I've now uploaded the Hall of Fame rookie gallery. For each Hall of Famer in the gallery, I've tried to include their earliest known card, including minor league cards. If I don't have the player's minor league card in my collection, or if the player doesn't have a minor league card, then I went with the major league rookie. In a few exceptional cases, I went another early card of the player. If a player did not have a card in his first two or three full seasons, then in my opinion he doesn't have a rookie card and he is most likely not in this gallery. In a few cases, I stretched the definition of a "card." For Nellie Fox and George Kell, I included team issue photos because I wanted something of both of these players from their early days with the A's.
This collection is by no means complete. You'll find no Just So Cy Young in here. No Matty. No Wagner. Just cards that I actually own.
Enjoy. The gallery of my "other favorites" will be up in a few minutes. It's very small.
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