Who is the most collected player of all time?

[deadballfreaK]

Originally Posted by Matthew H

I'd say Mickey Mantle too. There's plenty of his cards to go around. It still takes a special buyer to afford to seriously collect ruth cards.

Mantle for sure. Way more available. Maybe not as desirable. Ruth was the better player.

[steve B]

And here I was trying to figure it out based on adding in set collectors and general collectors.

Nearly everyone wants a Ruth card, but unless it's one of the modern ones there aren't that many around.
The more current players have more cards, both more different cards, and more cards total.

I'd have to go with Mantle. There was that whole insert set with one for each home run. I think there was a similar insert for Bonds though....

And for total cards, Ryan was in all those massively overproduced sets in the late 80's and early 90's....

Steve B

[39special]

I say Mantle.I collect post war,but if I was gonna get a pre war it would be a Cobb before a Ruth.But thats just me.

[Peter_Spaeth]

What does most collected mean? The number of jeter arod griffey jordan cards submitted to grading services dwarfs mantle

[Bored5000]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

What does most collected mean? The number of jeter arod griffey jordan cards submitted to grading services dwarfs mantle

That is a great point. There is no right answer to the question posed; A lot of it depends on how you define "most collected." Griffey's '89 Upper Deck card alone has been submitted to PSA for grading over 56,000 times; there are 4,493 items in the Griffey master set list at PSA.

[MBMiller25]

I'm going to agree with Chuck, I think world-wide, its got to be Michael Jordan.

[the 'stache]

I'd agree on Jordan, but I'd assumed he was restricting the discussion to baseball players, as baseball was the lone sport represented in his poll.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Unscientific snapshot survey of ebay

PSA Derek Jeter 3140
PSA Mickey Mantle 2385
PSA Ken Griffey Jr. 2749
PSA Michael Jordan 3082

[EGreenwood]

Pre-War - Ruth
Post-War - Mantle
Modern - Ripken, Griffey Jr., Jeter, Ichiro
Current - I have no idea

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by EGreenwood

Pre-War - Ruth
Post-War - Mantle
Modern - Ripken, Griffey Jr., Jeter, Ichiro
Current - I have no idea

Current I'd say Bryce Harper, Mike Trout, and Miguel Cabrera. Joey Votto's also highly collected.

[esquiresports]

I'd have to say Griffey in a landslide. The number of people who have purchased or opened a pack to get a Griffey rookie likely dwarfs all the names listed on the poll combined. Card collecting will never be as big as it was in the late 1980s/early 1990s. Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire would be my next choices.