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Card Size: 3 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Description: As was the case with all Phillies photo cards issued throughout the 1970s, these cards feature a black and white photo with the players' name below. All photo cards contain a blue facsimile autograph. A lot of the photos used here are repeats from the 1970 team-issued set. The backs of the photo cards are blank and there's no indication on the cards themselves that they're from 1971.
How Distributed: The cards were handed out to fans individually and supplied to the players in order to reply to fan mail or honor autograph requests. I could be wrong, but I don't believe the cards were ever available in complete set form.
Complete Standard Checklist (Unnumbered, presented here alphabetically):
| 1. Larry Bowa 2. Darrell Brandon 3. Byron Browne 4. Jim Bunning 5. Bill Champion 6. Denny Doyle 7. Doc Edwards CO 8. Roger Freed 9. Woodie Fryman 10. Oscar Gamble 11. Terry Harmon | 12. Larry Hisle 13. Joe Hoerner 14. Deron Johnson 15. Pete Koegel 16. Barry Lersch 17. Joe Lis 18. Frank Lucchesi MG 19. Greg Luzinski 20. Tim McCarver 21. Don Money 22. Willie Montanez |
23. Bob Pfeil 24. Ken Reynolds 25. Mike Ryan 26. Dick Selma 27. Chris Short 28. Ron Stone 29. Tony Taylor 30. John Vukovich 31. Billy Wilson 32. Rick Wise |
One and Only Phillies Baseball Card (1): Pfeil
First Appearance in Phillies Team Issued Set (5): Brandon, Freed, Koegel, Montanez, Vukovich
Returning Players in Phillies Team Issued Set (24): Bowa, Browne, Bunning, Champion, Doyle, Fryman, Gamble, Harmon, Hisle, Hoerner, Johnson, Lersch, Lis, Luzinski, McCarver, Money, Reynolds, Ryan, Selma, Short, Stone, Taylor, Wilson, Wise
Returning Players in Phillies Team Issued Set (24): Bowa, Browne, Bunning, Champion, Doyle, Fryman, Gamble, Harmon, Hisle, Hoerner, Johnson, Lersch, Lis, Luzinski, McCarver, Money, Reynolds, Ryan, Selma, Short, Stone, Taylor, Wilson, Wise
Manager (1): Lucchesi
Coach (1): Edwards
Omissions: Briggs is a notable omission, but see below for the possible existence of a Briggs photo card in the Variations/Rarities section. Other than Briggs, only four players appeared with the Phillies and did not receive a card in this set - Lowell Palmer, who pitched in only 3 games, along with September call-ups Mike Anderson, Wayne Twitchell and Manny Muniz. Once again, that's a fairly comprehensive checklist.
Variations/Rarities: The checklist found at The Trading Card Database lists two cards for Larry Bowa, with each card having a slightly different autograph placement. I'm not necessarily interested in these types of variations, but I'll list it here for completeness sake. One version features Bowa's autograph parallel to the bottom border of the photo, while the other version features his signature dipping down to the right. The same checklist omits the Doc Edwards and Pete Koegel cards, which I've added based on a a comment from fellow collector Rick left on the original post for this set.
Finally, fellow collector Steve notes his checklist for the set contains four additional cards. The existence of these cards would make sense, as it seems odd the Phillies would create a card for coach Doc Edwards but not the other three coaches. As noted above, Briggs isn't included in the standard checklist, while the player the Phillies acquired from the Brewers for him (Koegel) did get a photo card.
| Autograph Variation 1. Larry Bowa |
Potential Rarities? 1. John Briggs 2. Billy DeMars CO 3. George Myatt CO 4. Ray Rippelmeyer CO |
Resources: The Trading Card Database; Steve F. and Rick G.
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This set was originally featured in a post back in December 2014, and I'm going to slowly go through these team-issued set posts and update them with new information learned (if any) over the past six years.
