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In a drawer somewhere, you know that you've got a Joe Cronin that the dog chewed on. A Lou Boudreau that met some bicycle spokes. An Arky Vaughn that went through the washer. They're a bit worse for the wear, but these guys are hall of famers. Don't let them sit in dark anonymity in the bottom of that drawer. They deserve better.

Let's see them. Better, let's play a game with them. The point of this game is to put together the least expensive hall of fame collection that we, collectively, can manage.


The game has four rules:

(1) Each post must feature a card of a hall of famer.

This card must:

(2) have been issued while he was an active player,

and either:

(3) be of a player who hasn't yet appeared in this thread,

or

(4) if it is a player who has already appeared in the thread, the card that you post must cost less than the last card posted of that player.


For example, the card in this first post is of Mel Ott. I paid $3 for it. So the second post in this thread must either be of a player other than Mel Ott (and so is legal under rule #3) or it must have cost less than $3 (and so is legal under rule #4). So get out your beaters, and let's find the cheapest HOF set that we can put together.

This is a 1941 Double Play Mel Ott. Like so many DP cards, some kid cut it in half. Unlike most, that kid changed his mind and glued it back together. And, at some point, he also cut off a slice of the bottom of the card for no reason that I can tell.