Posted By:
Phil GarryDan:
One idea that you might want to consider is to collect team cards such as the 1913 Fatima T200's & 1906 Hammon Chicago Cubs/White Sox Postcards where the individual players are identified on the bottom of the card and you can pick up several HOF'ers on one card and the prices are generally not that crazy in mid-lower grade condition.
I also collect the earliest image of each HOF'er that I can afford and this team card strategy has filled in a number of holes in my collection:
T200 Brooklyn w/Casey Stengel
T200 Chicago w/Ray Schalk
T200 Philadelphia w/Eppa Rixey
1906 Hammon Cubs w/Joe Tinker & Johnny Evers
1906 Hammon White Sox w/Ed Walsh & George Davis
You should understand that many collectors do not consider team cards as candidates for rookie cards but to each his/her own, I guess....