Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame Charter Class (2004)

This is an index to our postings related to the 2004 Philly Sports HoF class.

1952 Topps #216 Richie Ashburn

The 2004 class was the charter class for the Phillies Sports Hall, accordingly it has a lot of big names. 

Richie Ashburn
Steve Carlton
Robin Roberts
Connie Mack
Jimmie Foxx
Mike Schmidt

Tom Gola
Billy Cunningham
Wilt Chamberlain
Julius Erving
Paul Arizin (2001 Fleer Greats of the Game)
 
Chuck Bednarik
Bert Bell
Steve Van Buren
 
Bernie Parent
Bobby Clarke
 
Bill Tilden
Joe Frazier
John B. Kelly, Sr.
Harry Kalas
Sonny Hill
 
Phungo Phillies Sports Hall of Fame Master Index

Checker 2009 Phungo

The Original Phungo set was released in 2009. The 64 card checklist is presented below, card #31 is unknown - I may have never produced one.

2009 Phungo #1 Richie Ashburn 

1	Richie Ashburn	Phillies
2	BJ Upton	Rays
3	Thomas Jefferson	Statesman
4	Alex Gordon	Royals
5	Pat Burrell	Phillies
6	Ryan Howard	Phillies
7	Pedro Feliz	Phillies
8	Phillies Phanatic	Phillies
9	Jason Donald	Phillies
10	Manny Ramirez	Dodgers
11	Brian Roberts	Orioles
12	Matt Stairs	Phillies
13	Big Apple	Mets
14	Ernie Banks	Cubs
15	Kevin Millar	Orioles
16	Abraham Lincoln	Nationals
17	Aubrey Huff	Orioles
18	JC Romero	Phillies
19	James Bond Island	Landmark
20	Mike Mussina	Yankees
21	Carlos Delgado	Mets
22	Anibal Sanchez	Marlins
23	Scottie Reynolds	NCAA Hoop Villanova
24	Yankees Anthem	Yankees
25	Gregg Olsen vs Jim Thome	Orioles/White Sox
26	Chase Utley	Phillies
27	Rob Davis	Football Packers
28	Jayson Werth	Phillies
29	Kenny Mayne	Mariners
30	Shane Victorino	Phillies
31
32	Carlos Carrasco	Phillies
33	James Shields	Rays
34	Felix Hernandez	Mariners
35	Cole Hamels	Phillies
36	Greg Maddux	Dodgers
37	Chad Durbin	Phillies
38	Kyle Kendrik	Phillies
39	Brett Myers vs Paul LoDuca	Phillies/Mets
40	Paul Sorvino	Actor
41	Charlie Manuel	Phillies
42	Spike Lee	Director
43	Rollie Fingers	Athletics
44	Luke Hochevar	Royals
45	Pedro Martinez	Mets
46	Greg Maddux vs Ryan Howard	Padres/Phillies
47	Ryan Ludwick	Cardinals
48	Torii Hunter	Angels
49	Blue Jays Statue of Liberty	Blue Jays
50	Jamie Moyer	Phillies
51	Washington Monument	Landmark
52	CC Sabathia	Brewers
53	Grant Balfour	Rays
54	Brad Lidge	Phillies
55	Roger Clemens	Astros
56	Joe Blanton	Phillies
57	Johan Santana	Mets
58	Harry Kalas	Phillies
59	Rob Reiner	Director
60	Don Zimmer	Rays
61	Rudy Seanez	Phillies
62	Vendor	Vendor
63	Ryan Madson	Phillies
64	Phillie Phanatic	Phillies

Philly Sports Hall of Fame Index

Charter Class 2004

2005 - Class II
2006 - Class III
2007 - Class IV

2008 - Class V

1950 Bowman #84 Richie Ashburn image swiped by Ballpark Gum

Last week we featured Richie Ashburn's 1950 Bowman Card. Today we are taking a look at a bubble gum tin.

Ballpark Gum

Ballpark Gum is a novelty gum featuring ballgame related flavors Hot Dogs, Peanuts, and Beer.  That sounds a bit odd to me, if it's your thing check in at Perpetual Kid. I am not a gum guy and have never had Ballpark Gum and the taste of the stuff is not really why we are here today. 

I am concerned about the artwork. At first I thought it was lifted from 1959 Topps packaging.  
 

1959 Topps Wrapper (image swiped from Cardboard Connection)

It's close but I will let you decide that, as I examined the picture a bit more I realized why it looked familiar:

Ballpark Gum artwork (reversed) with 1950 Bowman #48 Richie Ashburn
 
I took the image on the tin and reversed it, Eureka! - The Ballpark Gum Tin artwork doesn't look very original at all. Look at the uniform number on the back the position of Ashburn's hands, The shadows on his face. The tin may be elongated a tad, but unless Ballpark Gum paid Bowman/Topps, I am thinking that image is plagiarized.


Sources 
Cardboard Connection
 

Swag from Arpsmith's Sportscard Obsession

This past week Team Phungo received a nice package of cards from San Francisco Giants Fan Arpsmith's Sportscard Obsession.

2013 Panini Hometown Heroes #158 Roy Halladay

Arpsmith came through with a nice bounty of Phillies related cards with a nice variety from recent sets. Interesting retro design for 2013 Hometown Heroes. Note that the Panini name is not on the front of the card at all. Sadly this year forward any Roy Halladay card will basically be a retro card or at least post-career.   

2012 Panini Cooperstown #59 Richie Ashburn

Late in 2012 Panini released a 170 card set of Hall of Fame players, broadcaster and execs called Panini Cooperstown. I believe the above Richie Ashburn card is from the Crystal Collection Parallel insert set - Serialed to 299, and seeded one in every 8 packs. The cards scan a little dark, it is a bit garish seeing the refractor treatment on a retro set cards of a 1950s era player.     

2013 Topps #US58 Kevin Frandsen

Gold Parallel fron this past years update set. The Phillies re-upped Kevin Frandsen to be a utility guy for 2014. He has been a decent back up and should be able to help out on a team that appears to be going forward with second year player Cody Asche at 3B this coming season.

 

More Swag from Arpsmith

As I noted above, a great variety of cards, including recent parallels and inserts. A couple of notable Vintage cards in there as well, including one of a Hall of Famer that we will feature in a future post.

Sources

Arpsmith's Sportscard Obsession

BaseballCardpedia

1950 Bowman #84 Richie Ashburn

I hope to feature more Vintage Hall of Fame cards this year, and who better to start with then Phillies Icon Richie Ashburn.

1950 Bowman #84 Richie Ashburn

This card represents Ashburn just two seasons into his Hall of Fame career. As the youngest member of the the Phillies 1950 Whiz Kids squad Richie Ashburn batted .303 and led the league in triples(14). Unfortunately this regular season success did not career over into the World Series. Ashburn struggled at the plate batting only .176 and Phillies got swept in four games.

For The Collector 
This is Ashburn's 2nd Bowman/Mainstream card and the earliest one in the Phungo Collection. It is in off condition with creasing and slight tearing on the front. I picked the card up via auction in March 2009 $16.49. This appears to be about where the card lives today. For the same price you could probably get the card in slightly better condition. A scan of recent ebay sales revealed the following pricing:

1950 Bowman
Always found the 1950B card backs annoying. They run counter-clock 90-degrees vs the A-side.

1950 Bowman #84 Richie Ashburn (b-side)


This is common now. Topps runs all their b-sides Landscape, while the front is typically Portrait (with a few landscapers mixed in). The trouble with 1950 Bowman is the card is so close to square (2 1/16 x 2 1/2 in) that it just feels like you should be able to flip them over and read them.  

Sources 
Ebay
baseball-Ref
Old Cardboard
PSA 

Phun Cards 1952 Topps #216 Richie Ashburn

I am a little bit amazed that I have really not given a lot of ink to Richie Ashburn on the Phungo Pages.  Although his playing career was long over before I was born, Ashburn was a large part of the Phillies experience for any fan of my generation.  He was the color analyst for Harry Kalas from the time I started watching the game until his death in 1997. 

Despite ranking up more hits then any other player during the decade of the 1950s and 2574 for his career Richie Ashburn was dropped from the Hall of Fame ballot in 1982.  Eventually he would enter the Hall in 1995 as a selection of the Veterans committee.  Ashburn led the National League in Batting average twice (1955,1958) and OBP 4 times (54, 55, 58, 60).  He was a 6 time all star selection and was a member of the 1950 Whiz Kids.  His #1 is one of 5 numbers retired by the Phillies. 

1952 Topps #216 Richie Ashburn

1952 Topps #216 Richie Ashburn (b-Side)


For the Collector

 

This is the 2nd Topps card issued of Richie Ashburn.  A recent ebay auction of a rough conditioned 52 Topps Ashburn finished at $9.62.  The Hi auction for a slabbed PSA 9 Mint card was $1710.32.  6 auctions of cards in pretty good condition concluded between $26 and $43. 

The above '52 Topps Ashburn was procured for the Phungo collection off an ebay auction for $18.97 in July of 2009.

More Richie Ashburn
1950 Bowman #84
1952 Topps #216

1959 Topps #317 (with Willie Mays)

2009 Phungo #1

1955 Topps Cards that never were (link to Bob Lemke Custom Card)