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Originally Posted by krantzbucks
Ken Sanders with the Cleveland Indians and with the Boston Red Sox where I have attempted to remove the autographs. Thanks for posting them Braves70
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Phillies fans know Ken Sanders as one of the few Pre-1981 Phillies mistakes by Topps Cards.. He's one of the few players back in the Monopoly Era that Topps enjoyed in the baseball cards market (1956-1980), where Topps was THE BASEBALL CARD COMPANY with no competition from other card producers, where a player was pictured on a Topps card as a Phillie, but never actually played for the Phils. Sanders' 1973 Topps card shows him as a Phillie, but he must have been acquired from another team in the 1972-73 offseason but failed to make the team out of Spring Training. Mistakes by Topps were few and far between as they also made the same mistake with Tom Haller in '73 who also never played for the Phils but has a 1973 card showing him to be a Phillie. These are the first such mistakes Topps made with Phillies "non-players" since 1955.
A notable mistake Topps made before '55 was the previous year. They issued a 1954 card of catcher Mike Sandlock, who never was a Phillie, but did play all that year for the Phillies' AAA affiliate. Sandlock had been a Pittsburgh Pirate in 1953 and had been around the majors since 1942. Today Sandlock is approaching his 98th birthday and he's listed by Wikipedia as the third oldest living major leaguer.