Phillies at Blue Jays: August 15th to August 16th

2023 Chachi 1965 Topps Missing Links #12

2023 Chachi Series Previews #6

Tuesday and Wednesday 7:07
Rogers Centre - Toronto, Ontario

At the Ballpark:  It's $1 Hot Dog Night at the ballpark tonight and on Wednesday, the first 15,000 fans will receive a Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. replica jersey.

Phillies 65-54
2nd Place in the N.L. East, 11 games behind the Braves

Phillies Probables
Zack Wheeler (9-5, 3.74)
Aaron Nola (9-8, 4.49)

Phillies Leaders
Average:  Bryson Stott - .297
Runs:  Kyle Schwarber - 70
Home Runs:  Kyle Schwarber - 30
RBIs:  Alec Bohm - 74
Stolen Bases:  Bryson Stott and Trea Turner - 22

Wins:  Taijuan Walker - 13
ERA:  Zack Wheeler - 3.74

Strikeouts:  Zack Wheeler - 155
Saves:  Craig Kimbrel - 19

Blue Jays 66-54
3rd Place in the A.L. East, 8 games behind the Orioles

Blue Jays Probables
Yusei Kikuchi (9-4, 3.53)
Kevin Gausman (9-6, 3.04)

Blue Jays Leaders
Average:  Bo Bichette - .321
Runs:  George Springer - 62
Home Runs:  Vladimir Guerrero - 18
RBIs:  Vladimir Guerrero - 72
Stolen Bases:  Whit Merrifield - 22

Wins:  Chris Bassitt - 11
ERA:  Kevin Gausman - 3.04
Strikeouts:  Kevin Gausman - 183
Saves:  Jordan Romano - 28

2023 Virtual Phillies Wall / 2023 Season Summary Index / 2023 Chachi Set Checklist

Cards from the 1960s from the Annual SBWTABCTJ

1966 Topps #254

One of my collecting goals is to eventually own a full run of Phillies baseball cards from all the Topps base sets beginning in 1951.  With these three cards obtained in the annual Santa Brings Way Too Many Awesome Baseball Cards to Jim, courtesy of my Mom, I'm a little bit closer to wrapping up a complete run of Phillies Topps cards from the 1960s.

Ferguson Jenkins appeared in eight games with the 1965 and 1966 Phillies before the horrendous trade in April 1966 that sent him to the Cubs.  This is Jenkins' rookie card and his sole vintage Phillies card.  There would be few reprints of this card - without Bill Sorrell - in sets from the early 2000s, and Jenkins also received a Phillies card in the 2004 Topps Retired Signature set.  As an aside, the first time I ever realized that this future Hall of Famer had pitched with the Phillies is when I pulled his 1983 Topps Super Veteran card from a pack back in the day.

Jenkins' rookie card was one of a handful of older Phillies Topps cards I deemed to be unobtainable when I first started collecting many years ago.  Thanks to my Mom, it's now in my collection.

For what it's worth, this is Sorrell's only appearance on a Phillies card.  He appeared in 10 games with the 1965 Phillies, hitting .385 (5 for 13) as a September call-up.  He spent all of 1966 playing in San Diego for the Phillies Triple A team and then was selected by the Giants in November 1966 in the annual Rule 5 draft.  He earned a Giants Rookie Stars card (with Dick Dietz) in the 1967 Topps set and he reappeared in the 1971 Topps set with the Royals.

1965 Topps #446

This Art Mahaffey card from my favorite Topps set from the 1960s gets me to just six cards away from having a complete 1965 Topps Phillies team set.  I'm down to needing the Johnny Callison league league card and five high numbers.  This would be Mahaffey's final Phillies Topps card, as he was traded to the Cardinals following the 1965 season.

1967 Topps #309

Finally, this is my favorite card from the 1967 Topps set, featuring two of the best Phillies players from that era on the same card.  Two of my favorite cards growing up were the multi-player Phillies cards of Pete Rose, Mike Schmidt and Larry Bowa in the 1981 Fleer set and the Schmidt and Rose card in the 1982 Donruss set.  The first time I saw either of those cards, I thought I had hit the Phillies baseball card gold mine.  I imagine collectors finding this Richie Allen and Callison card in packs of their 1967 Topps felt the same way.

If you're keeping track at home, my Mom found eight of the ten cards that had been on my Ten Most Wanted - Vintage list and gave them to me for Christmas.  And no, you can't have her.

2014 Santa Brings Way Too Many Awesome Baseball Cards to Jim
Part 1 - 1952 Bowman and 1953 Bowman Color Richie Ashburn
Part 2 - 1950 Bowman Roberts, 1951 Topps Blue Backs Jones, 1955 Bowman Wyrostek