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Specs
Year: 1952
Title: Parkhurst
Size: 2″ by 2 1/2″
Number in Set: 100
Overview
The 1952 Parkhurst set was produced in partnership with Frostade (a competitor to Kool-Aid) and features 100 cards from the three Canadian International League Teams (AAA caliber); the Toronto Maple Leafs (1-26), Montreal Royals (49-76), and Ottawa Athletics (77-100). The set also has a few cards featuring playing tips and quizzes (27-48).
If you didn’t know, the Maple Leafs were affiliated with the St. Louis Browns, the Royals were affiliated with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the Athletics were affiliated with Philadelphia A’s.
The front of the cards feature a black-and-white player photo within a white border.
The red-inked, numbered backs share basic player information along the top, followed by a pretty long advertisement for Frostade, including the “chance to get a smart new plastic six-shooter!”
Examples
A nearly complete set of 93 of the 100 1952 Parkhurst Baseball Frostade cards, all graded PSA 4 to 7, is listed on eBay for $4500 (August 14, 2022)
Back in the summer of 2014, Mile High Card Co. auctioned off a complete SGC graded set for $735.
As the proprietor of the Unopened Archive, I thought I should also share a few of images of the cardboard “wrappers” that housed the 1952 Parkhurst cards.
Key Cards
The set’s key cards belong to Tommy Lasorda and Walt Alston.
Checklist
1 Joe Becker
2 Aaron Silverman
3 Bobby Rhawn
4 Russ Bauers
5 Bill Jennings
6 Grover Bowers
7 Vic Lombardi
8 Billy DeMars
9 Frank Colman
10 Charley Grant
11 Irving Medlinger
12 Burke McLaughlin
13 Lew Morton
14 Red Barrett
15 Leon Foulk
16 Neill Sheridan
17 Ferrell Anderson
18 Ray Shore
19 Duke Markell
20 Bob Balcena
21 Wilmer Fields
22 Charlie White
23 Jerry Fahr
24 Jose Bracho
25 Ed Stevens
26 Maple Leaf Stadium
27 Throwing Home
28 Baseball Diamond
29 Gripping The Bat
30 Hiding The Pitch
31 Catcher’s Stance
32 Quiz
33 Exercises
34 First Baseman
35 Pitcher’s Stance
36 Swinging Bats
37 Quiz
38 Watch The Ball
39 Quiz
40 Quiz
41 How To Bunt
42 Wrist Snap
43 Pitching Practice
44 Stealing Bases
45 Pitching 1
46 Pitching 2
47 Signals
48 Regulation Baseballs
49 Albert Ronning
50 Bill Glane
51 Clark Samson
52 Charles Thompson
53 Pat McGlothin
54 Spook Jacobs
55 Art Fabbro
56 Jim Hughes
57 Don Hoak
58 Tommy Lasorda
59 Gil Mills
60 Mal Mallette
61 Rocky Nelson
62 John Simmons
63 Bob Alexander
64 Dan Bankhead
65 Hampton Coleman
66 Walt Alston
67 Walt Fiala
68 James Gilliam
69 Jim Pendleton
70 Gino Cimoli
71 Carmen Mauro
72 Walt Moryn
73 Jim Romano
74 Joe Lutz
75 Ed Roebuck
76 John Podres
77 Walter Novick
78 Vince Gohl
79 Tom Kirk
80 Robert Betz
81 Bill Hockenbury
82 Al Rubeling
83 Neal Watlington
84 Frank Fanovich
85 Hank Foiles
86 Lou Limmer
87 Ed Hrabczak
88 Bob Gardner
89 John Metkovich
90 Jean-Pierre Roy
91 Frank Skaff
92 Harry Desert
93 Stan Jok
94 Russ Swingle
95 Bob Wellman
96 John Conway
97 George Moskovich
98 Charlie Bishop
99 Joe Murray
100 Mike Kume