Zeenuts are not easy
The 1924-30 range of Zeenut HOF players are probably the easiest to come across, especially the 1927-30 players. The DiMaggio cards are out there too, but will cost an appendage or two. Of the other ones I have seen on most people's wantlists over the years but rarely appear would probably be the 1913 Heilmann, 1915 Covaleskie and Heilmann, 1918 Crawford and 1919 Vance. Any of the ones that are first appearances on a card (such as the 1919 Vance, 1923 P.Waner etc...there are a lot of them) are nowadays popular and command a premium. In general they are tough to come by.
A good resource for Major League players that appeared in the Zeenut issues is an article by the late collector Don MacPherson (with the aid of Buck Barker) that was published in Lew Lipset's Old Judge Newsletter, I believe in the 1980's. It lists the 860+ MLB players that the authors laboriously researched and indentified as having appeared over the span of Zeenut issues, including the year and identified team shown on each years card.
Brian
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