Negro League HOF cards? Best choices?

Jason19th · #1 10-07-2020, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Kenny Cole

Willie Foster is only in the Mallorquina set. To my knowledge, there is literally one single copy of his card. There is also an uncut Mallorquina sheet that has Foster (and Dihigo's rookie for that matter). For $50K, it can be yours.

Wow - had no idea that card was that rare

Kenny Cole · #2 10-07-2020, 11:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Jason19th

Wow - had no idea that card was that rare

Of the Negro Leaguers who have period cards (Lloyd, Charleston, Torriente, Mendez, Cooper, Dihigo, R. Brown, Dandridge, W. Brown, Irvin, Day, Smith, Mackey, Hill and Foster), I am missing only Hill and Foster. Hill has a total of 3 cards from two sets (1 Cabanas, 2 Punch) and Foster has the one. They are absolutely impossible.

paul · #3 10-08-2020, 02:50 PM

Kenny, the Mallorquina uncut sheet is no longer available for $50K. The price is now $80K.

Kenny Cole · #4 10-08-2020, 03:37 PM

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Originally Posted by paul

Kenny, the Mallorquina uncut sheet is no longer available for $50K. The price is now $80K.

LOL. Al bumped up several prices it appears.

bcbgcbrcb · #5 10-09-2020, 08:19 PM

An alternative way to go for collecting career contemporary pieces of Negro Leaguers that I have always liked is the team postcard/photo route. Oftentimes, you can get multiple Hall of Famers on a single item and cross off more than one individual at a time from your want/need list. These will usually save you substantial money over the one or two of a kind cards for guys like Pete Hill, Willie Foster, etc.

Bigdaddy · #6 10-09-2020, 09:59 PM

The 1931 Doble Aguila baseball cards have several Negro Leaguers including Hall of Famer Martin Dhigo. I do not believe that all of the players have been identified on the cards.

Belfast1933 · #7 10-10-2020, 08:03 AM

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Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

An alternative way to go for collecting career contemporary pieces of Negro Leaguers that I have always liked is the team postcard/photo route. Oftentimes, you can get multiple Hall of Famers on a single item and cross off more than one individual at a time from your want/need list. These will usually save you substantial money over the one or two of a kind cards for guys like Pete Hill, Willie Foster, etc.

The postcard/team card idea sounds like a great one.... I�m not familiar with these. Do you have a image or link you could share to help? Thx for the tip.

Jeff

Jason19th · #8 10-10-2020, 09:47 AM

The postcard idea will not be much more affordable. A true post card will cost a number of thousand dollars if there are hofers on it. You may want to check out the website for Hakes Auctions. They have had a number of auctions featuring negro league and Cuban postcards. You may also want to take a look at the RMY auctions for an idea of what negro league postcards and phots go for

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