1958 Topps #77B Don Zimmer
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 Don Zimmer
Topps #77 in the 1958 set, print series 1, lists Don Zimmer with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the club's first season on the West Coast. The card looks back at 1957 in Brooklyn: 84 games as a utility man at third, short and second, batting .219. The common version has white lettering; a yellow team-name version of #77 also exists.
Donald William Zimmer (1931-2014) was a light-hitting, glove-first infielder who signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in 1949 and spent twelve seasons in the major leagues. A pitch fractured his skull while he was with Triple-A St. Paul in July 1953, left him unconscious for days and forced surgery to relieve the swelling; he was back in the big leagues the following summer, debuting for Brooklyn on July 2, 1954. That winter he was the Caribbean Series MVP for Santurce, batting .400 with three home runs. Zimmer won World Series rings with the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers and the 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers, and also played for the Cubs, Mets, Reds and Washington Senators, filling in at second base, third base, shortstop, the outfield and finally catcher. He finished at .235 with 91 home runs and 352 RBI in 1,095 games. He later managed the Padres, Red Sox, Rangers and Cubs, took National League Manager of the Year honors in 1989, and sat beside Joe Torre as Yankees bench coach through their late-1990s title run. The Red Sox and the Rays each elected him to their team halls of fame, and Tampa Bay retired his number 66 in 2015.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball Almanac · BaseballCardPedia
Variations & how to tell them apart
Yellow Team (YT) #77
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.
- #77 — base card: the lettering is printed in WHITE — the base, more common version. — see the card page
- #77B — 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 | 175 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 39 | 44 | 38 | 28 | 0 |
| SGC | 18 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1958 Topps Don Zimmer card?
It is card #77 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 Don Zimmer, Los Angeles Dodgers, and this is the Yellow Team lettering variation.
What is the 1958 Topps Don Zimmer yellow variation?
On this version of #77 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 Don Zimmer #77 are there?
PSA has graded 175 copies and SGC 18 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.
How many cards are in the 1958 Topps set?
494 issued cards, numbered 1-495 - #145 (Ed Bouchee) was pulled before release and never issued, leaving a permanent gap. The PSA master census counts 534 items: the 494 base cards plus 33 yellow-letter variations, 4 numerical checklist-back team cards, the 'Herrer' #433 error, and 2 unnumbered ad cards.
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.