2005 Phillies Team Issue

Number of Cards:  36
Card Size:  4" x 6"
Description:  Full color action photos are superimposed over the player's giant, gray uniform number floating in a digital looking sky.  As a aside, this is one of my least favorite team issued set designs in their sixty year run.  The horizontal card backs feature biographical information and complete career statistics.
How Distributed:  The 36-card set was available for sale at Citizens Bank Park throughout the season.

Complete Standard Checklist:  The cards are unnumbered, but I've presented them below ordered by uniform number.

3 - Todd Pratt 4 - David Bell 5 - Pat Burrell 7 - Kenny Lofton 9 - Tomas Perez 11 - Jimmy Rollins 13 - Billy Wagner 15 - Milt Thompson CO 16 - Bill Dancy CO 17 - Mick Billmeyer CO 19 - Gary Varsho CO 21 - Jon Lieber 22 - Jason Michaels 23 - Marc Bombard CO 24 - Mike Lieberthal 25 - Jim Thome 26 - Chase Utley 27 - Placido Polanco

28 - Rich Dubee CO 29 - Marlon Byrd 30 - Cory Lidle 31 - Ramon Henderson CO 33 - Jose Offerman 34 - Gavin Floyd 37 - Rheal Cormier 38 - Tim Worrell 39 - Bretty Myers 41 - Charlie Manuel MG 43 - Randy Wolf 44 - Vicente Padilla 46 - Aaron Fultz 48 - Pedro Liriano 51 - Terry Adams 53 - Bobby Abreu 63 - Ryan Madson Phillie Phanatic

One and Done (1):  Offerman
First Appearances (6):  Floyd, Fultz, Lidle, Lieber, Liriano, Lofton
Returning Players (20):  Abreu, Adams, Bell, Burrell, Byrd, Cormier, Lieberthal, Madson, Michaels, Myers, Padilla, Perez, Polanco, Pratt, Rollins, Thome, Utley, Wagner, Wolf, Worrell

A few years before he attacked former Phillies pitcher Matt Beech with a bat, Offerman received his one and only Phillies baseball card in this set.  The First Appearance designation is for players who have never before appeared within a Phillies team issued set.  These players may have already appeared on other Phillies baseball cards.

Manager (1):  Manuel
Coaches (7):  Billmeyer, Bombard, Dancy, Dubee, Henderson, Thompson, Varsho
Phillie Phanatic (1):  The Phanatic is shown doing his thing at the ballpark.
Broadcasters (0):  After three straight years of receiving cards, the broadcast team was shut out from this set.
Commemorative Cards (0)

Variations/Rarities:  As Rick points out in his comment below, cards of the following players were made available with black facsimile autographs - Abreu, Burrell, Lieberthal Lofton, Rollins and Thome.  Finally, a special blank-backed, thinner card stock card was created for Chris Roberson for a special signing during the season in the Hall of Fame Club.

• 80 - Chris Roberson

Also See:  2005 was the first year I created my custom baseball cards, affectionately named Chachi cards after our late, great dog.  See here for the set's official origin story.  (Scroll down for Part 1 and then work your way up.)
Resources:  Beckett.com; Phillies collector Rick (@rickphils)