1965-22 Cooperstown Plaque Postcards Baseball Forum

Since the cards depict the plaque and do not have a specific team degination, the team listing should be as the plaque displays.

That is what I am using when in doubt.

Not to be difficult, but the plaques list all the teams the player played for.  For example: Hank Aaron, Milwaukee (NL/ Braves), Atlanta (NL) and Milwaukee (AL/ Brewers).  Shouldn't all the teams be listed? 

As a team collector, I'd be interested in getting a postcard from any player that played for my team, even if it was only for a year, or less.  If only the "primary" team is listed you wouldn't know that about a player.  (How many people know, or care, that Orlando Cepeda ended his career with 33 games for the Kansas City Royals in 1974.)

Of course, some players played on a lot of teams.  I don't know if there's a limit to the number of teams you could include.

The HOF designates the team by the cap / uniform that the player wears on the HOF bust.  That is what I am going by.  It is the only team that should be affiliated with these cards even though the card does list all of the teams the player played for.

Using your logic, cards with the complete stats of a player should have all of the teams that he played for linked to the card.

Made it to Al Kaline so almost half way.  Will do the rest tomorrow.

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Not true.  Hank Aaron's plaque has an Atlanta Braves cap, but the HOF lists his primary team Milwaukee Braves.  But the question of which team or teams should be listed can be cleared up by Admin.

Not really, because cards with complete stats of a player have a specific team listed on the card.

The HOF postcards do not have a specific team listed, although most, but not all, of the players have a team hat.

C2, what I meant is that the HOF decides on the team represented by the uniform on the plaque.  I only know this because of when Carlton Fisk went in. I think he asked if he could some how have both but the decision was out of his hands, therefore Boston is what he "wears". I am not sure why they designate a "Primary" team that differs from the uniform on the plaque, Aaron, Bunning, Fisk and who knows who else.

From the HOF Wiki page:

"While the text on a player's or manager's plaque lists all teams for which the inductee was a member in that specific role, inductees are usually depicted wearing the cap of a specific team, though in a few cases, like umpires, they wear caps without logos. (Executives are not depicted wearing caps.) Additionally, as of 2015, inductee biographies on the Hall's website for all players and managers, and executives who were associated with specific teams, list a 'primary team', which does not necessarily match the cap logo. The Hall selects the logo 'based on where that player makes his most indelible mark.'

Although the Hall always made the final decision on which logo was shown, until 2001 the Hall deferred to the wishes of players or managers whose careers were linked with multiple teams."