#340 Mickey McDermott - New York Yankees

Maurice Joseph McDermott
New York Yankees
Pitcher

Bats:  Left  Throws:  Left  Height:  6'2"  Weight:  170
Born:  April 29, 1929, Poughkeepsie, NY
Signed:  Signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent before 1945 season
Major League Teams:  Boston Red Sox 1948-53; Washington Nationals 1954-55; New York Yankees 1956; Kansas City Athletics 1957; Detroit Tigers 1958; St. Louis Cardinals 1961; Kansas City Athletics 1961

Died:  August 7, 2003, Phoenix, AZ (age 74)

Mickey McDermott pitched in parts of a dozen big league seasons between 1948 and 1961, mostly with the Red Sox.  A swingman early in his career, McDermott joined Boston's starting pitching rotation for good in 1953 when he won a career-high 18 games.  Perhaps due to his off-the-field struggles, he was dealt to the Nationals following the season with Tom Umphlett for All-Star outfielder Jackie Jensen (#115).  McDermott found some success in Washington for two seasons, and then was on the move again in early 1956 to the Yankees.  He'd appear in only 23 games and pitch 87 innings in his one season with the Yankees, and he'd see his only postseason action, pitching three innings of mop-up relief in World Series Game 2, won by the Dodgers by a 13-8 score.  McDermott pitched almost all of the next three seasons in the minor leagues, before making one last return to the majors in 1961 with the Cardinals and Athletics.

He'd keep trying to make a comeback to the majors, while battling his alcoholic tendencies, making minor league appearances through the 1964 season.  McDermott coached with the Angels (1968-69) and was hired as a scout by the Athletics during the time Billy Martin (#181) was managing the club in the early 1980s.  McDermott was the first scout to recommend Mark McGwire to Oakland.  In 291 big league games, McDermott was 69-69 with a 3.91 ERA in 1,316 2/3 innings pitched.

Building the Set
Summer of 1983 or 1984 in Millville, NJ - Card #37
This McDermott card was the last of the Original 44.  Given it's also the last player card in the set, and the last card in the set overall, depending on your feeling towards checklists, I'll repeat the story of how my Dad and I started collecting this set, one last time.

June 1983 - Ocean City Baseball Card Show

Technically speaking, my Dad and I actually began collecting the set in the summer of 1987, but this card (along with the other Original 44) first entered my collection three or four years before that.

I think it was either the summer of 1983 or 1984 when a shoebox of vintage baseball cards, football cards and a few non-sports cards arrived into my world.  The box contained about a hundred cards dating between 1950 and 1956, and for the most part, they were all in excellent shape.  A friend of the family was in the process of cleaning up and moving into her new house when she found the old shoebox and she wondered if the only kid she knew who collected baseball cards (me) would be interested in looking through it – maybe even taking the box off her hands.

She dropped the box off to my parents and asked them to have me look through the box and take what I was interested in. Turns out, I was interested in everything.  Up to that point, the oldest cards in my collection were cards from the early '70s I had obtained through trades or cards that my Dad had picked up for me at yard sales or small baseball card shows.  (My Dad had given me a few dog-earred and rough Topps cards – Juan Pizzaro and Jim Busby – a few years prior, and I completely forget how or why he had purchased these cards for me.)

My parents asked me to pick out a few cards from the box, and then we’d return the rest to the family friend.  Problem was, I wanted them all.  I really wanted them all.  I diligently and meticulously went through one of my price guides and determined the “value” of the treasure chest. I probably used my Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guide No. 4, edited by Dr. James Beckett, and I had no way to value the football or non-sports cards.  My memory is fuzzy, and I can't find the original tally, but I think I came up with the box being worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $300 to $400, which I knew my parents definitely did not have in their discretionary spending budget.  But they could tell how much I wanted those cards, as I lovingly studied each and every one and handled each as if it were some long-lost artifact.

I don’t know the exact details, but I believe my Dad went back to the friend and told her we’d take the whole box, but only if she let him give her some money for it.  I believe she was genuinely shocked that the box of old cardboard pictures had some value, and that someone was willing to give her cash for it.  My Dad shared the list I had created showing the “book value” of the cards and he mentioned how it was going to be close to impossible to get me to pick and choose which ones I wanted.  When all was said and done, the family friend, who had absolutely no intention of making money on this endeavor, walked away with (I think) something in the neighborhood of $100 for the whole lot.

Within the spoils were 44 cards from the 1956 Topps set – by far the most cards from any one set.  I studied them, I sorted them, and I pretty much memorized every detail of those 44 cards.  

And so a few years later, in the summer of 1987 while on a family vacation, I was giddy with excitement when we came across a few ’56 Topps cards in the Walker Gallery on the main drag in Cooperstown, New York.  My Dad and I studied the cards for sale and he casually asked me the question, “Why don’t we try to put together the whole set?” We bought four cards that day for $9.25.  Those cards, along with the 44 from the magic shoebox, became the basis for our 1956 Topps set.

The list below contains the baseball cards from the Magic Shoebox, as well as other "old" cards in my collection as of the summer of 1987.

The Card / Yankees Team Set
McDermott is likely wearing a Nationals' uniform and hat here, and a Topps artist was tasked with swapping out the W on his hat with an interlocking NY.  This card marks his return to Topps after exclusively appearing in the Bowman sets the prior two seasons.  The first cartoon panel on the back highlights the three lefties at the top of the Yankees' pitching rotation to start the season - McDermott, Whitey Ford (#240) and Tommy Byrne (#215).  Only Ford stuck around in the starting rotation, going 19-6 with a league leading 2.47 ERA, while Byrne made one less start (eight) than McDermott.  The middle cartoon panel highlights McDermott's hitting skills.  He was a lifetime .252 batter with nine home runs and 74 RBIs.

1956 Season

As mentioned above, McDermott joined the Yankees before the 1956 season.  On February 8th, the Nationals traded him and Bobby Kline to the Yankees for Lou Berberet (#329), Herb Plews, Dick Tettelbach, Bob Wiessler and player to be named later, Whitey Herzog.  Of his 23 appearances, nine were starts, and he was 2-6 with a 4.24 ERA.

Phillies Connection
McDermott spent part of the 1958 season pitching with the Miami Marlins, then the Phillies' top farm team in the International League.  With the Marlins, he was 3-7 with a 5.66 ERA in 23 games, including seven starts, and he'd depart the Phillies' organization without ever earning a promotion to the big club.

1950 Bowman #97

1952 Topps #119

1953 Topps #55

1954 Bowman #56

1957 Topps #318

Other Notable Baseball Cards
First Mainstream Card:  1950 Bowman #97
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (4):  1952-53, 1956-57
Most Recent Mainstream Card:  1991 Topps Archives 1953 #55

25 - McDermott non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 9/24/25.

Sources:  
Baseball Reference
Beckett Database

SABR
The Trading Card Database

Wikipedia

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Set Order: #339 Rance Pless - Kansas City Athletics / 1st Series / 3rd Series Checklist

Order Collected: #323 Willard Schmidt - St. Louis Cardinals / #225 Gil McDougald - New York Yankees

#337 Bobby Morgan - Philadelphia Phillies

Robert Morris Morgan
Philadelphia Phillies
Second Base

Bats:  Right  Throws:  Right  Height:  5'9"  Weight:  175
Born:  June 29, 1926, Oklahoma City, OK
Signed:  Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent before 1944 season
Major League Teams:  Brooklyn Dodgers 1950, 1952-53; Philadelphia Phillies 1954-56; St. Louis Cardinals 1956; Philadelphia Phillies 1957; Chicago Cubs 1957-58

Died:  June 1, 2023, Oklahoma City, OK (age 96)

Bobby Morgan was a successful back-up infielder, spending the bulk of his eight-year big league career with the Dodgers and Phillies.  Morgan earned International League MVP honors in 1949 when he batted .337 with 38 doubles, 19 home runs and 112 RBIs for the Montreal Royals.  Promoted to the Dodgers in early 1950, Morgan would spend the next several seasons as a back-up to Pee Wee Reese (#260), Jackie Robinson (#30), and Jim Gilliam (#280).  The Dodgers dealt Morgan to the Phillies before the start of the 1954 season, with Morgan taking over the regular shortstop job from Granny Hamner (#197).  He'd have his best seasons in the majors in 1954 and 1955 with the Phillies, but he'd slump in 1956, finding himself on the move over the next few seasons.  Morgan's last action in the majors came as one last pinch-hitting appearance with the Cubs in 1958.  He'd sign back with the Phillies' organization, playing five more seasons with their top farm teams and retiring as a player in 1963.

Morgan appeared in 671 major league games, batting .233 with 53 home runs and 217 RBIs.  He'd manage for three seasons in the Phillies' minor league system between 1964 and 1966, and would later serve as a scout for the Orioles, Royals and Twins.

Building the Set
January 10, 1999 in Raleigh, NC - Card #177
I indicate clearly in my notes this card (along with two others) was purchased at the Raleigh Sports Card & NASCAR Collectibles Show, not to be confused with the more benign Raleigh Sports Card & Memorabilia Show.  In any event, the Morgan card set me back only $6, which is an absolute bargain considering the card is in pristine shape.  I also added the Joe Collins (#21) and Johnny Kucks (#88) cards, also for $6 each.  Some of the cards in our set look as if they could have just come out of a brand new pack, and this is one of those.

I don't miss my time living in Raleigh, but I do miss these semi-regular baseball card shows held at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds.  As I'm primarily a Phillies collector, those dealers were always more than happy to unload their unwanted Phillies inventory on me and some of them would express genuine shock that I was trying to track down cards in the late 1990s and early 2000s of some very forgettable Phillies players.

The Card / Phillies Team Set
This blog is coming to a conclusion, and I've flipped to the last page in the set in my coveted 1956 Topps set binder.  That's Morgan in the action shot, and if this was a force play, I'm assuming the umpire is about to call the runner out.  The runner could be the Braves' Dave Jolly, the Giants' Hank Thompson (#199), the Cubs' Howie Pollet (#262) or the Pirates' Tom Saffell, as each of those players wore #16 in 1955, and I think the Reds and Cardinals had red uniform numbers on the backs of their jerseys.

This card marks Morgan's first appearance in a Topps set since 1953.  The cartoon panels on the back of the card highlight his success with the Phillies over the past two seasons, his promotion to the Dodgers in 1950, and his versatility in the infield.

Phillies Career / 1956 Season
The Phillies acquired Morgan on March 28, 1954 for Dick Young and $50,000.  Ted Kazanski was the club's opening day shortstop in 1954, but Morgan would start 123 games at the position, while also making six starts at third base and a pair of starts at second base.  In 135 games overall, he batted .262 with 14 home runs and 50 RBIs - both career highs.  In 1955, manager Mayo Smith (#60) moved Morgan to second base with Hamner sliding back to shortstop to start the season.  Morgan again had a solid year, even though Smith moved him back to short in mid-summer.  In 136 games, he batted .232 with 10 home runs and 49 RBIs.  With Kazanski at second and Hamner at shortstop to start the 1956 season, Morgan appeared in only eight games for the Phillies before a trade on May 14th sent him to the Cardinals for Solly Hemus.  Morgan settled back into a reserve role, playing in 61 games for the Cardinals and batting .195.

After the season, Morgan returned to the Phillies when the Cardinals traded him and Rip Repulski (#201) to Philadelphia in exchange for popular outfielder Del Ennis (#220).  Morgan's reunion with the Phillies was short-lived, and he played in just two games for the club in early 1957 before being sold to the Cubs on May 13th.  In 281 games with the Phillies, more than the 203 game he played for the Dodgers, Morgan batted .245 with 24 home runs and 100 RBIs.  He managed the club's Miami farm team in 1964 (64-75) and 1965 (67-75) before taking over the Tidewater Tides (58-81) in 1966.  His minor league managerial record with the Phillies was 189-231.

1950 Bowman #222

1952 Topps #355

1953 Bowman Color #135

1953 Topps #85

1958 Topps #144

Other Notable Baseball Cards
First Mainstream Card:  1950 Bowman #222
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (4):  1952-53, 1956, 1958
Most Recent Mainstream Card:  2011 Topps Lineage Autographs #RA-BM

22 - Morgan non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 6/7/25.

Sources:  
Baseball Reference
Beckett Database

The Phillies Room

The Trading Card Database

Wikipedia

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Set Order: #336 Ellis Kinder - St. Louis Cardinals / #338 Jim Delsing - Detroit Tigers

Order Collected: #88 Johnny Kucks - New York Yankees / #8 Walter Alston MG - Brooklyn Dodgers

An early post from The Phillies Room, with a cherished comment from my Dad

Blog Update

I'm five cards away from wrapping up this blog - three more player cards and then two checklists.  With summer plans in full swing, I'll be stepping away for a little bit, but then coming back to wrap up the final five posts.  I also want to go back and freshen up some of the older posts, and add pages with 4th Series and complete set reviews.  I envision the checklist posts serving as a way for me to pay one last tribute to these cards, a baseball card set with which I've spent nearly 40 years of my life with at this point.

#336 Ellis Kinder - St. Louis Cardinals

Ellis Raymond Kinder
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher

Bats:  Right  Throws:  Right  Height:  6'0"  Weight:  195
Born:  July 26, 1914, Atkins, AR
Acquired:  Obtained by the St. Louis Browns from the Memphis Chickasaws (Southern Association) as part of a minor league working agreement, before 1944 season
Major League Teams:  St. Louis Browns 1946-47; Boston Red Sox 1948-55; St. Louis Cardinals 1956; Chicago White Sox 1956-57

Died:  October 16, 1968, Jackson, TN (age 54)

One of the most underrated pitchers of his era, Ellis Kinder pitched professionally for 17 seasons, making his big league debut at the age of 31 with the Browns.  Given the nickname "Old Folks," Kinder first appeared with the Browns in 1946, enjoying mild success as a swingman for the second division club.  He was dealt to the Red Sox in November 1947, beginning an eight-year stretch as one of the best pitchers in the American League.  Kinder won 23 games in 1949, and had a 3.36 ERA in 43 games, including 30 starts.  He threw a career-high 252 innings that season, finishing fifth in MVP voting and earning The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year honors.  Converted to a full-time reliever in 1951, Kinder became one of the game's first closers, saving a league-leading 16 games in 1951 and a career-high and league-leading 27 games in 1953 while appearing in a then record-setting 69 games.  He'd depart Boston following the 1955 season, spending two more years with the Cardinals and White Sox before retiring.

In 484 big league games, Kinder was 102-71 with a 3.43 ERA in 1,479 2/3 innings pitched.  He threw 56 complete games, 10 shutouts and had 104 career saves.  Kinder was posthumously inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2006.

Building the Set
January 27, 2001 from Moorestown Mall Baseball Card Show - Card #227
For Father's Day in 2021, we attended my youngest son's piano recital and then travelled to the Moorestown Mall (in nearby Moorestown, NJ) for a baseball card show.  I don't spend a lot of time in malls, but I thought this one looked vaguely familiar.  As it turns out, I was at the very same mall 20 years earlier with my Dad for his 57th birthday.  We paid $60 for four cards for our 1956 Topps set, with the biggest purchase being the Harmon Killebrew card (#164) that set us back $38.  Based on my checklist at the time, we got a good deal on this card as I had the Killebrew card listed as one of the more valuable cards we still needed at a range of $60 to $100.  The other three cards added were this Kinder card, Carl Erskine (#233) and Frank Malzone (#304).

The Card / Cardinals Team Set
Topps did a good job transferring Kinder from a Red Sox uniform to a Cardinals uniform, but the unmistakable Yankee Stadium facade is still visible in the background.  The same main photo is used on Kinder's 1955 Topps card.  The cartoons on the back highlight Kinder's record-setting 69 appearances in 1953, and his successful 1949 campaign.  Topps' math is a little off in the final cartoon panel.  While he did start pitching professionally in 1939, he missed two full seasons in 1943 and 1945.  Kinder retired briefly in 1943, going to work as a pipe-fitter with the Illinois Central Railroad, and he missed all of 1945, serving a year in the U.S. Navy.

1956 Season

Kinder was sold by the Red Sox to the Cardinals on December 4, 1955, prompting a memorable going away party in Boston for the popular pitcher.  He began the season in the back-end of the Cardinals' bullpen, earning six saves but blowing two saves in the first two months of the year.  Despite the Cardinals decent record and Kinder pitching fairly well, he had his contract sold to the White Sox on July 11th.  The 41-year-old appeared in 29 games for the White Sox, going 3-1 with a 2.73 ERA and three saves.  For the season, he was 5-1 with a 3.09 ERA in 51 relief appearances with nine saves.

1950 Bowman #152

1952 Topps #78

1953 Topps #44

1955 Topps #115

1957 Topps #352

Other Notable Baseball Cards
First Mainstream Card:  1950 Bowman #152
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (6):  1952-57
Most Recent Mainstream Card:  1994 Topps Archives 1954 #47

29 - Kinder non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 5/31/25.

Sources:  
Baseball Reference
Beckett Database

SABR
The Trading Card Database

Wikipedia

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Set Order: #335 Don Hoak - Chicago Cubs / #337 Bobby Morgan - Philadelphia Phillies

Order Collected: #304 Frank Malzone - Boston Red Sox / #13 Roy Face - Pittsburgh Pirates

#334 Bob Miller - Philadelphia Phillies

Robert John Miller
Philadelphia Phillies
Pitcher

Bats:  Right  Throws:  Right  Height:  6'3"  Weight:  190
Born:  June 16, 1926, Detroit, MI
Signed:  Signed by the Philadelphia Phillies as an amateur free agent before 1948 season
Major League Teams:  Philadelphia Phillies 1949-58

Died:  November 27, 2020, Waterford, MI (age 94)

Bob Miller spent his entire career with the Phillies and was a key member of the 1950 National League Champion Whiz Kids.  Miller was a September call-up in 1949, and made the club's opening day roster in 1950.  As a swingman for the eventual pennant-winners, Miller was 11-6 with a 3.47 ERA in 35 games overall, including 21 starts.  He threw seven complete games, a pair of shutouts and saved a game for good measure.  Robin Roberts (#180) and Curt Simmons (#290) earned most of the accolades for the Phillies' solid pitching that season, but Miller was third on the team in wins and innings pitched with 174.  He'd slump over the next few seasons, spending parts of 1951 and 1952 back in the minor leagues.  In 1955, now a full-time reliever, Miller enjoyed perhaps his best season, going 8-4 with a 2.41 ERA in 89 2/3 innings pitched.  He'd retire as a player after trying to make a comeback in the Dodgers' organization in 1959.

In 261 career games, all with the Phillies, Miller was 42-42 with a 3.96 ERA in 822 innings pitched.  Miller went on to serve as the head baseball coach at his alma mater, the University of Detroit Mercy, for 36 years between 1965 and 2000.  His lengthy and successful stint as the Titans' head coach led him to be inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 1999.

December 26, 2003 - Dad opening presents

Building the Set
December 25, 2003 from San Diego, CA (Kit Young Cards) - Card #252
My Dad/Santa brought me nine cards for our set for Christmas in 2003, with all but one of the cards coming from his dealer of choice, Kit Young Cards in San Diego.  The Brooklyn Dodgers team card (#166) was the lone non-Kit Young Cards addition, as that card came from TemDee in Turnersville, New Jersey.  It was a strange mix of commons from Kit Young Cards, with no semi-star or star card to balance out the lot.  We were admittedly in a lull collecting the set, with only 18 cards added during all of 2003 and only six cards added, as Christmas presents, in 2004.

Pictures from the Christmas of 2003 show us opening gifts at my Mom's house on December 26th, which has since become a tradition for us.  So while the official set records indicate these nine cards were added on December 25th, it was most likely a day later I opened the cards while in Millville.

The Card / Phillies Team Set
This is the second Bob Miller card in the set, not to be confused with the card for Tigers' pitcher Bob Miller (#263).  Topps repeats the photo used for Miller's 1955 card here.  The cartoons on the back highlight his effective sinker ball, his role on the 1950 Whiz Kids team and his career-best 2.41 ERA in 1955.

1956 Season

Miller appeared in 49 games for the Phillies, going 3-6 with a 3.24 ERA and five saves.  The most used reliever by manager Mayo Smith (#60) throughout the season, he also made six starts, throwing complete games in half of those starts.  On August 25th, he threw a two-hit shutout against the Braves.

Phillies Career
Miller's hot start to his rookie season in 1950 helped bolster a starting pitching rotation already strong at the top with Roberts and Simmons. Through the first three months of the season, Miller was 6-0 with a 1.63 ERA in 16 games pitched.  He'd start Game 4 of the 1950 World Series, but wouldn't make it out of the first inning after giving up a pair of runs on an RBI-single by Yogi Berra (#110) and an RBI-double by Joe DiMaggio.  Miller wore #19 for all but his first three games with the Phillies.

1950 Bowman #227

1952 Topps #187

1955 Topps #157

1957 Topps #46

1959 Topps #379

Other Notable Baseball Cards
First Mainstream Card:  1950 Bowman #227
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (6):  1952, 1955-59
Most Recent Mainstream Card:  2011 Topps Lineage Autographs #RA-BMI

21 - Miller non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 5/23/25.

Sources:  
Baseball Reference
Beckett Database

The Phillies Room

The Trading Card Database

Wikipedia

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Set Order: #333 Rube Walker - Brooklyn Dodgers / #335 Don Hoak - Chicago Cubs

Order Collected: #333 Rube Walker - Brooklyn Dodgers / #12 Andy Carey - New York Yankees

#328 Preston Ward - Pittsburgh Pirates

Preston Meyer Ward
Pittsburgh Pirates
First Base

Bats:  Left  Throws:  Right  Height:  6'4"  Weight:  190
Born:  July 24, 1927, Columbia, MD
Signed:  Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent before 1944 season
Major League Teams:  Brooklyn Dodgers 1948; Chicago Cubs 1950, 1953; Pittsburgh Pirates 1953-56; Cleveland Indians 1956-58; Kansas City Athletics 1958-59

Died:  June 2, 2013, Las Vegas, NV (age 85)

Originally signed by the Dodgers before the 1944 season, Preston Ward made his professional debut with the Class D Zanesville Dodgers as a 16-year-old.  After a solid season with the Pueblo Dodgers of the Western League in 1947, Ward earned the job as the opening day first baseman for the big league Dodgers in 1948.  He'd lose playing time, and eventually his job, when Gil Hodges (#145) moved from behind the plate to first base for Brooklyn.  Ward was sold to the Cubs following the 1949 season and after playing in a utility role for Chicago in 1950, he'd miss the next two seasons while serving in the military during the Korean War.  With the Pirates in 1954, Ward collected a career-best 48 RBIs as a back-up first baseman and right fielder.  

He'd appear in a career-high 129 games in 1958, splitting time with the Indians and Ahtletics, and batting .284 with 10 home runs and 45 RBIs.  Ward hit three home runs in a game against the Orioles on September 9, 1958, and he'd retire from baseball following the 1959 season.  In 744 big league games, Ward batted .253 with 522 hits, 50 home runs and 262 RBIs.

Building the Set
August 13, 1989 in Bridgeton, NJ - Card #90
We went nuts at the Bridgeton Baseball Card Show in August 1989, buying 12 different cards for our 1956 Topps set, all at $1.50 a piece.  That's an impressive haul for $18!


I have no other information on the location of this show, other than it was held in the nearby city of Bridgeton, New Jersey.  What I do have however is the checklist I brought with us to the show.  I believe this is the second full checklist we carried around, having retired the prior version I created in 1988 and posted with the William Harridge (#1) card.

Just looking at this checklist brings back fond memories of finding the cards, deciding to make a purchase, negotiating a price and then finding a flat surface so that we could cross off the newest additions.

The Card / Pirates Team Set
Topps repeated the same photo found on Ward's 1955 Topps card for this card.  The cartoon panels on the back nicely summarize Ward's career, explaining his start with the Dodgers then his move to the Cubs and finally his super utility role with the Pirates.  By the time collectors were finding this card in packs of 1956 Topps, Ward was already playing in Cleveland - see below.

1956 Season

Ward began the season in a reserve role, getting starts at third base and in right field for the Pirates, and batting .333 in 16 games.  On May 15th, he was traded, straight-up, to the Indians for catcher Hank Foiles.  Ward would settle into a back-up role with the Indians, appearing in 87 games overall, and getting starts in left field, right field and at first base.  He batted .253 with six home runs and 21 RBIs for the Indians, in one of his best seasons in the majors.   

1950 Bowman #231

1953 Topps #173

1954 Topps #72

1957 Topps #226

1959 Topps #176

Other Notable Baseball Cards
First Mainstream Card:  1950 Bowman #231
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (7):  1953-59
Most Recent Mainstream Card:  1994 Topps Archives 1954 #72

27 - Ward non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 4/5/25.

Sources:  
Baseball Reference
Beckett Database

The Trading Card Database

Wikipedia

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Set Order: #327 Bob Wiesler - Washington Nationals / #329 Lou Berberet - Washington Nationals

Order Collected: #322 Karl Olson - Washington Nationals / #331 Dick Hall - Pittsburgh Pirates