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Card Size: 4" x 6"
Description: The fronts of the photo cards once again feature full color photos with the player's, coach's or manager's name in white letters against a blue band. Scott Rolen's card celebrates his 1998 Gold Glove win with a picture of a Gold Glove on the front of his card. The card backs feature biographical information and complete career statistics.
How Distributed: The 36-card set was available for sale at Veterans Stadium throughout the season. For the fifth year in a row, there was no update set issued.
Manager (1): Francona
Coaches (6): Cisco, Cottier, Henderson, McRae, Mills, Vukovich
Set Composition: The entire 25-man opening day roster makes it into the set, along with catcher Tom Prince who began the year on the disabled list. Relievers Billy Brewer and Steve Montgomery also receive cards, although they began the season in Triple-A.
Omissions: It's fairly easy to piece together an imaginary update set checklist, as the injury prone 1999 Phillies team made fairly frequent roster moves and acquisitions throughout the season. Seven additional players suited up for the Phillies prior to the All-Star break, and an update set released in early July could have consisted of Joel Bennett, Joe Grahe, Robert Person, Cliff Politte, Steve Schrenk, Amaury Telemaco and Randy Wolf. On the day of the ALS Autograph Party and Auction, June 21st, Person, Telemaco and Wolf were all on the active roster.
Variations/Rarities: Fellow collector Rick confirmed there are no rarities to be found with this set's design, although in a comment to the original post for this set he mentioned there are a few variations available with facsimile autographs.
Also See: The Phillies produced three Stadium League sets, and these have proved to be somewhat difficult for me to track down.
How Distributed: The 36-card set was available for sale at Veterans Stadium throughout the season. For the fifth year in a row, there was no update set issued.
Complete Set Checklist (Unnumbered, presented here alphabetically with uniform number and position from the back of cards):
1. Bobby Abreu (#53 - OF) 2. Marlon Anderson (#16 - 2B) 3. Alex Arias (#26 - INF) 4. Gary Bennett (#14 - C) 5. Jeff Brantley (#45 - RHP) 6. Billy Brewer (#49 - LHP) 7. Rico Brogna (#2 - 1B) 8. Paul Byrd (#34 - RHP) 9. Galen Cisco (#43 - Pitching Instructor) 10. Chuck Cottier (#3 - Bench Coach) 11. Dave Doster (#15 - INF) 12. Rob Ducey (#25 - OF) | 13. Terry Francona (#7 - MG) 14. Ron Gant (#5 - OF) 15. Doug Glanville (#6 - OF) 16. Wayne Gomes (#61 - RHP) 17. Mike Grace (#44 - RHP) 18. Ramon Henderson (#59 - Bullpen Coach) 19. Kevin Jordan (#23 - INF) 20. Mike Lieberthal (#24 - C) 21. Carlton Loewer (#46 - RHP) 22. Hal McRae (#56 - Hitting Instructor) 23. Brad Mills (#9 - First Base Coach) 24. Steve Montgomery (#57 - RHP) | 25. Chad Ogea (#33 - RHP) 26. Yorkis Perez (#48 - LHP) 27. Jim Poole (#41 - LHP) 28. Tom Prince (#12 - C) 29. Desi Relaford (#8 - SS) 30. Scott Rolen (#17 - 3B) 31. Ken Ryan (#51 - RHP) 32. Curt Schilling (#38 - RHP) 33. Kevin Sefcik (#11 - OF) 34. Paul Spoljaric (#50 - LHP) 35. John Vukovich (#18 - Third Base Coach) 36. Phillie Phanatic |
One and Only Phillies Baseball Card (2): Poole, Spoljaric
First Appearance in Phillies Photo Card Set (13): Anderson, Bennett, Brantley, Byrd, Doster, Ducey, Gant, Loewer, Montgomery, Ogea, Perez, Prince, Ryan
Returning Players in Phillies Photo Card Set (13): Abreu, Arias, Brewer, Brogna, Glanville, Gomes, Grace, Jordan, Lieberthal, Relaford, Rolen, Schilling, Sefcik
Returning Players in Phillies Photo Card Set (13): Abreu, Arias, Brewer, Brogna, Glanville, Gomes, Grace, Jordan, Lieberthal, Relaford, Rolen, Schilling, Sefcik
I'm not counting Yorkis Perez's fairly rare photo card issued at the 1998 ALS Autograph and Auction Party as his first appearance.
Manager (1): Francona
Coaches (6): Cisco, Cottier, Henderson, McRae, Mills, Vukovich
Phillie Phanatic (1): The Phanatic gets a close up on his 1999 card.
Broadcasters (0): N/A
Set Composition: The entire 25-man opening day roster makes it into the set, along with catcher Tom Prince who began the year on the disabled list. Relievers Billy Brewer and Steve Montgomery also receive cards, although they began the season in Triple-A.
Omissions: It's fairly easy to piece together an imaginary update set checklist, as the injury prone 1999 Phillies team made fairly frequent roster moves and acquisitions throughout the season. Seven additional players suited up for the Phillies prior to the All-Star break, and an update set released in early July could have consisted of Joel Bennett, Joe Grahe, Robert Person, Cliff Politte, Steve Schrenk, Amaury Telemaco and Randy Wolf. On the day of the ALS Autograph Party and Auction, June 21st, Person, Telemaco and Wolf were all on the active roster.
- Stadium League SGA - This is a standard-sized, 9-card set with gray borders, given away on Fan Appreciation Day, October 3rd. The backs of the cards contain individual player highlights from the 1999 season.
- Stadium League Phillies Finest - This is a standard-sized, 9-card set with no borders and Phillies Finest written on the back. The 14,000 Phillies database entry for the set states the cards were given away as prizes to kids playing a card flipping game in the Fun Zone at Veterans Stadium.
- Stadium League Phillies Finest (5 x 7) - This is a larger version of the 9-card Fun Zone giveaway set, and the origin of these cards is (so far) unknown.
This set was originally featured in a post back in November 2014, and I'm going through these older team-issued photo card set posts to update them with new information learned (if any) over the past nine years.
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1998 Philadelphia Phillies Photo Cards / 2000 Philadelphia Phillies Photo Cards
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