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HOF Earliest Checklist

Checklist and images of the earliest cards and photos for each member of the Major League Baseball HOF.

Note that most of these cards/photos are not mine. They are images I have culled from the internet or that were provided from hobby colleagues over several decades of research and collaboration.

Click on any player listed and you will be taken to a folder with additional images.

Please email me at h2oya311@yahoo.com with any proposed edits and/or missing images to aid in this research.

Special thanks must go to a few hobby friends who have helped me immensely with this project through their extensive early and/or ongoing research, including Phil Garry, Kevin Struss, and Deron Dixon. Thanks also to any and all who have contributed photos to help make this endeavor work!

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Henry “Hank” Aaron
1.Henry “Hank” Aaron
  • 1952 Indianapolis Clowns Postcard
  • 1952 Celluloid Printer's Plate (Indianapolis Clowns uniform)
  • 1952 Original Snapshot Photos (before boarding train to join Boston Braves) (x2)
  • 1952 Eau Claire Bears Team Photo
  • 1953 Press Photo (Jacksonville Braves uniform)
  • c1953 William Jacobellis Contact Proof (Jacksonville Braves uniform)
  • 1953 Wire Photo with Geragthy - Type 3 (Jacksonville Braves uniform)
  • 1953-1954 Type 1 Press Photo - Puerto Rico "Caguas" Championship Team
  • 1953-54 Caguas Team Composite Photo
  • 1953-54 Puerto Rico Caguas “Championship” Team Composite Photo
  • 1953-54 Marshall Merrell Braves
  • 1954 Topps
  • 1954 Johnston Cookies
  • 1954-56 Spic & Span Braves Postcard
  • 1954 Original Photo (Spring Training)
  • 1954 Milwaukee Braves Team Photo
  • 1947-66 Exhibits
  • 1950s Don Wingfield Original Photo
  • 19 Items
    Shared Album
    1851 Visits
    Grover "'Ol Pete" Alexander
    2.Grover "'Ol Pete" Alexander
  • 1911 Sporting Life Magazine Cover - 9/16/11
  • 1909-13 (1911) M101-2 Sporting News Supplements - 11/23/11
  • 1909-13 (1911) M101-2 Sporting News Supplements ("Do You Want" ad back) - 11/23/11
  • 1911 Press Photo (Paul Thompson) (x3)
  • c1911 Press Photo (x2)
  • c1911 George Grantham Bain Photo
  • 1910s Press Photo
  • 1912 L1 Leather
  • 1912 S81 Silks
  • 1912 Crack Batteries Notebook (w/ Dooin)
  • 1913 National Game
  • 1913-14 Tom Barker Game
  • 1910s Baseball Stars Notebook
  • 1910s George Grantham Bain Photo
  • 17 Items
    Shared Album
    1493 Visits
    Richard "Dick" Allen
    3.Richard "Dick" Allen
  • 1964 Philadelphia Phillies Team Issue Photocard
  • 1964 Topps
  • 2 Items
    Shared Album
    265 Visits
    Roberto "Robbie" Alomar
    4.Roberto "Robbie" Alomar
  • 1987 Rock's Wichita Pilots
  • 1987 Texas League All-Stars
  • 1988 ProCards Las Vegas Stars
  • 1988 Donruss
  • 1988 Donruss Baseball's Best
  • 1988 Donruss Rookies
  • 1988 Fleer Update
  • 1988 Fleer Update Glossy
  • 1988 Leaf
  • 1988 Score Rookie/Traded
  • 1988 Score Rookie/Traded Glossy
  • 1988 Topps Traded
  • 1988 Topps Traded Tiffany
  • 1988 Smokey the Bear Postcard
  • 1988 Broder Rookies Series II #17
  • 1988 Broder Rookies Series III #8
  • 1988 Broder Rookies Series IV #2
  • 1988 Broder Rookies Series IV #18
  • 18 Items
    Shared Album
    1938 Visits
    Walter "Walt" Alston
    5.Walter "Walt" Alston
  • 1936 George Burke Stamp
  • 1936 George Burke Film Negative
  • 1936 Press Photo
  • 1936 George Burke Photo Postcard
  • 1937 Uncatalogued Rochester Red Wings #17
  • 1937 Rochester Team Premium
  • 1952 Parkhurst (*first card as manager)
  • 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers Team Issue Picture Pack (World Series)
  • 1956 Topps
  • 9 Items
    Shared Album
    912 Visits
    George "Sparky" Anderson
    6.George "Sparky" Anderson
  • 1956 Original Photo (Rosabell Plumbers uniform)
  • 1956 Press Photo
  • 1958 LaPatrie Album Sportif Les Royaux
  • 1958 Montreal Team Photo
  • 1959 Topps
  • 1959 JD McCarthy Postcard
  • 1959 Philadelphia Phillies Team Issue Photo
  • 1959 Jim Rowe Postcard
  • 1959 Postcard
  • 1966 Foremost Milk St. Petersburg Cardinals (*first card as manager)
  • 1970 Cincinnati Reds Team Issue Postcard
  • 11 Items
    Shared Album
    1042 Visits
    Adrian "Cap" Anson
    7.Adrian "Cap" Anson
  • 1866-67 Notre Dame Team Photo
  • 1867-68 Notre Dame Brothers Team CDV (Unmounted)
  • 1869 Marshalltown Team Cabinet
  • 1869 Notre Dame Team CDV (unconfirmed)
  • 1871 GW Barnes Forest City (Rockford) Team Composite CDV
  • 1871 J.A. Pierce Forest City (Rockford) BB Club Team Composite CDV
  • 1872 CDV/Trade Card (unconfirmed)
  • 1872 Wright & Gould Athletic BBC Team Composite
  • 1873 Daily Graphic Philadelphia Team Composite Woodcut
  • 1874 Suddard's and Fennemore Cabinet
  • 1874 Harper's Weekly Woodcut Team Composite (B&W)
  • 1874 Harper's Weekly Woodcut Team Composite (Colorized)
  • 1874 Athletics Team Cabinet
  • 1876 Chicago White Stockings Large-Format Display Print
  • 1878 Robinson & Roe Cabinet - Black Border
  • 1878 Robinson & Roe Cabinet - White Bottom Border
  • 1879 Robinson Studio Chicago Team Cabinet
  • 1880 Robinson & Roe Chicago White Stockings Team Cabinet
  • 1882 Chicago Photographic Studio Team Cabinet
  • 1882 Harper's Weekly Chicago White Stockings Team Woodcut - 10/14/1882
  • 1885 Harper's Weekly Chicago White Stockings Team Woodcut - 10/17/1885
  • 1886 Lorillard's Chicago Team Cabinet
  • 1887 N284 Buchner Gold Coin (Hands Outstretched)
  • 1887 N284 Buchner Gold Coin (Hand on Left Hip)
  • 1887 Tobin Lithographs Baby Talk Series
  • 1887 Tobin Lithographs Color - Oh, Come Off!
  • 1887-88 N28 Allen & Ginter
  • 1888 N172 Old Judge (multiple variations)
  • 1888 N173 Old Judge Cabinet
  • 1888 N173 Old Judge Cabinet (Dogs Head)
  • 33 Items
    Shared Album
    2815 Visits
    Luis Aparicio
    8.Luis Aparicio
  • 1953-54 Caramelo Deportivo (Venezuelan League)
  • 1953-54 Photo (Venezuelan League)
  • 1953 Press Photo (w/ Luis Aparicio, Sr. - in Gavilanes de Maracaibo uniforms)
  • 1956 Topps
  • 1956 PM15 Yellow Basepath Pins
  • 1956 Press Photo
  • 1956 Press Photo - International News (Spring Training)
  • 1956 Press Photo - Associated Press
  • 1947-66 Exhibits
  • 9 Items
    Shared Album
    1257 Visits
    Luke Appling
    9.Luke Appling
  • 1921-30 M.L. Die-Cuts
  • 1930 Press Photo (x2)
  • 1931-32 "4-on-1" Exhibits (x2)
  • 1932-33 W574
  • 6 Items
    Shared Album
    935 Visits
    Richie Ashburn
    10.Richie Ashburn
  • 1944 Press Photo (Tilden uniform)
  • 1945 Utica Blue Sox Team Panorama
  • 1947 Utica Blue Sox Team Photo
  • 1948 Philadelphia Bulletin Stand-Ups
  • 1948 M114 Baseball Magazine
  • 1949 Bowman
  • 1949 Eureka Sportstamps
  • 1949 Philadelphia Bulletin
  • 1949 Philadelphia Bulletin (Full Page/Panel)
  • 1949 Lummis Peanut Butter
  • 1949 Sealtest
  • 1949 Richie Ashburn Day Ticket (Tilden, NE 9/26/49)
  • 1949 Philadelphia Phillies Team Photo
  • 1947-66 Exhibits (First Name Incorrect)
  • 1947-66 Exhibits (First Name Correct)
  • 15 Items
    Shared Album
    1456 Visits
    Earl Averill
    11.Earl Averill
  • 1922 Snohomish Team Postcard
  • 1924 Everett Seagulls Team Photo
  • 1926 Zeenut
  • 1928 Exhibits PCL
  • 1928 R315
  • 5 Items
    Shared Album
    998 Visits
    Jeff Bagwell
    12.Jeff Bagwell
  • 1988 Ballpark Cards Cape Cod Prospects
  • 1988 P&L Cape Cod League
  • 1988 Hartford Hawks Test Issue (unconfirmed)
  • 1990 Best Minor League
  • 1990 ProCards A & AA New Britain Red Sox
  • 1990 ProCards New Britain Red Sox (x2)
  • 1990 ProCards Eastern League All-Stars
  • 1990 Star New Britain Red Sox (x2)
  • 1991 Bowman
  • 1991 Classic
  • 1991 Classic Collector's Edition
  • 1991 Donruss Rookies
  • 1991 Fleer Update
  • 1991 Leaf Gold Rookies
  • 1991 Score Traded
  • 1991 Stadium Club
  • 1991 Stadium Club Member's Only
  • 1991 Studio
  • 1991 Topps Magazine
  • 1991 Topps Traded
  • 1991 Topps Traded Tiffany
  • 1991 Ultra Update
  • 1991 Upper Deck
  • 25 Items
    Shared Album
    1547 Visits
    Harold Baines
    13.Harold Baines
  • 1978 TCMA Knoxville Knox Sox
  • 1979 Iowa Oaks Police
  • 1981 Fleer
  • 1981 O-Pee-Chee
  • 1981 Topps
  • 5 Items
    Shared Album
    776 Visits
    Frank "Home Run" Baker
    14.Frank "Home Run" Baker
  • 1905 Pocomoke Team Postcard
  • 1908 Reading Pretzels Team Postcard
  • 1908 Reading Pretzels Team Cabinet
  • 1908-09 Carl Horner Cabinet
  • 1909 Real Photo Postcard
  • 1909-11 E90-1 American Caramel
  • 1909-11 Colgan's Chips
  • 1909 (1910-1912) Colgan's Chips Square "Proof"
  • 1909 E91-B American Caramel
  • 1909-12 PX7 Sweet Caporal Domino Discs (Larger Face) (x3)
  • 1909-12 PX7 Sweet Caporal Domino Discs (Thinner Face) (x2)
  • 1910 W600 Sporting Life Cabinets - Type 4
  • 1910 T206 (multiple backs)
  • 1910 E125 American Caramel
  • 1909-13 (1910) M101-2 Sporting News Supplements - 9/15/10
  • 1910 Sporting Life Magazine Cover - 9/17/10
  • 19 Items
    Shared Album
    1271 Visits
    Dave "Beauty" Bancroft
    15.Dave "Beauty" Bancroft
  • c1909 RPPC (Superior Red Sox uniform)
  • 1910 A.M. Vinje Superior Red Sox Team Postcard
  • 1911 Superior Red Sox Team Photo
  • 1912 Zeenut
  • 1912 Home Run Kisses
  • 1913 Portland Colts Team Cabinet
  • 1914 Zeenut
  • c1915 Original Photo (Bain)
  • 1916 D381 Fleischmann Bakery
  • 1916 M101-5 (multiple backs)
  • 1916 M101-4 (multiple backs)
  • 1916 BF2 Ferguson Bakery Felt Pennants (Brown)
  • 1916 BF2 Ferguson Bakery Felt Pennants (Sepia)
  • 1910s Original Press Photo (image used for M101-5)
  • 14 Items
    Shared Album
    1145 Visits