most HOFers, same team, same set
 

5 -- several 60s Topps sets -- Mays, McCovey, Cepeda, Marichal, Perry. And Spahn and Snider played briefly for the Giants too, don't recall if at the same time, but no cards.

Any other 5s? Or even 4s?

1982 Red Sox had Wade Boggs, Carl Yastrzemski, Tony Perez, Jim Rice and Dennis Eckersley.

Snider, Campanella, Hodges, Koufax, Drysdale, Reese - 1959 Topps. With Jackie in the mix you get 5 in 1952 and surely other sets with 4 or 5.

Mantle, Berra, Ford, Rizzuto, Mize - 1953 Topps (a tough year to do it with the split contracts). Presumably others in this period can also get to 5 with the Yankees.

Campanella did not play after 1957.

1933 goudey - 5 - Dizzy , Durocher , Frisch , Vance , Haines .
Medwick would have been 6

Bench, Morgan, Perez, Rose - numerous sets in the 70's for 4.

Banks, Santo, Williams, Banks in the late 60's and early 70's for several sets also get 4.

If you ignore his 1959 Topps card, you still get 5 that year.

Oops prewar

Indeed.

Banks did say let's play two but you can't count him twice. You mean Jenkins?

I’m an idiot and cannot write, evidently.

Rose technically no, but a couple of years where Philly had Rose, Morgan, Schmidt and Carlton.

1968 topps - just 4 - Cepeda , Brock , Gibson, Catlton .
Non hofers Roger Maris and Curt Flood ,
HOF Ted Simmons played a couple games but no card

WIth asterisks, but 2005 Yankees
Jeter
ARod
Cano
Randy Johnson
Mussina
Rivera

Sticking with the Cardinals
1971 Topps and 1972 Topps

Gibson
Simmons
Brock
Torre
Carlton
And manager HOF Red Schoendienst

Some may be surprised at this but the 1971 Twins had:
(In parenthesis is number of years with Twins)

Harmon Killebrew (14 years)
Rod Carew (12 years)
Tony Oliva (15 years)
Jim Kaat (15 years)
Bert Blyleven RC (11 years)

and this one doesn't count but owner, Calvin Griffith who was adopted by Clark Giffith (HOF)

1950 Bowman - six HOFers - Indians - Feller, Lemon, Wynn, Doby, Gordon, Boudreau.

1949 Bowman - 7 Cleveland Indians
 

1949 Bowman: Boudreau, Feller, Wynn, Gordon, Paige, Doby, Lemon

7 HOF, 18 total Indians cards in the set

7 Indians in 1949 will be really hard to beat.

Another 4 batch, 1939 Play Ball - Ruffing, DiMaggio, Dickey, Gomez on the Yankees, in a fairly small set.



If I may be forgiven for a 3 reference, 1948 Bowman has a fairly young Schoendienst, Musial and Slaughter as 3 of the 4 Cardinals (the other being Marty Marion who received a significant number of HOF votes for many years) in the small 48 card set. What a great grouping of players for such a small multi-team set. Got to be up there for per-card-talent-in-a-team-in-1-set.

2001 Atlanta Braves had five (soon to be six) Hall Of Famers in the dugout

Greg Maddux
Tom Glavine
John Smoltz
Chipper Jones
Bobby Cox

Andruw Jones

Doesn't work card wise but 31 Yankees with NINE hofers -- Ruth, Gehrig, Dickey, Combs, Lazzeri, Sewell, Ruffing, Pennock, Gomez

It's funny this post came up...the other night I was looking through my 1985 Fleer set (yes, bored, lol) and as you know they list their players by team, and then how the team finished. The 2nd to the worst team in 1984 was the Brewers, cards # 576-601. I couldn't help but notice how many HOFers were on this team! It really stood out, 5 -

Rollie Fingers
Paul Molitor
Ted Simmons
Don Sutton
Robin Yount


5 tired old timers at the end of their career all on the same team. That would have been a fun dug out! Well, I guess Molitor and Yount weren't too old...

Its strange to me the number of teams with multiple HOFers for years that really did nothing as far as championships in the 60's and 70's - Giants, Cubs, Twins, Red Sox for example. Yet teams like the Dodgers with only one marginal HOFer (Sutton) were consistently in the hunt and in the WS, winning it all in 1981.

27 As
Cochrane, Foxx, Collins, Simmons, Cobb, Wheat, Grove

1963 Topps Mets (!)
 

This is in the "or even 4" category, but still pretty good for an early Met team:

Richie Ashburn
Casey Stengel
Gil Hodges
Duke Snider

64 Braves
Aaron
Mathews
Spahn
Niekro
Torre*

One of my favorite Tiger trivia questions is to name the year and the 5 hall of famers who started and batted in a row on opening day.

2. Mickey Cochrane
3. Charley Gehringer
4. Hank Greenberg
5. Al Simmons
6. Goose Goslin

Sadly, this didn't last long as Greenberg re-fractured his wrist and Cochrane suffered a nervous breakdown. But it's the only year in history where Detroit had 5 hall of famers on its team.

The 1936 version of the Diamond Star set has a card for each, with the Simmons card in blue ink depicting him as a Tiger.

41 Red Sox
Foxx
Williams
Cronin
Doerr
Grove

1933 Goudey
Babe Ruth
Lou Gehrig
Bill Dickey
Tony Lazzeri
Red Ruffing
Earle Combs
Herb Pennock
Joe Sewell
Lefty Gomez

That is 9 New York Yankees.

Oh man I had the Yankee 9 in post 22 for 1931 but forgot they all continued into 1933 and all had cards. Unapproachable record.

1933 Goudey also gets you the Cardinals with 6: Vance, Frisch, Haines, Hornsby, Durocher, Dean

I don't collect the 20's but there is probably a 1920's set with a lot of Giants HOFers, from the Frisch veterans committee corruption inducting all his teammates. Frisch, Kelly, Jackson, Wilson, Youngs, Terry, Southworth, Lindstrom were on the team in 1924 for 1 example, Bancroft was there 1921-1923, McGraw was still managing into the 30's.

The Pirates also had 6 - Paul Waner, Lloyd Waner, Pie Traynor, Arky Vaughan, Waite Hoyt and Freddie Lindstrom.

I completely forgot Hornsby 😐

No, you were right - Hornsby was a Brown in 1933 Goudey.

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Ok, fine, but his other 33G card had him accurately as a Brown, and he hadn’t been a Cardinal since 1926. That card was a retrospective.

EDIT: I looked it up on BBRef, which separates the teams for split seasons, and apparently he did go back to the Cardinals for part of 1933. So I stand corrected.

I think this one is wrong,Ashburn on 1962 team and Snider on the 1963 team.

He really bounced around late in his career: Giants, Braves. Cubs, Cardinals, Browns.

1967/9 you can add Joseph Franklin Niekro - so you can get to 5

I think Joe Niekro will never make the HOF.

If you count the manager you can get to five.

Ashburn has a 1963 Topps Card so 4 is correct for 63 Topps cards of Mets who later made the HOF

1988 Cubs

Maddux
Sandberg
Gossage
Dawson

1961 Cubs

Banks
Santo
Williams
Ashburn

1962, 1963, 1964 Cubs

Banks
Santo
Williams
Brock