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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

Absolutely, when a pre-war player gets inducted to the Hall of Fame their cards suddenly become MUCH more valuable, this same phenomenon does not take place with modern MLB players (by modern I mean post war). This is due to the fact that with few exceptions (Chase, Hoy, etc.) the people that collect pre-war cards tend to group people into two groups...Hall of Famers, and Commons. So any player that is a fringe HOF candidate tend to be "commons" until they finally get enshrined. Belive me nobody was paying any more for a Vic Willis than they were for Deacon Phillippe or Sam Leever prior to his more recent induction. Also, while McPhee was a tough HOFer, the HOF collectors weren't running up the price on his OJ prior to his induction. It is funny that the Jim Rice's, Dale Murphy's, and even Don Mattingly's of the pre-war era are considered by many to be "common" as they haven't been inducted into the all-powerful HOF yet.

In the other thread I touched on the absence of American Association players that could/should be in the HOF. Among those are Mullane, Browning, Orr, Stovey, Caruthers, O'Neill, and even Mathews. I would love to see some of those guys get in (but only after I get their OJ cards)
-Rhett