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

rats60 · #1 02-08-2025, 08:55 AM

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 · #2 02-08-2025, 10:28 AM

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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 · #3 02-08-2025, 10:35 AM

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 · #4 02-08-2025, 01:06 PM

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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...

Peter_Spaeth · #5 02-08-2025, 01:22 PM

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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...

John no, I just went off my 65 Topps cards, so if we count Paige, 40.

65 also has a number of HOF manager cards (some in as player, some as manager) -- Stengel, Hodges, Alston, Lopez, Herman, Schoendienst off the top of my head.

Balticfox · #6 02-09-2025, 11:52 AM

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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...

Here's a great picture of Satchel in a snazzy St. Louis Browns uniform:

It's a pity that his Topps 1953 card is just a boring head shot. It's a pity too that he didn't get any more cards because he didn't play in the major leagues through the rest of the 1950's. Given that his ERA was only 2.44 in four AAA seasons (1956-58 with the Miami Marlins and 1961 with the Portland Beavers), I think he was capable of pitching in the major leagues for a few more seasons.

Balticfox · #7 02-09-2025, 11:54 AM

So much for the auto picture size reduction feature that was theoretically implemented. Looks like I'll have to do it myself.

rats60 · #8 02-09-2025, 12:05 PM

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Satchel looks great in his St. Louis Browns uniform here:

It's a pity that his Topps 1953 card is just a boring head shot. It's a pity too that he didn't get any more cards because he didn't play in the major leagues through the rest of the 1950's. Given that his ERA was only 2.44 in four AAA seasons (1956-58 with the Miamii Marlins and 1961 with the Portland Beavers), I think he was capable of pitching in the major leagues for a few more seasons.

A 1953 Bowman Paige would have been amazing.

Balticfox · #9 02-09-2025, 04:52 PM

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Just curious...did you count Satchel Paige in that 39? I know he did pitch in one game in 1965.

I don't understand why Charlie Finley didn't extend his contract after that outing. Satchel Paige pitched three innings with one strikeout and zero walks while allowing zero runs and only one hit, that being a double by Carl Yastrzemski (who touched up just about every AL pitcher at some point during his illustrious career).

egri · #10 02-09-2025, 06:45 PM

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A 1953 Bowman Paige would have been amazing.

I wish Bob Lemke had done a 1953 Bowman Paige as one of his 'cards that never were'. As it is, the closest I could find was a 1951 Bowman Paige he did that was auctioned off by Collect in July 2019: https://collectauctions.net/lot-27220.aspx .

brianp-beme · #11 02-08-2025, 10:44 AM

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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 · #12 02-08-2025, 10:59 AM

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

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