit big money at auction. I’d say he’s widely collected. There does seem to be a preference of him in a Mariners uniform for a lot of collectors though. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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Off the top of my head, here are Griffey insert cards that are highly sought after....and some of these aren't that limited: 1993 Topps Finest Refractor 1994 UD Griffey and Mantle dual auto 1995 Stadium Club Ringmaster 1996 Topps Chrome Refractor 1997 UD Game Jersey (first relic set ever created) 90s UD Chirography Late 90s Topps Gallery "Gallery of Heroes" 1995 Leaf Statistical Standouts 1998 Donruss Crusade 1994 - 1997 Flair Showcase Hot Glove Sent from my SM-G9900 using Tapatalk |
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