(Greetings on National Eight-Track Tape Day. Although I have a fondness for many things '70s, the eight-track tape is something I never played in person or even saw. I think of it as an "early '70s" fad as I went straight to smaller-sized cassette tapes. Anyway, it's time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 280th in a series. Have a nice day!):
Have you ever gone through your collection, stopped on a card and said to yourself (because saying it to the people in your house would be pointless), "that looks nothing like a (your choice of team here) card."
I've done it with this card. Repeatedly. So much so, in fact, that I don't think there is any card that looks less like a Phillies card, while saying "Phillies" on it, than this one.
Gold and green are completely foreign to the Phillies' color scheme (well, except in 1938). I don't know who Topps thought it was fooling here, although I'm sure they didn't think much about it.
Ron Stone did appear in a green-and-gold uniform at one point. It was likely in 1966, the last time he played for a green-and-gold team. He appeared in 26 games for the Kansas City A's in 1966, then didn't show up in the majors again until 1969, with the Phillies. He played in the Orioles minor league organization in 1967 and 1968 (they don't wear green-and-gold either).
For my money, and excluding all those "now-playing-for" O-Pee-Chee cards, this is one of the more obvious "wrong uniform" cards of the vintage era (there are way too many "wrong uniform cards" of the modern era, thank you very much Upper Deck relic cards).
It has to be a little jarring for a Phillies collector to display this proudly among all the other crimson-clad Phillies players.
Then again, I can feel their pain. This card is in my Dodger binders:
Have you ever gone through your collection, stopped on a card and said to yourself (because saying it to the people in your house would be pointless), "that looks nothing like a (your choice of team here) card."
I've done it with this card. Repeatedly. So much so, in fact, that I don't think there is any card that looks less like a Phillies card, while saying "Phillies" on it, than this one.
Gold and green are completely foreign to the Phillies' color scheme (well, except in 1938). I don't know who Topps thought it was fooling here, although I'm sure they didn't think much about it.
Ron Stone did appear in a green-and-gold uniform at one point. It was likely in 1966, the last time he played for a green-and-gold team. He appeared in 26 games for the Kansas City A's in 1966, then didn't show up in the majors again until 1969, with the Phillies. He played in the Orioles minor league organization in 1967 and 1968 (they don't wear green-and-gold either).
For my money, and excluding all those "now-playing-for" O-Pee-Chee cards, this is one of the more obvious "wrong uniform" cards of the vintage era (there are way too many "wrong uniform cards" of the modern era, thank you very much Upper Deck relic cards).
It has to be a little jarring for a Phillies collector to display this proudly among all the other crimson-clad Phillies players.
Then again, I can feel their pain. This card is in my Dodger binders:
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Also I don't have either of the cards you pictured for my 69 & 70 sets. Maybe those are something to hunt for at this weekend's show.