Hall of Fame Baseball Cards

by Bert Randolph Sugar

This volume contains full-color, detachable facsimile reproductions, both front and back, of 92 authentic baseball cards.
Collectors, baseball fans and students of popular culture will treasure the pictures of these great players who were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Willie Keeler, Rogers Hornsby, Cy Young, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, John McGraw, Casey Stengel, Branch Rickey, Charles Comiskey, Joe Cronin, Babe Ruth, Earle Combs, Dazzy Vance, Lou Gehrig, Dizzy Dean, Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Hank Greenberg, Ernie Banks, Mickey Mantle, Warren Spahn, Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, and many more. Ninety-two of the 175 men elected so far to the Hall of Fame appear in this collection.
Called “the guru of sports collectors” ( Christian Science Monitor ), Bert Randolph Sugar is a noted editor and author. Besides numerous magazine articles, Sugar is the author of many books, among them The Sports Collectors Bible, Who Was Harry Steinfeldt? & Other Baseball Trivia Questions, and “The Thrill of Victory” (The Inside Story of ABC Sports).

Genres: Baseball, Nonfiction

16 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1978

About the author

Bert Randolph Sugar was a boxing writer and sports historian.

Reviews

[C. John Kerry · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is another one of Dover's books reprinting old baseball cards. The cards are from a variety of sources. Many of them (all of them?) are cards the normal collector is unlikely to see, let alone own.it is easy to tell these are reprints should someone think to remove them from the book and try to pass them off as the originals, and I am sure someone has had that idea. For one they are perforated and have a glossy coating on the fronts, which the originals don't. As well the words "A Dover Reprint" appears on the back. For those who would like to see what some of the earliest baseball cards looked like, or those looking to add something interesting to their collections, this is a nice volume to acquire. Happy reading

[Serge Pierro · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book features a wide range of cards from tobacco cards from the early 1900's up to the classic Topps series of cards in the 1960's. I remember owning the Roberto Clemente and Ted Williams cards. The backs of some of the cards, in particular the Diamond Stars cards from the 1930's, feature some interesting instruction and insight, while others, in particular the tobacco cards, just feature an ad. The cards are perforated in case you would be interested in removing them.