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1951-52 Parkhurst NHL

terry sawchuk detroit red wings 1951-52 parkhurst 61 rookie cardThe 1951-52 Parkhurst set consists of 105 hockey cards featuring players from the six teams that made up the National Hockey League at the time. This set marked the first major hockey card set in over a decade and took the hobby out of the dark ages and into the modern era.

Because there hadn’t been a major set since the 1940-41 O-Pee-Chee V301-2, pretty much all of the cards in the 1951-52 Parkhurst set were rookie cards. There were some exceptions, including Sid Abel, Max Bentley, Turk Broda and Milt Schmidt.

The most valuable cards, all rookie cards, in the set include Gordie Howe, Maurice Richard and Terry Sawchuk with book values all over $1,000.

These 1951-52 Parkhurst cards were smaller than the standard that would soon after be set. They measured just 1 3/4″ wide and 2 1/2″ in height. All information about the players was given on the front of the card and the backs were blank.

1951-52 Parkhurst NHL Video

1951-52 Parkhurst NHL Checklist

Number Player
1 Elmer Lach RC
2 Paul Meger RC
3 Emile “Butch” Bouchard RC
4 Maurice “Rocket” Richard RC
5 Bert Olmstead RC
6 Jim “Bud” MacPherson RC
7 Tom Johnson RC
8 Paul Masnick RC
9 Calum MacKay RC
10 Doug Harvey RC
11 Ken Mosdell RC
12 Floyd Curry RC
13 Billy Reay RC
14 Bernie “Boom-Boom” Geoffrion RC
15 Gerry McNeil RC
16 Dick Gamble RC
17 Gerry Couture RC
18 Ross Lowe RC
19 Jim Henry RC
20 Vic Lynn RC
21 Walter “Gus” Kyle RC
22 Ed Sandford RC
23 Murray Henderson RC
24 Dunc Fisher RC
25 Hal Laycoe RC article link button
26 Bill Quackenbush RC
27 George “Red” Sullivan RC
28 Woody Dumart RC
29 Milt Schmidt RC
30 Adam Brown RC
31 Pentti Lund RC
32 Ray Barry RC
33 Ed Kryzanowski RC
34 Johnny Peirson RC
35 Lorne Ferguson RC
36 Clare Raglan RC
37 Bill Gadsby RC
38 Al Dewsbury RC
39 Clare Martin RC
40 Gus Bodnar RC
41 Jim Peters RC
42 Armand “Bep” Guidolin RC
43 George “Hully” Gee RC
44 Jim McFadden RC
45 Fred Hucul RC
46 Lee Fogolin RC
47 Harry Lumley RC
48 Doug Bentley RC
49 Bill Mosienko RC
50 Roy Conacher RC
51 Pete Babando RC
52 Bill Barilko/Gerry McNeil RC [The Winning Goal]
53 Jack Stewart RC
54 Marty Pavelich RC
55 Leonard “Red” Kelly RC article link button
56 Ted Lindsay RC
57 Glen Skov RC
58 Benny Woit RC
59 Tony Leswick RC
60 Fred Glover RC article link button
61 Terry Sawchuk RC
62 Vic Stasiuk RC
63 Alex Delvecchio RC article link button
64 Sid Abel RC
65 Metro Prystai RC article link button
66 Gordie Howe RC
67 Bob Goldham RC
68 Marcel Pronovost RC
69 Leo Reise RC
70 Harry Watson RC
71 Danny Lewicki RC
72 Howie Meeker RC
73 Gus Mortson RC
74 Joe Klukay RC
75 Walter “Turk” Broda
76 Al Rollins RC
77 Bill Juzda RC
78 Ray Timgren RC
79 Hugh Bolton RC
80 Fern Flaman RC
81 Max Bentley RC
82 Jim Thomson RC
83 Fleming Mackell RC
84 Sid Smith RC
85 Cal Gardner RC
86 Ted Kennedy RC
87 Tod Sloan RC
88 Bob Solinger RC
89 Frank Eddolls RC
90 Jack Evans RC
91 Hy Buller RC
92 Steve Kraftcheck RC
93 Don Raleigh RC
94 Allan Stanley RC
95 Paul Ronty RC
96 Edgar Laprade RC
97 Nick Mickoski RC
98 Jack McLeod RC
99 Gaye Stewart RC
100 Wally Hergesheimer RC
101 Ed Kullman RC
102 Ed Slowinski RC
103 Reggie Sinclair RC
104 Chuck Rayner RC
105 Jim Conacher RC

4 thoughts on “1951-52 Parkhurst NHL”

  1. #52 winning goal..Gerry mcneil
    have this card showing the late bill barilko..same card ?
    have full set….what is todays value ?
    thank you
    ted purvis

    1. I noticed Ted’s comment today – lost in the system over a year ago…

      For what it’s worth, yes, the #52 card shows Bill Barilko scoring his final goal – the Stanley Cup winner – against McNeil. This is the only card that shows Barilko before he died in the summer of ’51. Book value is around $500 for the card but it obviously sells for much higher. The full set has a book value of $12,000 but, again, more or less, depending on the condition of the cards.

  2. I have a #52 Barilko The Winning Goal card
    The color blue printed on the card is offset to the right of the card a bit, not lining up perfectly with the rest of the picture. Has anyone seen this before???
    Is this more rare, or an error. Pretty sure it is not fake. The card is in very rough shape. Thanks for any info.

  3. In the 2000s, a company called Viper printed a 1000 box run of these cards that they called a reprint set. They used card stock and ink from the same era, and did not mark the cards as being reprints in any way. Some might even call that counterfeiting. Some people said that they could even fool a ph test, and an official card grader said that he’d have called it authentic if he didn’t know any better at the time.

    If you search google for it now, the only discussion you can find about this is from old tapatalk groups from ten years ago. Just as everyone predicted, those cards have made there way out into the hobby as the real deal.

    I am desperately trying to find side by side comparisons of the real Parkies and the Viper reprints, but nothing like that exists anywhere. If you happen to have such a picture, please contact me!

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