Baseball card hall of fame voting has begun

[yngray1967]

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[Chris Counts]

They let in Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe last year, so they've managed to do two things the other Hall of Fame has failed to accomplish.

[Rich Klein]

Dr. Beckett has done a couple of podcasts as he has enjoyed this concept as well.

This one ran today

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR...EegQIBBAF&ep=6

[Harliduck]

I think it's a phenomenal idea, love it. Feed the nerd inside me to rank what interests me. Very cool that I have a majority of the cards, and I am sure this will spur interest in completing the HOFers even though some may be impossible.

I took the Democrat view point and voted twice...

[yngray1967]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

Dr. Beckett has done a couple of podcasts as he has enjoyed this concept as well.



This one ran today



https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR...EegQIBBAF&ep=6

Thanks rich for voting.
I appreciate it.

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[NiceDocter]

Man its gonna be just like the real HOF..... first the greats, then the ones who dont belong..... I voted only for the Lajoie..... look at whats already in there, getting out of control fast. What next, every Mantle/Mays/Clemente/Jackie card out there? Junk wax will go in as an unopened case! LOL

[mrmopar]

Pretty much, like any other popularity contest.

What makes a specific baseball card worthy of "Hall of Fame" status outside the player shown? Rookie cards, short prints, high value to name a few, I am sure.

Does the image matter, such as the 53 Reese, 71 Munson, etc? Certainly appears it does, but it has to be a combination of a star and a great image. Will the 1973 Luis Alvarado make it simply based on the action shot with the very unusual background? What makes a 39 Play Ball DiMaggio all that special, besides the fact it is DiMaggio? It's rather boring looking actually, like a lot of the early Bowman sets. The 51 Doby is a great card, especially considering the rest of the set, but was he good enough to warrant HOF status with that exceptional card? Will Oscar "Mickey Mouse" Gamble ever qualify? how about Kurt "Bubble" Bevacqua? How iconic outside of the flipping, trading & bubblegum book is the very odd 52T Gus Zernial card?

The 1933 Delong, 1938 Goudey and 1951 Topps Connie Mack All-Stars were favorites of mine as a kid because of what I thought was over the top design and.or art work. At least 1 card from those sets belongs, so let me guess (Gehrig, DiMaggio & Ruth or one of the super SP modern AS cards.

Fun concept, but like the regular HOF, will be hotly debated for the choices.

Originally Posted by NiceDocter

Man its gonna be just like the real HOF..... first the greats, then the ones who dont belong..... I voted only for the Lajoie..... look at whats already in there, getting out of control fast. What next, every Mantle/Mays/Clemente/Jackie card out there? Junk wax will go in as an unopened case! LOL

[rats60]

Originally Posted by NiceDocter

Man its gonna be just like the real HOF..... first the greats, then the ones who dont belong..... I voted only for the Lajoie..... look at whats already in there, getting out of control fast. What next, every Mantle/Mays/Clemente/Jackie card out there? Junk wax will go in as an unopened case! LOL

How is it just the greats? No t206 Plank, M101-4/5 Ruth, 1933 Goudey Lajoie. Baltimore News Ruth and 1925 Exhibit Gehrig not even eligible? Yet a card in because it has a cuss word on it as well as several worthless junk wax era rookie cards. Who is voting in this? It is more like Harold Baines and Jack Morris being part of the inaugural class and Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson having to wait years to get in. It is already a joke.There are lots of great cards that they are completely ignoring. Certainly no collectors are part of this.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by mrmopar

How iconic outside of the flipping, trading & bubblegum book is the very odd 52T Gus Zernial card?

Hey, that's canon for us card nerds. But the prophet Gus forgives you and wants you know on behalf of the secret world government that everything is

[Chris Counts]

It seems to me that the Baseball Card Hall of Fame should be about the best cards, not the best players or most valuable cards. As for Ozark Ike's '52, I would put it in the first class of inductees. Is there a stranger card ever? I love it, and the book that inspired it, which suggests the balls are attached to the bat with postage stamp hinges, and the sign he is giving is an order for cinnamon doughnuts. "Goodnight Sibbi Sisti wherever you are ..."

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

"Goodnight Sibbi Sisti wherever you are ..."

The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book was the first baseball card book I ever saw. My uncle got me a copy in 1973 and I read it until it fell apart. It jumpstarted my interest in older cards. It is still a great read because it is about the cards, not the hobby, not the money, the cards.

"In 1955, there were 77,263,127 male American human beings. And every one of them in his heart of hearts would have given two arms, a leg and his collection of Davy Crockett iron-ons to be Teddy Ballgame."

It is still one of my all-time favorite cards; when I got my first one around 1977 I was ecstatic because it was in the book.

[G1911]

Teddy Ballgame has a lot of good-looking cards, but the 1955 is my favorite by a country mile. Perfect poses

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by G1911

Teddy Ballgame has a lot of good-looking cards, but the 1955 is my favorite by a country mile. Perfect poses

If you follow design theory at all, triangular composition is one of the most effective ways of presenting an image and this card has it. it conveys depth and balance. Your eye is drawn up and in towards the top center of the card. The 1954 #250, which is my second favorite card of him, is not as effective a composition because your eye is not drawn to a specific vanishing point:



it is more of an "11": two parallel tracks of vision. Now, the 1954 Wilsons Franks card that Topps made is a similar but more visually effective card because the single image draws your eye towards a single point: