1960 Topps #7 Master & Mentor
On this card: Willie Mays, Bill Rigney
'Master & Mentor' — Willie Mays with Giants manager Bill Rigney, the first of the set's eleven tag-lined combo cards.
About this card
This is one of the eleven combo cards scattered through the 1960 Topps set, each pairing two or three players under a nickname headline rather than giving one man his own card.
The players on this card
"Master and Mentor," the first of 1960 Topps' eleven combo cards, pairs Willie Mays with his skipper, Bill Rigney. Mays was in the prime of a Cooperstown-bound career: in 1959 he hit .313 with 34 home runs, 104 RBI and 27 stolen bases, earning a Gold Glove and All-Star honors for the Giants. He finished with 660 home runs, two NL MVP awards and a first-ballot Hall of Fame induction in 1979. Rigney, a former Giants infielder who became skipper in 1956, led the club's 1958 move to San Francisco and nearly to a pennant in 1959 - the Giants led by 3½ games in late August before dropping 18 of their last 29 to finish third. The 1960 club opened Candlestick Park with a hot start, winning 20 of its first 29, but faded to 33-25. On June 17, after a home sweep by Pittsburgh, owner Horace Stoneham fired Rigney - a move many still call the worst in franchise history.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,977 | 1 | 32 | 337 | 379 | 385 | 280 | 558 | 5 |
| SGC | 549 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 54 | 88 | 127 | 249 | 3 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-08-20. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8), and PSA's qualified grades are counted separately from the straight-grade rows shown here. The Venezuelan issue, the 1960 Topps Tattoos and Bazooka are separate products and are not counted here.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1960 Topps #7 card?
It is card #7 of the 572-card 1960 Topps Baseball set, picturing Willie Mays, Bill Rigney.
What is the 1960 Topps Venezuelan version?
Topps licensed a parallel printing for the Venezuelan market covering roughly the first 196 cards. It is a separate issue on thinner stock with Spanish text on the back, collected on its own and not part of finishing this 572-card set.
How many cards are in the 1960 Topps Baseball set?
572 cards, numbered 1-572, issued in seven series - the last Topps flagship printed entirely horizontally. Cards #375-440 exist on two back stocks, white and gray, which collectors chasing every printed variety count as 638 pieces of cardboard in all.
Sources: Trading Card Database, Cardboard Connection, the PSA price guide, Baseball-Reference, the SABR BioProject and the National Baseball Hall of Fame, PSA & SGC population reports. Card data compiled and maintained by T206Cards.com. Page last updated 2026-08-20.