Jim Rice baseball

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It has finally happened.  My posts over the last month have mostly been getting better and better.  The names bigger and bigger.  The values higher and higher.  Alas, there was no where to eventually go but down.  Don't get me wrong, adding any HOF baseball player to my collection is always awesome.  I recently added this HOF 09 inscribed baseball from Jim Rice.

This brings my Hall of Fame baseball collection to....a lot.  I don't actually know the exact list, so let's see what I have;
Baseballs:
Bagwell, Jeff
Baines, Harold
Bench, Johnny
Berra, Yogi
Blyleven, Bert
Boggs, Wade
Brock, Lou
Carew, Rod
Carlton, Steve
Carter, Gary
Cepeda, Orlando
Dawson, Andre
Doerr, Bobby
Fingers, Rollie
Fingers, Rollie
Fingers, Rollie
Fisk, Carlton
Gossage, Goose (HOF Ball)
Griffey Jr., Ken
Gwynn, Tony
Gwynn, Tony (WS Ball)
Hoffman, Trevor
Hoffman, Trevor (HOF Ball)
Hoffman, Trevor (02 ASG Ball)
Jackson, Reggie
Jenkins, Fergie
Johnson, Randy
Maddux, Greg
Maddux, Greg
Marichal, Juan
Mays, Willie
Mazeroski, Bill
Molitor, Paul (HOF Ball)
Morgan, Joe 
Morgan, Joe 

Murray, Eddie (HOF Ball)
Musial, Stan
Niekro, Phil
Palmer, Jim
Perez, Tony
Perry, Gaylord
Perry, Gaylord
Rice, Jim
Rivera, Mariano
Robinson, Brooks
Robinson, Frank
Ryan, Nolan (HOF Ball)
Sandberg, Ryne
Smith, Ozzie
Snider, Duke
Sutton, Don (HOF Ball)
Thomas, Frank
Thome, Jim
Yastzremski, Carl

Here are the baseball HOF members not on a baseball;

Aaron, Hank 8x10
Fisk, Carlton 8x10
Gwynn, Tony Jersey
Gwynn, Tony 8x10
Gwynn, Tony 8x10
Hoffman, Trevor 8x10
Kaline, Al 8x10
Mantle, Mikcey 8x10
Martinez, Pedro Topps Dynasty
Rizzuto, Phil 8x10
Williams, Ted 16x20
I did the math, that is 52 different Hall of Fame baseball players on items.

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