1961 Topps #569 Frank Herrera
About this card
Cards #566-586 and #589 are the 22 Sporting News All-Stars, printed in the scarce seventh series - the toughest run in the set.
About Frank Herrera
Card 569 in the 1961 Topps set shows Herrera with the Philadelphia Phillies in the Sporting News All-Star subset, a seventh-series card and one of the high numbers. His first Topps card came in 1958 at number 433, from an early press run that misspelled the name Herrer. This one follows his 1960 breakout, when Gene Mauch shifted him off an odd early-season second base experiment and put him at first after a May trade with the Cubs sent away Ed Bouchee and brought in Tony Taylor. Herrera batted .281 with big league career highs of 17 home runs and 71 RBIs, finished second to Frank Howard in the National League Rookie of the Year vote, and set a National League record with 136 strikeouts.
Juan Francisco Herrera Villavicencio, the Cuban-born first baseman known in the United States as Pancho or Frank, played parts of three major league seasons for the Philadelphia Phillies (1958, 1960-1961). Born June 16, 1934 in Santiago de las Vegas, near Havana, he signed his first professional contract in Cuba in 1950 and was picked up in 1952 by the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League, where he caught alongside Ernie Banks and was chosen for the 1953 East-West All-Star Game. The Phillies purchased him from the Monarchs in 1954, making him the first Afro-Latino to play for the club. He also played Cuban League winters for the Habana Lions and Cienfuegos, and won the 1959 International League Triple Crown and MVP award at Buffalo (.329, 37 home runs, 128 RBIs). Listed at 6-foot-3 and 220 pounds, he opened as a catcher, played third base for the 1958 Phillies, was tried at second base in 1960 and settled at first. He batted .271 with 31 home runs and 128 RBIs in exactly 300 major league games, and died in Miami on April 28, 2005. He was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in Miami in 1997 and the International League Hall of Fame in 2008.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 497 | 5 | 37 | 184 | 138 | 80 | 31 | 22 | 0 |
| SGC | 59 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 1 |
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 #569 card?
It is card #569 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Frank Herrera of the Philadelphia Phillies. Cards #566-586 and #589 are the 22 Sporting News All-Stars, printed in the scarce seventh series - the toughest run in the set.
Why is #569 harder to find?
It is a high number card (cards 523-589) from the seventh and last print series - the scarce end of the set, including the 22 Sporting News All-Stars.
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.