I've mentioned in a few posts already how I began the process a few years back of creating Topps Phillies cards for those unfortunate few players omitted from the Topps base or traded series for the year(s) they wore red/burgundy pinstripes. To date, I have created a complete run of missing link players from 1980 through 1988. I got to 1989 . . . and completely stalled out.
There were 19 players who appeared with the Phils in 1989 who did not merit a Topps baseball card that year. I started creating the cards and then, to be perfectly honest, I completely lost interest in the project. I guess Floyd Youmans and Gordan Dillard and Jim Adduci will do that to a guy. (As a side note, it was very difficult for me to replicate the curvature of the player's name on the 1989 Topps cards. I found I had to rotate and adjust each letter to get the right look. This probably contributed to the abandonment of the project.)
In any event, here are the five cards I did manage to complete. The remaining 14 will hopefully be completed at some point. After all, how could we live in a world in which Steve Stanicek doesn't have a 1989 Topps Phillies card?
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And in case you're wondering, here are the 14 players still missing 1989 Topps Phillies cards: Jim Adduci, Dennis Cook, Gordon Dillard, Curt Ford,
Charlie Hayes,
Terry Mulholland, Dwayne Murphy, Tom Nieto, Randy O'Neal, Al Pardo, Mark Ryal, Bob Sebra, Steve Stanicek and Floyd Youmans.
