Baseball Cards of every Major League Baseball Hall of Famer

"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 card collecting in a virtual sense.

The Dinosaur Fan Hall of Fame Stats

as of: November 26, 2023

Hall of Fame Members

342

Prospective Members?

Total Hall of Fame Member Collectibles*

884,157

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

Qty. of Cards	Hall of Famer
26,528	Ken Griffey
25,020	Cal Ripken
23,003	Derek Jeter
20,077	Nolan Ryan
19,105	Frank Thomas
18,473	Chipper Jones
17,635	Roger Clemens
16,347	Mickey Mantle
16,183	Greg Maddux
15,443	Randy Johnson
15,391	Mike Piazza
15,145	Vladimir Guerrero
14,593	David Ortiz Arias
13,983	Babe Ruth
13,725	Barry Bonds
13,114	Tony Gwynn
12,983	Reggie Jackson
12,915	Pedro Martinez
12,872	Rickey Henderson
11,329	Ivan Rodriguez (Torres)
11,121	Jim Thome
10,746	Ryne Sandberg
10,234	Wade Boggs
9,992	Mike Schmidt
9,956	Tom Glavine
9,840	Johnny Bench
9,713	George Brett
9,620	Jeff Bagwell
9,495	Ozzie Smith
8,949	Mariano Rivera
8,785	Robin Yount
8,421	Stan Musial
8,280	Paul Molitor
8,198	Carl Yastrzemski
8,155	John Smoltz
8,061	Rod Carew
7,922	Ted Williams
7,618	Roberto Alomar (Velázquez)
7,436	Craig Biggio
7,381	Barry Larkin
7,363	Carlton Fisk
7,267	Scott Rolen
6,818	Roberto Clemente (Walker)
6,556	Andre Dawson
6,468	Tom Seaver
6,460	Steve Carlton
6,455	Frank Robinson
6,428	Willie Mays
6,426	Eddie Murray
6,380	Brooks Robinson

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
6	Louis Santop (Loftin)
7	Andy Cooper
7	Ben Taylor
7	Bill Foster
7	Bill McGowan
7	Cum Posey
7	Ray Brown
7	Sol White
8	Effa Manley
9	Nestor Chylak
10	Barney Dreyfuss
10	Frank Grant
11	Biz Mackey
11	Bullet Rogan
11	Jud Wilson
12	Norman Stearnes
12	Pete Hill
12	Willard Brown
14	Bud Fowler
15	Hank O'Day
15	Hilton Smith
17	Joe Williams
17	William Hulbert
20	Marvin Miller
21	Billy Evans
21	Cristobal Torriente
21	Tom Connolly
21	Willie Wells
22	Larry MacPhail
24	Bid McPhee
24	Jose Mendez
26	Morgan Bulkeley
28	Walter O'Malley
31	Deacon White
33	George Weiss
34	Martin Dihigo (Llanos)
36	Henry Chadwick
37	Amos Rusie
37	Pud Galvin
38	Ed Barrow
38	Will Harridge
39	Candy Cummings
40	George Wright
40	Jacob Ruppert
41	Ned Hanlon
41	Pop Lloyd
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 eight players whose careers began before 1960 made this top 50 list (Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Stan Musial, Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson, Babe Ruth, and Ted Williams).

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.