Santa Tracks Down Two '80s Phillies Oddballs (#SBWTMABCTJ)

1986 Keller's Butter Phillies

1988 Drake's #17

I pride myself in having a fairly complete collection of Phillies baseball cards from the 1980s.  Cards from the major manufacturers - Topps, Fleer, Donruss and later Score and Upper Deck - are cheap and fairly easy to find.  But there are still a few oddballs from the decade that have eluded my collection.  I've already documented the 10 fantastic vintage Phillies cards my Mom added to my collection as part of the Santa Brings Way Too Many Awesome Baseball Cards to Jim (SBWTMABCTJ) extravaganza, but she also tracked down two cards from more recent times that I have never seen available for sale.

In 1986, packages of Keller's butter sold within the Philadelphia area came with one of six Phillies cards on the package.  I've been unsuccessful in adding the Mike Schmidt card to my collection since I first became aware of these oddballs back in 2011.  This Schmidt card completes my six-card set, and the other cards in the set are linked below.

1986 Keller's Butter Phillies
Steve Carlton
Von Hayes
Gary Redus
Juan Samuel
Mike Schmidt
Glenn Wilson

Another difficult to find (for me) food-issued oddball is the Von Hayes card from the 1988 Drake's set.  There are three Phillies cards within the 33-card set - Hayes, Juan Samuel and Mike Schmidt - and the cards were printed on the backs of Drake's snack products.  The Samuel and Schmidt cards have been in my collection for close to 30 years, but I could never track down the Hayes card.

Leave it to Santa (with help from my Mom) to track down these two cards and finally add them to my collection.  They're just little pieces of cardboard to most people, but to this day my Mom still knows exactly how to make me smile.

2011 Santa Brings Way Too Many Awesome Baseball Cards to Jim

Part 1 - Continuing a Tradition

Part 2 - 1971 Topps Set - 13 More Down

Part 3 - 1952 Topps Phillies

Part 4 - 1951 Bowman Phillies

Part 5 - Curt Simmons - Two New Bowman Cards

Part 6 - 1955 Bowman and Topps Phillies

2012 Santa Brings Way Too Many Awesome Baseball Cards to Jim
Part 1 - 1941 Double Play Litwhiler & May
Part 2 - 1963 Topps John Herrnstein rookie card (featuring Willie Stargell)
Part 3 - 1940 Play Ball Phillies - Part 1
Part 4 - 1940 Play Ball Phillies - Part 2
Part 5 - 1950 Bowman Del Ennis

2013 Santa Brings Way Too Many Awesome Baseball Cards to Jim
Part 1 - 1998 Upper Deck Scott Rolen
Part 2 - 1968 Topps Phillies Team Card
Part 3 - 1966 Topps Bob Uecker
Part 4 - 1955 Bowman Robin Roberts
Part 5 - 1965 Topps Johnny Callison
Part 6 - 1954 Bowman Richie Ashburn

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
Part 3 - 1995 Collector's Choice Hayes and 1999 Fleer Mystique Burrell

2015 Santa Brings Way Too Many Awesome Baseball Cards to Jim
Seven Phillies Cards from the 1950s Crossed Off the List

2016 Santa Brings Way Too Many Awesome Baseball Cards to Jim
Part 1 - 10 vintage Phillies cards added to the collection
Part 2 - 2 modern oddball Phillies cards find a new home