Who's your favorite pre-war & post-war players to collect?

[Wite3]

This is tough....
Pre-war would probably be Sherry Magee (with Jack Clements a close second).
Post-war is Steve Carlton (with Ashburn/Waitkus a close second/third).

Joshua

[slidekellyslide]

I really don't go out of my way to collect players, but if I were to pick one pre war player it would be Wahoo Sam Crawford.

Postwar I guess is Pete O'Brien...I have hundreds of his different issues..there are still some that are just impossible, which you wouldn't think since he played in the 80s and 90s. I also collect his game used bats and have three of them.

[Lordstan]

Pre war: Lou Gehrig.
I don't do any post war players specifically, but focus more on interesting items that are autographed.

[yanksfan09]

Pre: Babe Ruth
Post : Mickey Mantle

[smtjoy]

That's a super Clemente action shot, here is an early Photo of him from 1954 and a 70's one-

[ChiefBenderForever]

Prewar- Chief Bender and Lou Gehrig but right now cannot afford any Gehrigs and even sold one of the 34 Gehrigs to get more Benders.

Post War- Aaron, Clemente, Mays, and Rose. Have sold many Rose cards to get more Benders and will probably start getting rid of some of the Mays and Clemente but think will keep the Aaron cards intact. Not easy choices to make..............

[Writehooks]

Pre-war: Urban Shocker (baseball); Luther McCarty and Tommy Burns (boxing)

Post-war: Catfish Hunter (baseball); Frank Mahovlich (hockey)

[JLange]

Pre-war and Post-war: Bob Feller