1961 Topps #413 Eddie Yost
About Eddie Yost
The fifth-series #413 is Yost's first Topps card as an Angel, and by then he had already written himself into the club's record book: he led off the first game in Angels history at Baltimore on April 11, 1961, the first man ever to bat for the franchise. The season that followed was thin. He hit .202 over 76 games, the lowest mark of his career as a regular, and still reached base at a .358 clip on the back of 50 walks. The last of his 139 home runs came that season, in his final official at-bat of the year, against his old Washington club.
Eddie Yost built an 18-year major league career out of the one skill nobody paid for in his era: he would not swing at a bad pitch. A Brooklyn-born New York University infielder, he signed with the Washington Senators in 1944 and went straight to the big club at age 17, never playing a day in the minors, then lost 1945 to the Navy. From 1947 he held down third base in Washington for a dozen seasons. Fans called him The Walking Man because he drew walks in bunches, leading the American League six times and finishing with 1,614, 11th on the career list, and a .394 on-base percentage against a .254 batting average. He was a fine glove too, setting American League career records at third base with 2,356 putouts, 3,659 assists and 6,285 total chances, and he was the first third baseman to play more than 2,000 games at the position. Washington traded him to Detroit in December 1958 to clear third base for Harmon Killebrew; the expansion Los Angeles Angels took him after the 1960 season, and he retired in 1962. A 23-season coaching career followed, most of it in the third-base box, and it brought him a World Series ring with the 1969 Mets.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 353 | 0 | 35 | 184 | 90 | 24 | 11 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 19 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-09-04. PSA counts are straight grades only; PSA half grades (PSA 1.5 among them) and qualified slabs are not included. SGC half grades fold down (8.5→8). Slabs of the two cards printed #463 are joined by description, never by number alone.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1961 Topps #413 card?
It is card #413 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Eddie Yost of the Los Angeles Angels.
How many cards are in the 1961 Topps Baseball set?
587 cards, tracked as 596 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 589, but #426, #587 and #588 were never issued and two different cards were printed #463 - Jack Fisher and the Milwaukee Braves Team card, catalogued 463b - and eight cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, The Topps Archives, 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 2026-10-05.