HOF as a “set” collectors - how many of us are out there?

[ldrunner27]

My focus for HOFers was cards issued during their playing career and also voted in via the BBWAA, not veteran's committee or old timers. This has made it a little more manageable from a monetary standpoint and the fact that I started a few years ago means the Ruth, Mathewson, and Gehrig cards were far less expensive than they are now. I couldn't purchase the same cards if I started today.

[triwak]

My goal as well. One "period" card of EVERY HOFer. I'm 11 shy of completion (5 execs, 6 Negro Leaguers). I count CDVs, Studio cabinets, premiums, supplements, and postcards. Team cards, also. I've tried to embed the link to my collection in my signature, below (Flickr), but not certain I'm doing it correctly?!

[Bridwell]

I, too, am avidly collecting HoF players from their playing days.

This is a link to my PSA Registry collection of them: https://www.psacard.com/psasetregist...shedset/367589

This is a link to my PSA Registry collection, showing only the images:
https://www.psacard.com/psasetregist...gallery/367589

There are 266 possible in this "set". Most of my 19th C. players and negro leaguers are not from the playing days. That will be quite a task!

[familytoad]

You all have me interested in my HOF collection again!
Thank you!

I’m not terribly organized with mine since it morphed into set collecting . And unfortunately I do not have the HOF singles and sets all in one place for many of the sets , but I tell myself I will get there some day.

So what caught my eye is the difference between BP’s 120 count of HOFERS that sorta sounds like my criteria and the larger 266 from Ron.
We all have different counts on this quest it seems.
It seems that some of you guys have even different counts based on how you want to collect them.
I’d be very interested in trying to track these counts somehow .
And I guess it makes sense for me to develop my own count that I never really finished.

Anyone wanna play “What’s your HOF number” including a clever nickname?

[alaskapaul3]

It's creative/great how we all come up with our own collecting criteria!

Mine is

- Elected as 'Player' and card must be from playing days [thanks for taking a few AB's in the Teens Hughie Jennings and for being a player manager Jesse Burkett]


- Played for a National League or American League team (ALL of the 19th century guys at least clipped a still-existing MLB franchise I came to learn) and also adds in Willard Brown as well who only had Negro League cards issued)


3 left to go

-Paul

[zoomfest]

Same here, but mine also involves collecting all (ok, most) of the HOFs usimg different baseball card sets. Takes some coordination and pre-planning. Close to finished.