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Derek GrangerI am also working on a HOF Rookie collection...I've found many cards along the way that I don't think other people even know about...but that's half the fun...since the completion is pretty much impossible (esp. given that only one specimen exists for many HOF rookie cards (1904 Allegheny, 1894 Alpha Photo Engraving Baltimore Orioles cards, 1893 Just So, etc.).
Examples of cards that most HOF Rookie collectors have probably never seen before would be the 1909 Lancaster PA Team PC (which includes Stan Coveleski -- even pre-dating his 1915 Zeenut by 6 years) or a 1936 All-Star Game Ticket Stub w/ profiles of Landis, Harridge, and Frick.
Good luck to those of you looking for the earliest of each HOFer...it's a daunting, time-consuming, and extremely costly endeavor! And "new" rookies are discovered all the time...take, for instance, many of the Negro League stars w/ PC's and the like. Oh, and for those that were ogling the McGowan card...wasn't there a 1948-50 Safe-T card issued of him? And has anyone ever seen it?