OT- what baseball season had the most HOFers in it?

[darkhorse9]

UPardon if this has been asked before.
What baseball season had the most players in it that went on to the Hall Of Fame.

I'm not asking about card sets, but actual seasons?

[bk400]

I'm going to guess 1957

[rats60]

There were 35 active Hall of Famers in 1957. In 1928, 1929 and 1930 there were 53 and that doesn't include the Negro Leagues.

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by rats60

There were 35 active Hall of Famers in 1957. In 1928, 1929 and 1930 there were 53 and that doesn't include the Negro Leagues.

Are you saying that 1928, 1929 and 1930 are the years with the most? Just wondering where you got the numbers from. I did a few quick Google searches and couldn't easily find anything to answer the question about which year had the most.

[Peter_Spaeth]

1965 has 39 without counting players who later became HOF managers (at least Joe Torre fits that category). But hard to imagine topping the late 20s with so many marginally worthy players getting in many years later.

[Harliduck]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

1965 has 39 without counting players who later became HOF managers (at least Joe Torre fits that category). But hard to imagine topping the late 20s with so many marginally worthy players getting in many years later.

Just curious...did you count Satchel Paige in that 39? I know he did pitch in one game in 1965. I've always thought how cool it would have been to have had a 1966 Topps Paige card made...

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by rats60

There were 35 active Hall of Famers in 1957. In 1928, 1929 and 1930 there were 53 and that doesn't include the Negro Leagues.

Too bad there is a lack of larger, well-distributed sets from this 1928 to 1930 run of years, because a set with most of those Hall of Famers would be an awesome one to collect. The 1930/32 W517 set (normally identified as 1931, see below link spelling out the more likely distribution dates for the two printings of this set) does the best job during this stretch:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=336159

32 Hall of Fame players (plus an additional card of each Ruth and Cochrane) in the 54 card set is pretty impressive...but imagine a 100+ card issue with something closer to 50 Hall of Famers. Alas, prewar collectors once again suffer from the baseball card issuing droughts of the past.


Brian

[Peter_Spaeth]

Smaller set, but almost every baseball player in US Caramel is a HOFer.

[conor912]

My mistake. I misread the OP. More like half that.

[bk400]

Originally Posted by conor912

1982 had over 90.

That's quite the cool surprise!

[brunswickreeves]

I exported all HOFers from Wikipedia and for their Career (years played), I checked off each year played by each player in all leagues, for a total by year of all those future HOFers playing in that respective year. My top totals by year are below (excludes Umpires, Managers, and Execs).

[darkhorse9]

Kind of sad that the most prolific seasons of Hall of Famers came when baseball cards were all but non existent.

[Mike D.]

Originally Posted by darkhorse9

Kind of sad that the most prolific seasons of Hall of Famers came when baseball cards were all but non existent.

It's a good thing the Hall of Fame standard has never been higher and we'll never see something like this 1920's debacle again.