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View Poll Results: Percentage of Hall of Famer cards in your prewar collection
0% 5 3.40%
1-5% 15 10.20%
6-10% 14 9.52%
11-15% 3 2.04%
16-24% 17 11.56%
25-33% 7 4.76%
34-49% 9 6.12%
50-74% 12 8.16%
75-99% 49 33.33%
100% 16 10.88%
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Old 06-30-2023, 10:34 AM
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I have absolutely no idea. Never looked at it like that.
I suspect that there are a good number of collectors here who have so many pre-war cards that they cannot say how many cards they have, let alone how many fall into any category.
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I don't do commons. I have a few leftovers from when I was a kid building sets, and I will buy the occasional T206 portrait (Lobert, Leach, Steinfeldt to go with the other three, etc.), but I rarely acquire a non-HOFer. O'Doul is the only one I collect and he's in the Japanese HOF...
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I went with 100% because, aside from sets and 6-8 brown T206 old mills/brown Lenox, all I collect is HOFers, and specific HOFers at that.

Edited - Actually, I have 5-10 Joe Jackson items, and he is not in the HOF, (but I consider him a collectable HOFer), but still much closer to 100% than 75%
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Old 06-30-2023, 12:23 PM
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I don't collect any cards because the player is a HoFer. I collect in a half dozen different foci and collect HoFers along with everybody else in the focus. For example, pre-war Washington Senators (Nationals, etc.) which includes a fair number of HoFers: Griffith, Johnson, Rice, Harris, Goslin, Cronin, Manush (with cameo appearances by Mack, Coveleski, Speaker, and a few others). But post-war Senators is a HoF wasteland: Killebrew in '55-60, Herzog in '57-58, Williams as manager '69-71. Then there's first black players which is rich in HoFers: Ernie, Campy, Doby, Monte, Minnie, Frank, and Jackie (out of 19 players total). So, answering your percentage question is difficult.

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No idea? As a set collector I just don’t look at it that way, while the HOFer might cost more not any more important to me?
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100% As it is all Sam Crawford....

If I include golf cards it is also 100% on pre war.....as it is all Walter Hagen, Tom Morris Jr and Sr, Bobby Jones, Harry Vardon...and really no one else
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No idea? As a set collector I just don’t look at it that way, while the HOFer might cost more not any more important to me?
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I collect 1907 & 1908 Cubs, I am 26% HOF by card count. I also don't view cards as an 'investment' and keep my collection below 2.5% of my net worth. If I was an 'investor' I would have a higher HOF %.
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No idea? As a set collector I just don’t look at it that way, while the HOFer might cost more not any more important to me?
Same here
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I prefer HOF'ers but with some rare, type cards (a few collectors do the set) you take what you can get.

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