1958 Jay Publishing Phillies

[rayfg]

AustinMike, I agree with you and whiteymet that the team issue photo packs not attributed to Jay Publishing does not mean that Jay was not involved with them, probably starting in 1956. There are just too many similarities. My guess is that they printed and supplied all these photo packs from 1956-66.

I noticed also that the photos used by TCDB for the "1957 Jay Publishing New York Yankees World Series Picture Pack" set lists the team name as "New York Yankees". So, if those photos are accurate, Jay issued sets in 1957. I'm basing this on the seemingly accepted definition for Jay photo sets as having the city as part of the team name.

I suppose I will just collect all the Phillies photos from the 1956-66 photo packs and probably never know who printed what. My original post asked about a Jay Publishing Phillies photo from 1958 with the city in the team name. Not having found any, leads me to believe such photos for the Phillies began in 1959. I will be happy to be proved wrong.

[AustinMike]

Ray, I have the 1957 Yankees photo pack with 25 photos. It does indeed say "New York Yankees." However, I'm not sure why TCDB lists it as a World Series set. I provided an image of the package my set came in and it does not indicate it is for the World Series. There is a black tape on it and under the tape is "1957 Yankees." I have a couple of other Yankees photo sets from Jay Publishing that I think are from 1957 and they also say "New York Yankees."

TCDB indicates there is a 1958 Phillies set with "Philadelphia Phillies" on the photos, however, no photos are included with the listing. So, who knows. The best thing to do is keep looking and maybe one will show up eventually, if in fact there are any.

Good luck!

[rayfg]

Photos for the 1958 Jay set were recently removed from TCDB when I pointed out to them that they had simply repeated the photos from the team picture set. I also noted that all known Jay photos included the city, that is "Philadelphia Phillies". They interpreted that to mean there was a 1958 set with the same photos but "Phillies" replaced by "Philadelphia Phillies".