1951 Topps Blue Back #30 Enos Slaughter
About Enos Slaughter
In 1949 Slaughter batted .336, the highest average of his career, and in 1950 it fell to .290. The run production held: 161 hits in 148 games, 10 home runs and 101 RBI, only the second 100-RBI season of his career after the 130 he drove in during 1946. He played 145 games in the St. Louis outfield and was named to the National League All-Star team for the fifth year in a row, a streak that began the year he came home from the war.
Enos Slaughter was a left-handed-hitting right fielder who played 19 seasons, from 1938 to 1959, the first 13 of them with the St. Louis Cardinals and the rest with the Yankees, the Kansas City Athletics and the Milwaukee Braves. He hit .300 with 2,383 hits, 169 home runs and 1,304 RBI in 2,380 games and was chosen for ten All-Star Games, eight of them in a row from 1946 to 1953. In 1942 he led the National League with 188 hits. After three years in the Army Air Corps during World War II he returned in 1946 and led the league with 130 RBI. In Game 7 of that year's World Series he scored from first base on Harry Walker's eighth-inning double, the winning run against Boston, a play remembered as the Mad Dash. He won World Series rings with the Cardinals in 1942 and 1946 and with the Yankees in 1956 and 1958. Manager Burt Shotton gave him the nickname Country at Columbus in 1937. The Hall of Fame elected him in 1985, and the Cardinals retired his number 9 on September 6, 1996.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 223 | 0 | 25 | 54 | 20 | 33 | 39 | 52 | 0 |
| SGC | 37 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-10-19. Half grades fold down for both graders (8.5→8); PSA qualified slabs (OC, ST, PD, MC and the like) are not counted.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1951 Topps Blue Back #30 card?
It is Blue Back #30 in the 135-card 1951 Topps Baseball checklist, picturing Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals.
How many cards are in the 1951 Topps Baseball set?
135 cards across five issues - the Red Backs and Blue Backs (52 each), nine Team cards, and eleven each of Connie Mack's All-Stars and the Major League All-Stars. With the Zernial and Holmes variations and both versions of each Team card the master set is 146. All 135 count toward the full set; Jim Konstanty, Robin Roberts and Eddie Stanky, the three rarest Major League All-Stars, are so rarely seen that collectors often count a complete set as 132 without them.
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