Top 10 — Most Collected Players

[todeen]

I going to include up to ultra modern:
Cobb
Ruth
Gehrig
Mantle / or sub Jackie Robinson
Mays
Aaron / or sub Clemente
Henderson
Griffey
Trout
Ohtani (for international fame) / or sub Acuna Jr

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[ValKehl]

I'm really glad to see that Sam Rice isn't on anyone's list!

[brianp-beme]

I am approaching this from a strictly 20th century/Prewar point of view, and also from a 'Top 10 Most Desired' angle. Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio were considered for the list, but since they were both at the start of their careers when WW2 lowered its boom, I decided instead to include a couple of others (Hornsby and Foxx) in their place.

Babe Ruth
Ty Cobb
Honus Wagner
Joe Jackson
Lou Gehrig
Cy Young
Christy Mathewson
Walter Johnson
Rogers Hornsby
Jimmie Foxx

Brian

[Peter_Spaeth]

If the question is meant to include all collectors in the hobby, none of these lists is even close, with Tim's being the closest. Vintage is a small portion of the hobby now and probably has been for quite a while. Most people here are just listing their favorite players, predictably, but that is not the question. Joe Jackson in the top 10 collected players? Uh, no.

[mrreality68]

I would not take Wagner or Jackson off the list unless the criteria was changed. I understand based on prices cards are now tougher to buy. If the criteria was based on available to the masses then I could see potentially taking Jackson off the list I can understand since limited # and sets of cards resulted in low supply and high demand so higher prices. But there is a huge number of sets and cards that Wagner was in and there are still enough supply to make him having cards just as available and affordable as other stars on the list

[robertsmithnocure]

Here is my list made up of players whose careers started in the pre-war card era.

Babe Ruth
Ty Cobb
Honus Wagner
Lou Gehrig
Joe Jackson
Cy Young
Walter Johnson
Ted Williams
Christy Mathewson
Joe DiMaggio

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

If the question is meant to include all collectors in the hobby, none of these lists is even close, with Tim's being the closest. Vintage is a small portion of the hobby now and probably has been for quite a while. Most people here are just listing their favorite players, predictably, but that is not the question. Joe Jackson in the top 10 collected players? Uh, no.

Agreed.

I am not in a bubble on this and I thought last year BR did a decent research job to take all transactions into account. Unsurprisingly, the most veteran player was Trout -

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ll-card-market

This has likely changed a bit as modern changes with the winds, but the real talk is that my cards are nowhere near the masses due to cost and quantity. I think the question is not being answered, all of these are no where near the top 10 most collected players, but maybe somewhere in the top 10 most known players...likely that is still a stretch to the common collector under 35.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by JustinD

Agreed.

I am not in a bubble on this and I thought last year BR did a decent research job to take all transactions into account. Unsurprisingly, the most veteran player was Trout -

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ll-card-market

This has likely changed a bit as modern changes with the winds, but the real talk is that my cards are nowhere near the masses due to cost and quantity. I think the question is not being answered, all of these are no where near the top 10 most collected players, but maybe somewhere in the top 10 most known players...likely that is still a stretch to the common collector under 35.

Yep. People including the OP himself are answering the question as if it read, who are YOUR favorite players to collect.

Ebay search for PSA Joe Jackson: 414 results, and that includes some Joe Morgan/Sonny Jackson cards. PSA Derek Jeter: 15,000 plus results.

[Bored5000]

As the thread question is posed, I think the 10 most collected players would all have to be modern. The amount of of people capable of dropping four figures or more on a card for many of the pre-war names that have been mentioned in this thread is limited -- at least compared to the number of people able to pick up cheap cards of current players.