1920-1929 Phillies Want List

1923 W515-1 #7

1921-23 National Caramel (E220)

1920 W519 Unnumbered

Having recently completed a 1930s Phillies Want List, I wondered what a 1920s Phillies Want List would look like.  I'll admit this listing is most likely not complete and I'll need to work on that, but here's what I've got so far.

1920 W516-1
Have - Adams
Need - Bancroft

1920 W519 Unnumbered - Have - Cravath

1921 American Caramel Series of 80 (E121) - #18 Donovan, #108 Williams
1921 Exhibits (W461) - #35 Konetchy, #47 Rapp, #49 Ring, #62 Williams
1921 Holsum Bread (D327) - Burns, Cravath, Donovan, Fletcher, Stengel, Williams
1921 Oxford Confectionary - Meadows, Williams
1921 W516-2 - Bancroft

1921-23 National Caramel (E220)
Have - Ring
Need - Henline, Hubbell, Meadows, Rapp, Williams

1922 American Caramel Series of 240 (E120)
Have - #196 Betts, #202 Meadows, #204 Peters
Need - #197 Fletcher, #198 Henline, #199 Hubbell, #200 King, #201 Leslie, #203 Parkinson, #205 Rapp, #206 Ring, #207 Snover, #208 Walker, #209 Williams, #210 Wrightstone

1922 American Caramel Series of 120 (E121) - Donovan MG, Walker, Cy Williams, Fred Williams
1922 American Caramel Series of 80 (E122) - Donovan MG, Williams
1922 Exhibits (W461) - #24 Fletcher, #29 Hubbell, #37 Meadows, #70 Walker
1922 Neilson's Chocolates V61 Type 1 - #59 Henline, #61 Wrightstone, #63 Peters, #92 King, #96 Hubbell, #104 Rapp, #107 Fletcher, #118 Williams, #120 Ring

1922 Neilson's Chocolates V61 Type 2
Have - Fletcher, Wrightstone
Need - Henline, Hubbell, King, Peters, Rapp, Ring, Williams

1922 W501 - #99 Walker, #100 Williams
1922 W573 Strip Cards - Betts, Fletcher, Henline, Hubbell, King, Leslie, Meadows, Parkinson, Peters, Rapp, Ring, Snover, Walker, Williams, Wrightstone
1922 W575-1 Strip Cards - Donovan MG, Ring, Walker

1923 W515-1
Have - #7 Walker, #23 Meadows

1923 W572 - #3 Alexander, #43 Henline, #48 Hubbell, #56 King, #75 Parkinson, #82 Rapp, #108 Tierney, #113 Walker, #117 Williams
1923 Willard's Chocolates (V100) - Alexander, Donovan MG, Henline, Keenan, Neal, Parkinson, Ring, Rixey

1929-30 Exhibits Four-In-One (W463-1) #12

1923-24 Exhibits (W461) - #19 Harper, #23 Holke, #47 Sand, #58 Wrightstone
1925 Exhibits (W461) - #41 Harper, #42 Hawks, #43 Henline, #44 Holke, #45 Hubbell, #46 Mokan, #47 Sand, #48 Williams
1925-31 Exhibits Postcard Back - #32 Klein, #36 O'Doul, #41 Ring, #47 Sand, #66 Williams, #68 Wilson, #69 Wilson
1926 Exhibits (W461) - #41 Bentley, #42 Friberg, #43 Harper, #44 Henline, #45 Huber, #46 Mokan, #47 Sand, #48 Wrightstone
1927 Exhibits (W461) - #21 Decatur, #22 McInnis, #23 Mokan, #24 Wrightstone

1927 Playing Card (W560) - Thevenow, Thompson, Williams
1928 Exhibits (W461) - #21 Leach, #22 Ring, #23 Sand, #24 Williams
1928 Harrington's Ice Cream (F50) - #15 Mitchell, #52 Williams
1928 Tharp's Ice Cream (F50) - #52 Williams, #60 McInnis
1928 Yuengling's Ice Cream - #52 Williams, #60 McInnis

1929-30 Exhibits Four-in-One (W463-1)
Have - #12 Williams/Whitney/Benge/Sweetland
Need - #11 O'Doul/Friberg/Thompson/Hurst

1929 Kashin Publications - #45 Hurst, #52 Klein, #66 O'Doul, #90 Thompson, #98 Whitney, #99 Willoughby

1910-1919 Phillies Want List / 1930-1939 Phillies Want List

1920 W516-1 #18 Babe Adams (or is it Bert?)

I added my first Phillies strip card to my collection recently - this 95-year-old card of former Phillies pitcher Babe Adams.  When Jefferson Burdick compiled The American Card Catalog, he designated cards from sets available in strip form with a W prefix, hence this set's designation as W516-1.  The 30 cards in the W516-1 set were sold in long strips and then hand cut by either the store owner or the strip's buyer.

But here's the thing about this card . . . that isn't Babe Adams featured.  According to his Baseball Reference page, Babe Adams was a pitcher who spent his entire 19-year career with the Cardinals (for 1 game in 1906) and then with the Pirates (for the remaining 481 games and 18 seasons).  Babe Adams never played for the Phillies and the picture on this strip card looks nothing like Babe Adams.

This is a card of Phillies catcher Bert Adams, who appeared in 240 games for the Phillies between 1915 and 1919.  There's a picture of Adams on the Philadelphia - The World War I Years blog (shown below) that matches up with the guy pictured on the strip card above.  Adams' biography from the Baseball Reference Bullpen also seems to confirm that this card features Bert and not Babe Adams.

I believe this would be Adams' sole Phillies baseball card and it's interesting to me that none of my reference material, including numerous books, websites and the Standard Catalog itself, list this card as an "UER" or an uncorrected error.  If there are any master collectors out there of Babe Adams baseball cards, you can skip this one.  Bert Adams master collectors however should track this one down.

Finally, my apologies if you've reached this site through a Google search for "babe strip."  This is not the site you're looking for.