#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

#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

#335 Don Hoak - Chicago Cubs

Donald Albert Hoak
Chicago Cubs
Third Base

Bats:  Right  Throws:  Right  Height:  6'1"  Weight:  170
Born:  February 5, 1928, Roulette, PA
Signed:  Signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers as an amateur free agent before 1947 season
Major League Teams:  Brooklyn Dodgers 1954-55; Chicago Cubs 1956; Cincinnati Redlegs 1957-58; Pittsburgh Pirates 1959-62; Philadelphia Phillies 1963-64

Died:  October 9, 1969, Pittsburgh, PA (age 41)

A veteran of 11 big league seasons, Don Hoak had his greatest success in the majors in the early 1960s as the starting third baseman for the Pirates.  Hoak came up with the Dodgers in 1954 and started more games at third base for the club than Jackie Robinson (#30) or Billy Cox.  In 1955, Hoak served as Robinson's back-up, although he started at third in the decisive Game 7 of the 1955 World Series against the Yankees, won by the Dodgers on the strength of Johnny Podres' (#173) shutout.  Dealt to the Cubs in December 1955, and then again to the Redlegs in November 1956, Hoak would make his only All-Star team in 1957.  He'd lead the league that season with 39 doubles.  His career year came in 1960 with the Pirates, as part of the club that would eventually win the World Series.  Hoak batted .282 with 16 home runs and 79 RBIs, finishing as the runner-up in MVP voting behind teammate Dick Groat (#24).  He'd bat a career high .298 in 1961.

Hoak would finish up his playing days with the Phillies, pinch-hitting in six games before getting released by the club in May 1964.  He served briefly on the Phillies' big league coaching staff for one season in 1967.  In 1,263 career games, Hoak batted .265 with 1,144 hits, 89 home runs and 498 RBIs.  He was managing the Pirates' Triple-A team in 1969, passing away tragically from a heart attack following the season.

From the 1963 Phillies Yearbook

Building the Set

July 19, 1997 in Ocean City, NJ - Card #159
My Dad and I added this card to our set at the Ocean City baseball card show held inside the Music Pier.  We purchased 11 cards that July day - Hoak and eight other commons, along with the Warren Giles (#2) card for $10 and the Ray Boone (#6) card for $5.

I graduated college in the spring of 1997, and that summer was a good one as I worked on the Sea Isle Promenade at a few t-shirt stores.  My days were spent jogging, barely working, reading and sitting on the beach.  Dinner would usually come from Phil's on 37th and Landis Avenue, and ice cream was consumed nightly.

Dad was still working in Millville at the time, and we probably met up in front of the Music Pier prior to his show.  The baseball card collecting landscape changed drastically in the ten year period between 1987 and 1997, with autographed cards making their way into packs and multiple parallel versions of the same card confusing us as "old school" collectors.  Still, I'd give anything to be back inside the Music Pier with my Dad searching for the next 1956 Topps card to add to our set.  I'm sure he was thrilled to find a dealer selling a bunch of '56s in good shape and at around $2 a card.  

The Card / Cubs Team Set
Topps used the same photo for Hoak as the photos used on his 1954 and 1955 Topps cards, swapping out a Brooklyn logo for a Chicago logo.  The player diving into the base could be Hoak too.  He wore #43 with the Dodgers, switching to #7 with the Cubs, and Topps may have whited out the uniform number from his former team.  Hoak's SABR biography disputes the claim he was a prizefighter, from the first cartoon panel on the back of the card, finding no support to back up those claims.  The middle cartoon panel highlights his marriage in 1950, which ended in divorce in 1961, followed by a quick second marriage to singer and actress Jill Corey.

1956 Season

On December 9, 1955, less than two months after the Dodgers won their only World Series title while in Brooklyn, Hoak was traded with Russ Meyer (#227) and Walt Moryn to the Cubs for Don Elston and Randy Jackson (#223).  Hoak struggled with his new club, and on May 2nd he set a National League record by striking out six times against six different pitchers.  For the season, Hoak batted .215 with five home runs and 37 RBIs as the Cubs' regular third baseman.  On November 13th, he was on the move again, traded to the Redlegs with Warren Hacker (#282) and Pete Whisenant for Ray Jablonski (#86) and Elmer Singleton.

Phillies Career
After a successful four seasons in Pittsburgh, the Pirates traded Hoak to the Phillies on November 28, 1962 for Pancho Herrera and Ted Savage.  Phillies' incumbent third baseman Don Demeter was moved to the outfield to make room for Hoak for the 1963 season, and Hoak struggled from the outset.  Batting .187 by the end of May, he was benched in favor of Demeter and then briefly, Ruben Amaro.  Hoak would work his way back into the starting line-up through the summer and early fall, eventually starting 101 games at the position by the end of the season.  He batted .231 in 1963, collecting 87 hits, six home runs and 24 RBIs.  At the start of the 1964 season, the 36-year-old Hoak had lost his starting third baseman job to rookie Dick Allen.  After going 0 for 4 with a pair of sacrifices in six pinch-hitting appearances, the Phillies released Hoak on May 18th, ending his playing career.

He was kept on the Phillies' payroll as a special assignment scout throughout the disastrous 1964 season.  He'd come back to the team briefly in 1967 as the third base coach for manager Gene Mauch, but he was dismissed after the season.

1953 Topps #176

1955 Topps #40

1957 Topps #274

1961 Topps #230

1964 Topps #254

Other Notable Baseball Cards
First Mainstream Card:  1953 Topps #176
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (12):  1953-64
Most Recent Mainstream Card:  2016 Panini Diamond Kings #25

101 - Hoak non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 5/25/25.

Sources:  
Baseball Reference
Beckett Database

The Phillies Room

SABR
The Trading Card Database

Wikipedia

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Set Order: #334 Bob Miller - Philadelphia Phillies / #336 Ellis Kinder - St. Louis Cardinals

Order Collected: #317 Al Aber - Detroit Tigers / #15 Ernie Banks - Chicago Cubs

#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

#333 Rube Walker - Brooklyn Dodgers

Albert Bluford Walker
Brooklyn Dodgers
Catcher

Bats:  Left  Throws:  Right  Height:  6'0"  Weight:  175
Born:  May 16, 1926, Lenoir, NC
Signed:  Signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent before 1944 season
Major League Teams:  Chicago Cubs 1948-51; Brooklyn Dodgers 1951-57; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958

Died:  December 12, 1992, Morganton, NC (age 66)

Rube Walker was a back-up catcher for 11 big league seasons and then a long-time pitching coach for another 21 big league seasons.  Walker came up with the Cubs and the 79 games he played in as a rookie in 1948 were his career high.  He'd start 50 games behind the plate for the Cubs in 1950, again a high water mark.  Walker was included in a blockbuster eight-player deal with the Dodgers in June 1951, heading to Brooklyn along with Andy Pafko (#312) and Wayne Terwilliger (#73).  He'd serve as Roy Campanella's (#101) back-up from 1951 to 1957, and Walker was behind the plate in the 1951 National League tie-breaker series when Bobby Thomson (#257) hit his Shot Heard 'Round the World to send the rival Giants to the World Series.  The Dodgers went to four World Series with Walker on the roster, but his only postseason action came as a pinch-hitter during the 1956 series against the Yankees.

Walker transitioned to a coaching role during his final season with the Dodgers in 1958.  In 608 games, he batted .227 with 35 home runs and 192 RBIs.  Walker was a minor league manager between 1959 and 1964, and then a long-time pitching coach for the Senators (1965-67), Mets (1968-81) and Braves (1982-84).  He won a World Series ring with the Mets in 1969, and was a trusted advisor to Hall of Famers Gil Hodges (#145), Casey Stengel, Yogi Berra (#110) and Joe Torre.

December 12, 2003 - My family at the Buena Tavern

Building the Set
December 25, 2003 from San Diego, CA (Kit Young Cards) - Card #251
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 / Dodgers Team Set
Walker never appeared in a Bowman set and had an impressive run of Topps set appearances between 1952 and 1958.  The bigger photo is the same used on Walker's 1954 and 1955 Topps cards.  That's likely him sliding into a Giants' infielder, as Walker wore #10 with the Dodgers during his entire run with the club.  The back of the card highlights his minor league success and his strong throwing arm.  Topps reprinted the card in its 1995 Topps Archives Brooklyn Dodgers box set.

1956 Season

Walker's career was winding down at this point.  He appeared in 54 games overall, making 37 starts behind the plate to give Campanella days off.  Walker batted .212 with three home runs and 20 RBIs.

1952 Topps #319

1954 Topps #153

1957 Topps #147

1958 Topps #203

1974 Topps #179

Other Notable Baseball Cards
First Mainstream Card:  1952 Topps #319
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (9):  1952-58, 1973-74
Most Recent Mainstream Card:  2005 Topps Dem Bums #DB-RW

48 - Walker non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 5/13/25.

Sources:  
Baseball Reference
Beckett Database

SABR
The Trading Card Database

Wikipedia

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Set Order: #332 Don Larsen - New York Yankees / #334 Bob Miller - Philadelphia Phillies

Order Collected: #297 Bob Skinner - Pittsburgh Pirates / #334 Bob Miller - Philadelphia Phillies