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Posted By: Scot Reader

There have been recent threads about who DOES command the highest premium among the deadball era players. I am interested in reading views on who SHOULD command the highest premium and why. Assume for the sake of this thought experiment that you are collecting a hypothetical caramel set having 100 different cards including a single card of each deadball era legend wherein all cards in the set are equally attractive and in equal supply. You begin to collect this fictional set with no preconceptions about actual pricing. You only know the players' histories. Then you are required to assign an appropriate (in your mind) premium above common for:

Cobb (arguably the greatest position player of the era)
Jackson (Black Sox lore)
Johnson (arguably the greatest pitcher of the era)
Matty (arguably the greatest pitcher of the era)
Wagner (arguably the greatest infielder of the era)
Young (place in history secure due to 511 wins + name on the award)

Follow-up question: Assume knowledge of player availability in other sets (e.g. assume you know about Cobb's relative abundance in other sets and Wagner's relative difficulty in other sets and the T206 lore), and answer again.