Interesting card fact

[BBCgalaxee]

Unless I'm totally drawing a blank, there is no topps rc of a hall of famer pictured in a yankee uniform.

Not something you'd expect considering both legacy.

 

[Todd44]

Hard to believe, but I think you're right: List of Yankees HOFers with years with Yankees... [TABLE="width: 573"]
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[TD]Frank "Home Run" Baker[/TD]
[TD]1916-1919, 1921-1922 [/TD]
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[TD]Wade Boggs[/TD]
[TD]1993-1997[/TD]
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[TD]Yogi Berra*[/TD]
[TD]1946-1963[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Frank Chance[/TD]
[TD]1913-1914[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Jack Chesbro*[/TD]
[TD]1903-1909[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Earle Combs*[/TD]
[TD]1924-1935[/TD]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Stan Coveleski[/TD]
[TD]1928[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Bill Dickey*[/TD]
[TD]1928-1943, 1946[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Joe Dimaggio*[/TD]
[TD]1936-1942, 1946-1951[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Leo Durocher**[/TD]
[TD]1925, 1928-1929[/TD]
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[TD]Whitey Ford*[/TD]
[TD]1950, 1953-1967[/TD]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Lou Gehrig*[/TD]
[TD]1923-1939[/TD]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Lefty Gomez*[/TD]
[TD]1930-1942[/TD]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Clark Griffith**[/TD]
[TD]1903-1907[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Burleigh Grimes[/TD]
[TD]1934[/TD]
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[TR="class: historyBg1"]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Waite Hoyt*[/TD]
[TD]1921-1930[/TD]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Jim "Catfish" Hunter[/TD]
[TD]1975-1979[/TD]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Reggie Jackson[/TD]
[TD]1977-1981[/TD]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Willie Keeler*[/TD]
[TD]1903-1909 [/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Tony Lazzeri*[/TD]
[TD]1926-1937[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Mickey Mantle[/TD]
[TD]1951-1968 [/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Bill McKechnie**[/TD]
[TD]1913 [/TD]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Johnny Mize [/TD]
[TD]1949-1953[/TD]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Phil Niekro[/TD]
[TD]1984-1985[/TD]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Herb Pennock*[/TD]
[TD]1923-1933[/TD]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Gaylord Perry[/TD]
[TD]1980[/TD]
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[TR="class: historyBg1"]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Phil Rizzuto*[/TD]
[TD]1941-1942, 1946-1956[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Red Ruffing*[/TD]
[TD]1930-1942, 1945-1946[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Babe Ruth*[/TD]
[TD]1920-1934[/TD]
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[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Joe Sewell[/TD]
[TD]1931-1933[/TD]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Enos Slaughter[/TD]
[TD]1954-1959 [/TD]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Dazzy Vance[/TD]
[TD]1915, 1918[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Paul Waner[/TD]
[TD]1944-1945[/TD]
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[/TD]
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[TR="class: white"]
[TD]Dave Winfield*[/TD]
[TD]1981-88, 1990[/TD]
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[jbhofmann]

Next one won't break the streak...

 

[P_Manning 18]

Next one won't break the streak...

Me thinks this guy might break it tho

 

[ThoseBackPages]

JEETS!

 

[GF Yankees Fan]

Well it's a technicality but Tony Kubek is in the Hall of Fame as a recipient of Ford C. Frick Award and his rookie card is in 1957 Topps pictured as a Yankee.
tony kubek rookie | eBay
In terms of players elected for their playing careers though the good money is on Jeter being the first.

 

[MansGame]

Next one won't break the streak...

Hmmm I don't see the pin stripes in this picture but I could be wrong

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[matfanofold]

Interesting....

I guess the closest thing may be the 52 Topps Mantle, although not considered a true RC by the hobby purists, it is still considered his RC card (despite the 1951 Bowman) to many. However, I have a feeling you were eagerly anticipating such a response.

 

[predatorkj]

Wait, I'm not a vintage expert or anything nor am I a historical expert by any means. But what about whitey ford? Or scooter?

 

[predatorkj]

Interesting....

I guess the closest thing may be the 52 Topps Mantle, although not considered a true RC by the hobby purists, it is still considered his RC card (despite the 1951 Bowman) to many. However, I have a feeling you were eagerly anticipating such a response.

I thought about the bowman before I thought about the 52 topps but I quickly snapped to the fact that bowman wasn't owned by topps originally. As for people considering his 52 topps a rookie, not sure why.

 

[George_Calfas]

Wait, I'm not a vintage expert or anything nor am I a historical expert by any means. But what about whitey ford? Or scooter?

Ford is 51 Bowman

 

[ThoseBackPages]

Wait, I'm not a vintage expert or anything nor am I a historical expert by any means. But what about whitey ford? Or scooter?

Whitey is 51B
Yogi is 48B

 

[383astro]

Rizzutos rookie is 41 double play or 48 bowman or 49 leaf depending on who you ask

 

[uniquebaseballcards]

I'd go with:

as he was in the bigs in 1995. The '93 isn't a MLB jersey, the '93 Jeter looks like he's wearing underoos LOL.

 

[smapdi]

Very interesting piece of trivia.