1961 Topps #168 Tommy Davis
Carries the Topps All-Star Rookie trophy, awarded for his 1960 season.
About Tommy Davis
Card #168 is a series-2 issue, and the trophy on its front is the Topps 1960 All-Star Rookie emblem. His rookie card came in the 1960 set. The line behind it is his first full season: a first start in center field in the season's third game, 57 starts there, and .276 with 18 doubles, 11 home runs and 44 RBI over 110 games, with only 35 strikeouts. Topps lists him here as a center fielder, a label that would not last.
Herman Thomas Davis Jr. was born March 21, 1939, in Brooklyn and signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers for a $4,000 bonus after a personal phone call from Jackie Robinson steered him away from the Yankees. He won minor-league batting titles at Kokomo in 1957 and Spokane in 1959, then struck out as a pinch hitter in his only September 1959 at-bat. He became the first Los Angeles Dodger to win a batting championship, taking the National League crown in 1962 at .346 with 230 hits and a franchise-record 153 RBI that broke Roy Campanella's 142, then repeating in 1963 at .326 for the only back-to-back pair in the club's Los Angeles history. A broken and dislocated ankle on May 1, 1965, took his power but not his bat, and he kept hitting for ten organizations across eighteen seasons, among them the one-year Seattle Pilots. The designated hitter rule revived him in Baltimore, where he batted .306 in 1973 and collected 181 hits in 1974 to win that season's Outstanding Designated Hitter Award. He finished with 2,121 hits and a .294 average in 1,999 games, then worked as a Dodgers minor-league instructor and as the Seattle Mariners' hitting coach in 1981. He died April 3, 2022, in Phoenix at 83.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · National Baseball Hall of Fame · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (2)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 691 | 1 | 34 | 260 | 220 | 106 | 43 | 26 | 1 |
| SGC | 66 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 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 #168 card?
It is card #168 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Tommy Davis of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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.