1950-1959 Phillies Want List

1951 Topps Blue Backs #3

1952 Bowman #52

1953 Bowman Color #103

1956 Topps #180

1959 Topps #372

The Jim Hegan card featured above was probably my first ever Phillies "vintage" baseball card.  I think we bought this card on the fly back at a baseball card show at the Y, or maybe Memorial Junior High.  In any event, I remember marvelling at the "oldness" of this card.  Prior to obtaining this card, probably the oldest card in my collection was from the early '70s.  What strikes me now though is that relatively speaking, when I obtained this card back in 1981 or 1982 (probably), it wasn't really that old. 

By way of analogy, me getting this card then would be like a 9-year-old getting his hands on a 1987 Topps Rick Schu card now.  That's kind of scary, isn't it?

1950 Drake's - 10 Sisler, 12 Waitkus
1950 Philadelphia Inquirer Fightin' Phillies - Ashburn, Bloodworth, Caballero, Candini, Church, Donnelly, Goliat, Hamner, Heintzelman, Hollmig, Johnson, Jones, Lopata, Meyer, Miller, Nicholson, Seminick, Silvestri, Simmons, Sisler, Waitkus, Whitman

1951 Fisher's Bread Labels (Bread for Energy) - Jones, Konstanty
1951 Topps Major League All-Stars - Konstanty, Roberts
1951 Topps Teams - Phillies

1952 Berk Ross - Ashburn, Roberts
1952 Dixie Lids - Ashburn, Seminick
1952 Red Man Tobacco - 7N Hamner, 11N Jones, 18N Roberts
1952 Star-Carl Decals - 77A Ashburn, 77C Simmons, 89C Ashburn
1952 Tip Top Bread Labels - Hamner, Roberts, Waitkus
1952 Topps - 323 Church, 339 Meyer, 352 Drews, 357 Burgess, 362 Heintzelman, 383 Wilber

1953 Canadian Exhibits - 60 Ennis
1953 Northland Bread Labels - Ashburn, Ryan
1953 Red Man Tobacco - 3N Ashburn, 11N Roberts

1954 Dixie Lids - Ashburn
1954 Red Man Tobacco - 1N Ashburn, 12N Simmons, 18N Roberts

1955 Armour Coins - Simmons
1955 Red Man Tobacco - 15N Hamner, 24N Simmons
1955 Robert Gould All Stars - 6 Simmons, 18 Hamner, 22 Ashburn
1955 Topps Doubleheaders - 81 Schell, 91 Ortiz, 108 Qualters, 122 Owens, 131 Wehmeier

1956 Topps* - Complete
1956 Topps Pins - Negray, Smith, Wehmeier

1957 Swift Meats - 17 Ashburn

1958 Hires Root Beer - 10 Ashburn, 14 Post, 15 Repulski, 20 Hamner, 28 Simmons
1958 Kahn's Wieners - Post

1959 American Motors Home Run Derby - Post
1959 Armour Coins - Ashburn
1959 Bazooka - Ashburn

*Going after these cards seems like a bit of overkill.  My Dad and I have successfully completed the 1956 Topps set, taking over 20 years to put it together.  Do I really need a separate Phillies team set in another binder?  Yes.  Yes I do.  (Although it will probably take another 20 years to do so.) 

I haven't included Phillies cards from the ridiculously scarce issues like the 1955 Felin's Franks set or the 1958 Hires Root Beer Test Set.

1940-1949 Phillies Want List / 1960-1969 Phillies Want List