"Unreleased" Team Issued Photo Cards for 2008 Alumni

Fellow collector Rick recently informed me that the Phillies produced 20 new Alumni Photo Cards for the express purpose of having them available for returning members of the 2008 World Championship team to sign at a potential pre-game autograph event last Sunday during Alumni Weekend.  For whatever reason, the planned autograph event was significantly curtailed with only Eric Bruntlett and Pedro Feliz stationed at one sole table for fans.

For the sake of completion, I'm going to add these cards to the checklist post found here, but I'll note that these cards should be considered unreleased and are generally unavailable to the collecting public.  I've tried contacting the Phillies to see if any extras of these cards could possibly be released into the wild, only to be met with dead ends.  Either the cards have already been destroyed (unlikely) or they've been stashed away in a closet within Citizens Bank Park for some future potential signings.

New Cards of 2008 Alumni

Mick Billmeyer CO Joe Blanton Eric Bruntlett Clay Condrey Roly deArmas CO

Greg Dobbs Rich Dubee CO Chad Durbin Pat Gillick GM Ryan Howard

Kyle Kendrick Jerry Martin CO Jamie Moyer Brett Myers Jimmy Rollins

J.C. Romero Carlos Ruiz Milt Thompson CO Shane Victorino Jayson Werth

In addition to these 20 new cards, here's a list of previously released Alumni Photo Cards featuring members of the 2008 team and the copyright dates on the cards.  The cards above for Eyre and Feliz were available prior to Alumni Weekend, but signed by both on Saturday night as detailed in this post.

• Pat Burrell (2008) - red pinstripes
• Pat Burrell (2012) - cream alternate uniform
• Scott Eyre (2011)
• Pedro Feliz (2009)
• Geoff Jenkins (2014)
• Brad Lidge (2014)
• Charlie Manuel MG (2011) - red pullover
• Charlie Manuel MG (2017) - red pinstripes
• Matt Stairs (2011)