Who was your first pre-war HOFer?

[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.

[bwbc917]

Got a t-206 Joss in the late 70's. Later had it graded and it got a PSA 6. Still is a cornerstone of my Cleveland collection.

[T206Collector]

Bought a 1933 Goudey Vernon "Lefty" Gomez for fifty cents in a junk box at the local card shop circa 1988. Sold it a few years later for $15. Should've held on to it for posterity.

[Seiklis]

A E120 of Stan Coveleski

[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.