1960 Topps #505 Ted Kluszewski
About Ted Kluszewski
Theodore Bernard Kluszewski — “Big Klu” — was an Indiana University football and baseball star whom Reds scouts discovered launching 400-foot batting-practice blasts during the club’s wartime campus workouts. Signed for $15,000 after graduation in 1946, he won batting titles at Columbia and Memphis before debuting with Cincinnati in 1947. His biceps soon outgrew his jersey sleeves, so he cut them off — the look, and the nickname, stuck for good. The slugging first baseman made four straight NL All-Star teams (1953-1956) and led the majors with 171 homers in that span; his 1954 season (49 homers, a league-best 141 RBI, NL MVP runner-up) and 1955’s 47 homers against just 40 strikeouts remain among the rarest power-and-contact feats in the sport. A back injury slowed him after 1956, and Pittsburgh traded him to Chicago in August 1959, where he helped the Go-Go Sox win the pennant and hit .391 with three homers in the World Series. This 1960 Topps #505 shows him with that same club in his final full season before he closed out with the 1961 Angels. He retired with a .298 average, 279 homers and 1,028 RBI, had his No. 18 retired by the Reds, and later coached Cincinnati’s Big Red Machine to titles in 1975 and 1976.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 590 | 0 | 5 | 91 | 184 | 151 | 79 | 80 | 0 |
| SGC | 57 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 0 |
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 #505 card?
It is card #505 of the 572-card 1960 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ted Kluszewski.
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.