Card Size: 3 1/4" x 5 1/2"
Description: As was the case with all Phillies photocards issued throughout the 1970s, these cards feature a black and white photo with the players' name below. The cards are unnumbered. In 1976, all photos feature hatless portraits of the players, coaches or manager, which makes them somewhat easy to identify. The backs of the cards are blank and there's no indication on the cards themselves that they're from 1976. Some of the cards contain blue facsimile autographs, as noted on the checklist below.
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):
Variations/Rarities: I had originally listed a Jay Johnstone variation, featuring the outfielder kneeling, but I believe that's a 1975 variation so it will be listed with that set.
Also See: 1976 SSPC Phillies - Part One and Part Two; 1976 Isalay's/Sweet William Discs Phillies; 1976 Hostess Phillies; 1976 Oklahoma City 89ers Team Set
Complete Standard Checklist (Unnumbered, presented here alphabetically):
1. Dick Allen 2. Carroll Beringer CO 3. Bob Boone 4. Larry Bowa 5. Ollie Brown 6. Steve Carlton (auto) 7. Dave Cash 8. Larry Christenson 9. Billy DeMars CO 10. Gene Garber |
11. Terry Harmon 12. Jay Johnstone (auto) 13. Jim Kaat (auto) 14. Jim Lonborg 15. Greg Luzinski (auto) 16. Garry Maddox 17. Jerry Martin 18. Tim McCarver 19. Tug McGraw 20. Johnny Oates |
21. Danny Ozark MG 22. Ron Reed 23. Ray Rippelmeyer CO (auto) 24. Mike Schmidt 25. Ron Schueler 26. Tony Taylor (auto) 27. Bobby Tolan (auto) 28. Wayne Twitchell 29. Tom Underwood (auto) 30. Bobby Wine CO |
One and Only Phillies Baseball Card (0)
First Appearance in Phillies Team Issued Set (3): Kaat, Reed, Tolan
Returning Players in Phillies Team Issued Set (22): Allen, Boone, Bowa, Brown, Carlton, Cash, Christenson, Garber, Harmon, Johnstone, Lonborg, Luzinski, Maddox, Martin, McCarver, McGraw, Oates, Schmidt, Schueler, Taylor, Twitchell, Underwood
Manager (1): Ozark
Coaches (4): Beringer, DeMars, Rippelmeyer, Wine
Phillie Phanatic (0)
Broadcasters (0)
Returning Players in Phillies Team Issued Set (22): Allen, Boone, Bowa, Brown, Carlton, Cash, Christenson, Garber, Harmon, Johnstone, Lonborg, Luzinski, Maddox, Martin, McCarver, McGraw, Oates, Schmidt, Schueler, Taylor, Twitchell, Underwood
Manager (1): Ozark
Coaches (4): Beringer, DeMars, Rippelmeyer, Wine
Phillie Phanatic (0)
Broadcasters (0)
Omissions: I had originally listed Hutton within this set's checklist, but it always struck me as odd that his photo was the sole card in the set featuring a player wearing a hat. I believe the listing at The Trading Card Database is incorrect and either Hutton wasn't included in the set or I haven't tracked down that card yet. The Database uses Hutton's 1975 photo card for its listing. Investigating the 1976 Phillies Photo Album, which includes contemporaneous photos as those used for the photo card set, Hutton is sporting a beard. Since Hutton appeared in 95 games for the Phillies in 1976 and he was on their opening day roster, there's a possibility a bearded and hatless Hutton card exists.
Other than Hutton, the set does a great job of including all players from the N.L. East Championship winning team. The Phillies featured only 32 different players in 1976 and this set includes 25 of them, with no notable omissions, again other than Hutton. In descending order of games played, the set omits Rick Bosetti (13 games), Fred Andrews (4 games), John Vukovich (4 games), Tim Blackwell (4 games), Bill Nahorodny (3 games) and Randy Lerch (1 game).
Variations/Rarities: I had originally listed a Jay Johnstone variation, featuring the outfielder kneeling, but I believe that's a 1975 variation so it will be listed with that set.
Also See: 1976 SSPC Phillies - Part One and Part Two; 1976 Isalay's/Sweet William Discs Phillies; 1976 Hostess Phillies; 1976 Oklahoma City 89ers Team Set
This set was originally featured in a post back in January 2015, and I'm going to slowly go through some of these team issued set posts and update them with new information gleaned (if any) over the past five years.
1 comment:
Beautiful cards. I don't have any of the Phillies photo cards until the early 90s.
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