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"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that it could be again”

Terence Mann (Field of Dreams)

The Baseball Hall of Fame Members pages provide images, photos of collectibles, and summary information pertaining to the members of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. This section of The Dinosaur Fan is, of course, totally unrelated to the rest of this site. It’s a guilty pleasure for an old man whose love of baseball and baseball card collecting never really became extinct. It’s my way of honoring my boyhood heroes and returning to baseball collecting in a virtual sense.

The Dinosaur Fan Hall of Fame Stats

as of: May 20, 2023

Hall of Fame Members

342

Prospective Members?

Total Hall of Fame Member Collectibles*

814,560

Top 50 Hall of Fame Members (Qty. of Items) *

Qty. of Cards	Hall of Famer
24,398	Ken Griffey
23,071	Cal Ripken
21,231	Derek Jeter
18,340	Nolan Ryan
17,501	Frank Thomas
17,166	Chipper Jones
16,812	Roger Clemens
15,500	Mickey Mantle
14,911	Greg Maddux
14,445	Randy Johnson
14,254	Vladimir Guerrero
14,199	Mike Piazza
13,664	David Ortiz Arias
13,344	Barry Bonds
13,207	Babe Ruth
12,414	Tony Gwynn
12,211	Pedro Martinez
11,990	Reggie Jackson
11,500	Rickey Henderson
10,745	Jim Thome
10,560	Ivan Rodriguez (Torres)
9,617	Ryne Sandberg
9,229	Tom Glavine
9,169	Mike Schmidt
9,053	Jeff Bagwell
9,022	Wade Boggs
8,826	Johnny Bench
8,697	Ozzie Smith
8,598	George Brett
7,959	Mariano Rivera
7,900	Stan Musial
7,875	Robin Yount
7,670	Paul Molitor
7,582	John Smoltz
7,379	Carl Yastrzemski
7,266	Roberto Alomar (Velázquez)
7,223	Rod Carew
7,215	Scott Rolen
7,105	Ted Williams
7,041	Craig Biggio
6,751	Barry Larkin
6,508	Carlton Fisk
6,327	Roberto Clemente (Walker)
6,025	Tom Seaver
5,944	Brooks Robinson
5,942	Frank Robinson
5,883	Hank Aaron
5,862	Steve Carlton
5,857	Andre Dawson
5,651	Larry Walker

Bottom 50 Hall of Fame Members (Qty. of Items) *

Qty. of Cards	Hall of Famer
3	Frank Selee
4	Alex Pompez
5	J.L. Wilkinson
5	Ray Brown
6	Sol White
6	Louis Santop (Loftin)
7	Bill McGowan
7	Bill Foster
7	Cum Posey
7	Ben Taylor
7	Andy Cooper
8	Nestor Chylak
8	Effa Manley
10	Willard Brown
10	Frank Grant
10	Barney Dreyfuss
11	Bullet Rogan
11	Turkey Stearnes
11	Pete Hill
11	Jud Wilson
11	Biz Mackey
13	Bud Fowler
14	Hilton Smith
15	Hank O'Day
17	William Hulbert
17	Joe Williams
19	Tom Connolly
19	Marvin Miller
20	Willie Wells
21	Billy Evans
21	Larry MacPhail
21	Cristobal Torriente
22	Jose Mendez
24	Bid McPhee
26	Morgan Bulkeley
27	Walter O'Malley
29	Deacon White
33	George Weiss
34	George Wright
35	Martin Dihigo (Llanos)
36	Henry Chadwick
36	Will Harridge
37	Ed Barrow
37	Pud Galvin
37	Amos Rusie
39	Candy Cummings
39	Jacob Ruppert
40	Bowie Kuhn
41	Ned Hanlon
42	Oscar Charleston
42	John Schuerholz

* The quantity of items (e.g., cards, stickers, studio photos) is primarily based on the set counts/listings contained in the Trading Card Database.

It is not too surprising that “modern” players have the most collectibles which is primarily due to the large number of companies/products providing cards since the 1980’s. Only seven players whose careers began before 1960 made this top 50 list (Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemente, and Bob Gibson).

Also somewhat predicable are the members of the Hall of Fame with the least number of collectibles. What you find are mostly Negro League Players (the three prominent Negro leagues all disbanded by 1960 and not many companies produced collectibles of these players), 19th century major league players (just about the only collectibles at that time were issued by a small number of tobacco companies and studio photographers), and executives along with umpires which generally do not have a “fan base” to motivate companies to produce collectibles of these individuals.

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