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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 card collecting in a virtual sense.
 
The Dinosaur Fan Hall of Fame Stats
as of: March 09, 2025
 
Hall of Fame Members
351
Prospective Members?
6
 
Total Hall of Fame Member Collectibles*
1,070,875
 
Top 50 Hall of Fame Members (Qty. of Items) *
Qty. of CardsHall of Famer 
29,538Ken Griffey
28,265Cal Ripken
25,243Derek Jeter
24,717Ichiro Suzuki
23,474Nolan Ryan
22,215Frank Thomas
20,438Chipper Jones
19,075Roger Clemens
17,955Greg Maddux
17,657David Ortiz Arias
17,525Mickey Mantle
17,495Mike Piazza
17,450Randy Johnson
16,379Vladimir Guerrero
16,058Babe Ruth
14,518Rickey Henderson
14,404Pedro Martinez
13,999Reggie Jackson
13,964Barry Bonds
13,952Tony Gwynn
12,817Adrian Beltré (Pérez)
12,761Ryne Sandberg
12,637Ivan Rodriguez (Torres)
12,078Mike Schmidt
12,019Johnny Bench
11,921Jim Thome
11,893Wade Boggs
11,313George Brett
11,153Tom Glavine
11,013Mariano Rivera
10,916Ozzie Smith
10,756Jeff Bagwell
10,390Robin Yount
9,535Paul Molitor
9,328John Smoltz
9,292Stan Musial
9,037Ted Williams
8,970Carl Yastrzemski
8,897Rod Carew
8,570Barry Larkin
8,412Carlton Fisk
8,296Todd Helton
8,295Joe Mauer
8,292Pete Rose
8,253Craig Biggio
8,193Scott Rolen
8,114Roberto Alomar (Velázquez)
7,988CC Sabathia
7,949Willie Mays
7,774Roberto Clemente (Walker)
    Bottom 50 Hall of Fame Members (Qty. of Items) *
Qty. of CardsHall of Famer 
4Alex Pompez
4Frank Selee
7J.L. Wilkinson
8Bill McGowan
8Sol White
9Andy Cooper
9Bill Foster
9Cum Posey
9Louis Santop (Loftin)
9Nestor Chylak
10Ben Taylor
10Effa Manley
10Frank Grant
12Ray Brown
13Pete Hill
14Barney Dreyfuss
15Bud Fowler
16Norman Stearnes
17Hank O'Day
17Jud Wilson
17William Hulbert
18Bullet Rogan
19Willard Brown
20Biz Mackey
21Hilton Smith
21Joe Williams
21Tom Connolly
22Marvin Miller
23Cristobal Torriente
24Billy Evans
24Larry MacPhail
26Bid McPhee
26Morgan Bulkeley
27Jose Mendez
29Walter O'Malley
32Deacon White
37George Weiss
37Henry Chadwick
39Ed Barrow
41Candy Cummings
41Pud Galvin
42Amos Rusie
42John Schuerholz
42Martin Dihigo (Llanos)
42Ned Hanlon
42Will Harridge
43Jacob Ruppert
44Willie Wells
47Billy Hamilton
47Bowie Kuhn
47George Wright
   
* 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 six players whose careers began before 1960 made this top 50 list (Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Stan Musial, 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.