Anybody do/thought about a HOF run?

[tonyo]

Originally Posted by jasonc

Certainly there are set collectors that do set runs -- collecting the whole set for consecutive years, but are there people who collect only the hall of famers. It certainly won't keep costs down, but they don't have to worry about collecting the commons?
A run of hall of famers from 1952 - 1980 would look great together in binders, for those collecting low grade. In addition any new election to the hall of fame, keeps your collecting "fresh" as you have to hunt down that individual's cards.

I was inspired by this thread : http://www.net54baseball.com/showthr...=completionist to attempt a run of topps/bowman regular issue hofer players only (no managers, execs,umps) 1948-1980. Fair/Good/VG condition. Mostly raw.

I still need 52t Campanella, Mathews, Wilhelm and 49b Snider, JRobinson and Paige. Also my 67t Seaver was sold as a reprint - it's a good one though, I can't really tell a difference and I wouldn't be completely shocked if it actually is authentic ( I know that's unlikely and I've never sent a card in for grading and don't really have any plans to so I probably will never find out). Regardless, I'll probably never own a real one- it's just not an appealing enough card for me to spend what it costs. Actually the same is true for the 52t Wilhelm and Mathews.

My cards aren't in albums though. Just sitting in stacks by year in an old cabinet I have that has a lot of shallow drawers. I like picking up a stack of 30 or 40 and thumbing thru them like I did back in the day.

Tony