1958 Topps #76B Dick Farrell
Yellow-team (YT) lettering variation - the team/city name is printed in yellow instead of white. The white version is the common counterpart; yellow variants run roughly 2-2.5x scarcer.
Yellow Team lettering variation: the team/city name is printed in yellow instead of white. PSA population data puts yellow copies at roughly 2-2.5x scarcer than their white counterparts.
About Dick Farrell
Dick Farrell's 1958 Topps #76 is a rookie card from the first series, showing him with the Philadelphia Phillies. It reports his 1957 rookie season as their closer: 52 relief appearances, a 10-2 record, a 2.38 ERA and 10 saves. The number exists in two versions, the common white lettering and a variation with the team name printed in yellow.
Richard Joseph "Turk" Farrell was a 6-foot-4 right-hander whose 14 major-league seasons (1956-1969) were all in the National League, with the Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston's Colt .45s/Astros. Born in Boston on April 8, 1934, he was stricken with polio before his second birthday, wore a leg brace until he was six and was left with a permanent limp and a left foot an inch and a half shorter than his right. The nickname came from his father Tom, a big man who kept the graves at Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline and was known as Big Turk. Signed by the Phillies out of St. Mary's High School in Brookline in 1953, Farrell threw a fastball hitters dreaded, and with Jack Meyer and Jim Owens he formed Philadelphia's hard-living Dalton Gang. He was picked for the National League All-Star squad in 1958, 1962, 1964 and 1965, twice over in 1962, when the majors staged two All-Star Games. He finished 106-111 with a 3.45 ERA, 83 saves and 1,177 strikeouts in 590 games. Farrell was killed in a car accident in Great Yarmouth, England, on June 10, 1977, at 43, while working as a safety supervisor on North Sea oil rigs; in 2020 he was revealed to be the biological father of big-league pitcher Richard Dotson.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball Almanac · BaseballCardPedia
Variations & how to tell them apart
Yellow Team (YT) #76
Fourteen Series 1/early-2 cards exist with the team/city name printed in yellow instead of white. The white version is the common counterpart; yellow variants run roughly 2-2.5x scarcer.
- #76 — base card: the lettering is printed in WHITE — the base, more common version. — see the card page
- #76B — Yellow Team: the team/city name is printed in YELLOW — the scarcer version, roughly 2-2.5x tougher than white per PSA populations. (this page)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 143 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 32 | 36 | 32 | 24 | 0 |
| SGC | 19 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-07-09. Counts cover this variation only; the base version is tracked separately. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8). PSA counts are straight-graded (the +/Q qualifier rows are excluded).
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- #36 Ted Kazanski
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- #64 Joe Lonnett
- #76 Dick Farrell
- #90 Robin Roberts
- #116 Dave Philley
- #134 Philadelphia Phillies Team
- #171 Harry Anderson
- #181 Willie Jones
- #186 Jack Meyer
- #207 Solly Hemus
- #230 Richie Ashburn
- #251 Warren Hacker
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1958 Topps Dick Farrell card?
It is card #76 of the 1958 Topps Baseball set - Topps' sixth flagship issue: 494 cards numbered 1-495 (#145 was never issued), with die-cut player photos on solid-color backgrounds and the first team logos on Topps fronts. It pictures Dick Farrell, Philadelphia Phillies, and this is the Yellow Team lettering variation.
Is the 1958 Topps Dick Farrell #76 a rookie card?
Yes - #76 is a rookie card, one of 103 in the 1958 Topps set.
What is the 1958 Topps Dick Farrell yellow variation?
On this version of #76 the team/city name is printed in yellow instead of white - one of the set's 33 recognized lettering variations. Yellow copies run roughly 2-2.5x scarcer than the white version per PSA population data.
How many graded copies of the 1958 Topps Dick Farrell #76 are there?
PSA has graded 143 copies and SGC 19 as of the 2026-07-09 snapshot (this variation only). Population is a scarcity guide, not a price - high-grade 1958s are notoriously tough because of the set's chronic centering and print-quality issues.
Sources: PSA CardFacts, Beckett, BaseballCardPedia, Baseball-Reference, PSA & SGC population reports, and hobby press-sheet research (Topps Archives, 2026). Card data compiled and maintained by T206Cards.com. Page last updated 2026-09-30.