Baseball Card HOF voting is now open

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Posted By: jay behrens

Hal, I am with you. I want this to be best and coolest cards. If you've seent he other thread I've started about favorite cards, I ask this same question.

I personally dislike the fact that so many HOFers get noiminated. I think this is more a function of the fact that these are the cards people are familiar with. When people look at cards from sets they don't own, they tend to look at the HOFers and pass over commons.

As you noted, most of the early nominees are significant cards in the hobby. Personally wouldn't say any of them are worthy of being the best or coolest looking cards. Remove the name and price tag from those card, I doubt anyone would give them a second thought. Especially cards like e90-1 Mitchel, t206 Wagner, P&S REds and the Baltimore News Ruth. There is nothing particularily striking about these cards other than the name and history attached to the card.

Becuase of that, I asked a long time back if we should just default in all the significant cards like the Big 3 t206 and t207 cards, the 33 Lajoie, etc.

Also, I will openly admit some bias being invovled in what cards get voted on. If you notice, the only catagory that has 2 cards from the same set is the 19c catagory. This was done on purpose, mainly becuase I felt the Hengle and Whitney cards were far better choices than cards from any other set nominated that wasn't already in the final cut.

Jay

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