Who was your first pre-war HOFer?

[tonyo]

1933 goudey Travis Jackson August 20, 2009

[srs1a]

Mine was the WaJo portrait below, and it's still one of my favorites.

[deadballera]

mine was the 1934 Goudey Lou Gehrig portrait. Back in the early 90's after watching Pride of the Yankees.

I was hooked !

[Cardboard Junkie]

Bought a stack of T cards (all kinds) from Charlie Conlon in the 70's for 100 bucks......loaded with HOFs, including t206 Cobb red and green portraits.
Sure was a lot more fun when cards weren't worth a lot of money. One hundred dollars was about 2 weeks full time work for me as stock boy at S. S. Kresge Co. My dad thought I had lost my mind.

[triwak]

Purchased in May, 2004. First time I'd ever paid more than $10 for a card. Damn, that seems like a long time ago, ha! Still have Mr. Tinker.

[abothebear]

Three years ago I was just getting back into cards (60s, 70s, and 80s mostly), scouring ebay auctions as they wound down near close. I don't remember exactly how it played out, but I saw a National Game card, Runner Sliding Umpire Behind referencing Ty Cobb as the runner. At the same time I saw an identical card without referencing Cobb. The "Cobb" card closed at $75, so I made a move and was able to win the no "Cobb' in title at half the price. That is when i realized that I could find 100 year old HOFers in my budget if I worked at it. I add only a few a year, but the game of it is more than half the fun.

[tbob]

Joe Tinker bat on shoulder exmt purchased from Bill Mastro in 1981.

[Bosox Blair]

Bought this one raw in the 1990s and sent it in for grading to the old SGC...still mine:

[itjclarke]

T206 Tim Jordan portrait I got as a kid (circa 1989) for about $4. I had no idea who he was till I got home, but got really fired up when I saw he'd been a league leading HR hitter. I put it in my hands, smelled it and then hung it on my wall... and I reveled at the thought that the guy who'd originally pulled it from a cigarette pack was probably long since gone.

[Paul S]

Got it mid/late sixties. $5. When most others were thinking Thai, I thought Ty. Still got it. Here. Thai came later...bat off version.

[RCMcKenzie]

I bought a 33 Goudey Goslin port and Hornsby #119 around 1979 from an ad in a baseball publication. I think the Goslin was $40 and the Hornsby $70. I probably paid way too much on account of the cost of the ad. Here is the Goslin. It is still in one of my early vintage binders shown here front/back. I traded the Hornsby a long time ago. Cheers.

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[cyseymour]

Jim O'Rourke

[JeremyW]

Thirty years ago, these were much more affordable. I still have the card & credit it for drawing me back into the hobby in 2006, after a nearly 20 year hiatus.

[Shoele$$]

Originally Posted by JeremyW

Thirty years ago, these were much more affordable. I still have the card & credit it for drawing me back into the hobby in 2006, after a nearly 20 year hiatus.

Very nice! Looks like my first HOF card

[mattsey9]

The man who won the greatest game ever played. Mordecai Brown - T206.