Who was your first pre-war HOFer?

[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.

[Shoele$$]

1933 Goudey Babe Ruth #144 back in the mid to late 90's......paid $350 for it raw. If I would have had it graded, it probably would have been a 4.

[DeanH3]

33 Goudey Gehrig #92 PSA 8. Back in 2000 I traded a bunch of 50's PSA 8's of Mays, Aaron, Williams, Clemente and Koufax for the PSA 8 Gehrig. I soon realized I could not afford to collect pre-war 8's so I sold it and bought a bunch of mid-grade pre-war HOF'ers.

[paul]

I think mine was a 33 Goudey Bill Terry (portrait), probably purchased from Paul E. Marchant.

[darwinbulldog]

1933 Goudey Rabbit Maranville. I assumed pre-war cards were going to be well out of my price range but had recently read an article citing Maranville as the least deserving Hall of Famer, so I thought I'd see if I could at least afford one of his cards. Overpaid with a BIN on Ebay.

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by 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.

Tim Jordan is in HOF now?

Cheers,
Blair

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by Bosox Blair

Tim Jordan is in HOF now?

Cheers,
Blair

Woah! My bad. I missed the "HoF" in the thread title! Pretty sure my first pre-war HOFer was one of the following- '33 Goudey Joe Cronin or Paul "big poison" Waner, or a T206 Rube Waddell pitching. I bought all the same day at the same SF show a few years later while in HS.

I still have them all, though the mediocre Mr. jordan has long since come down from my wall.