1980-87 SSPC HOF Baseball Forum

Tons of weird and off illustrations and fuzzy colored images (never mind a couple of floating heads in the set), but I guess that comes with the territory of being released in the early to mid 1980s. 

But its a servicable set if you are bulding low-end collections of a card of every HOFer, whether physical or here in cyberspace.  I'm just surprised with the way the Pro Football HOF and Naismath Basketball HOF have had modern releases (though I guess the last few years of this set are technically within the modern timeframe) that no one with the MLB licence has given this all encompassing project another try.

The Basketball Hall of Fame releases are lackluster at best. There are at least a dozen people in the basketball Hall of Fame that do not have a single card...I believe they are all coaches and "builders", to take a term from Hockey. The problem is that most of them are from the early days and nobody talks about them at all. There are some I'd never heard of until reading the list of Hall of Fame members, are some are college only people.

Thanks for letting me know!  I was in the planning stages of the Basketball Hall members phyiscal project (picking up random legends sets, etc) but stepped away from the hobby before plunging into that Panini set (prices I saw on eBay at the time were a bit much for my taste as well)

Mine as well. I was away from the NBA when that was released. What a mistake on my part. I have only two cards from the set, both purchased as singles. It included the first ever cards for the Harlem Renassaince, I believe. (one of the two I have)

I kind of like these sets, especially if clean and near-mint.

@Billy, I'm in the process of making a baseball MVP list, and noticed there really aren't too many cards representing some of the MVP seasons of the 1910s-1930s, which is odd considering how many well regarded names and HOFers are among them, and all the recent product out there for pretty much all of them! 

Anyway, considering I'm filling the holes there with cards of the day, its probably a good thing it never came to that in the physical collection project!  Not something my wallet, or sanity in terms of hunting the cards down, would be ready to take on! =;)

Its frustrating that the pioneer era is mostly ignored on cardboard, and appears to be in every sport. The NBA basically treats anything that occurred before 1979, with the exception of Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell, as not having existed. Hockey doesn't seem much better. Last year was the NHL's 100th anniversary but almost nothing was done to celebrate it. I was hoping it would allow me to add a Joe Malone card to my collection, but none were issued.

Old-time hockey.  Toe Blake.  Dit Clapper.  Eddie Shore.  Those were the greats.