1963 Topps #169 1963 Rookie Stars
On this card: Dick Egan, Julio Navarro, Gaylord Perry, Tommie Sisk
Rookie card for Dick Egan and Tommie Sisk only. The back spells Sisk's first name 'Tommy,' an error Topps never corrected.
Uncorrected error: The back calls him "Tommy" Sisk.
About this card
The twenty Rookie Stars cards, four players each and all titled "1963 Rookie Stars", carry the rookie class - Pete Rose on #537, Willie Stargell on #553, Tony Oliva and Ed Kranepool on #228, Rusty Staub on #544, Bill Freehan on #466 and Dave McNally on #562. Three of them (#169, #208, #544) are rookie cards for only some of the men pictured.
The story on this card
Card #169 is a second-series card, and it packs four Rookie Stars onto one front: Egan with Detroit, Julio Navarro with the Los Angeles Angels, Gaylord Perry with San Francisco and Tommie Sisk with Pittsburgh. It counts as a rookie card for Egan and Sisk only, since Perry already had a 1962 Topps card. Collectors also know it as an error card: the back spells Sisk's first name 'Tommy.' Egan opened that season in the Detroit bullpen and debuted on Opening Day, April 9, relieving Jim Bunning in the eighth inning and striking out Nellie Fox. He finished the year with 20 relief outings, an 0-1 record and a 5.14 ERA, with a midseason demotion to Triple-A Syracuse in between. Dick Egan was a tall left-handed reliever from Berkeley, California, who pitched four big-league seasons for the Tigers, Angels and Dodgers, picking up the only win of his career in relief in 1967, then spent decades as a coach and scout.
1963 was the year Navarro arrived: a club-high 57 games, all in relief, a 4-0 start that drew early Rookie of the Year talk, and a final line of 4-5 with a 2.89 ERA and a team-best 12 saves, splitting the late innings with 40-year-old Art Fowler. He placed in the American League's top ten in games pitched, saves and games finished (30). It stacks four players from four clubs: Navarro with the Angels, Dick Egan with Detroit, Tommie Sisk with Pittsburgh, and Gaylord Perry with San Francisco, the 314-game winner and 1991 Hall of Famer. Puerto Rican sidearm reliever nicknamed Whiplash for the fastball he slung from down low; he pitched for the Angels, Tigers and Braves between 1962 and 1970 after learning the game on St. Croix.
The Rookie Stars panel at #169 is a four-man second-series card, pooling Tigers, Angels, Giants and Pirates arms: Dick Egan, Julio Navarro, Perry and Tommie Sisk, whose name is spelled 'Tommy' on the reverse. The card is the rookie issue for Egan and Sisk, while the rookie card of Perry had come out a year earlier. The season around it was his worst. Stuck in the Giants bullpen and used seldom, he went 1-6 with a 4.03 ERA over 31 games and only four starts, just 76 innings, and salvaged the year by leading the Dominican winter league in strikeouts. Gaylord Perry was a cunning San Francisco Giants right-hander notorious for the spitball he spent two decades denying, a five-time All-Star who won Cy Young Awards in both leagues and finished with 314 wins and 3,534 strikeouts before his 1991 Hall of Fame election.
Sisk shares card #169 in the 1963 Topps set, a second-series Rookie Stars panel that crowds four prospects onto one front: Dick Egan, Julio Navarro, Gaylord Perry and Sisk. Perry won 314 games, struck out 3,534 and was voted into Cooperstown in 1991, but only Egan and Sisk count it as their true rookie card. Topps spelled Sisk's first name 'Tommy' on the back. The line printed there is his debut summer of 1962, when the 20-year-old went 0-2 with a 4.08 ERA in five games, three of them starts, over 17 2/3 innings. Tommie Sisk was a right-handed pitcher who spent seven seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates, moving from the bullpen into the rotation before one-year finishes with the expansion San Diego Padres and the Chicago White Sox.
Sources: Wikipedia (Dick Egan (pitcher)) · Wikipedia (Julio Navarro) · Wikipedia (Gaylord Perry) · Wikipedia (Tommie Sisk) · SABR BioProject (Dick Egan) · SABR BioProject (Julio Navarro) · SABR BioProject (Gaylord Perry) · National Baseball Hall of Fame
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,750 | 0 | 33 | 337 | 452 | 359 | 229 | 328 | 12 |
| SGC | 535 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 99 | 111 | 143 | 156 | 5 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-09-24. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8), and PSA's qualified grades are counted separately from the straight-grade rows shown here.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1963 Topps #169 card?
It is card #169 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dick Egan, Julio Navarro, Gaylord Perry and Tommie Sisk. The twenty Rookie Stars cards, four players each and all titled "1963 Rookie Stars", carry the rookie class - Pete Rose on #537, Willie Stargell on #553, Tony Oliva and Ed Kranepool on #228, Rusty Staub on #544, Bill Freehan on #466 and Dave McNally on #562. Three of them (#169, #208, #544) are rookie cards for only some of the men pictured.
Is #169 a rookie card for all four players?
No. The rookie-card designation covers Dick Egan and Tommie Sisk only: Julio Navarro's first Topps card is 1960 #140 and Gaylord Perry's is 1962 #199. The back also spells Sisk's first name "Tommy", an error Topps never corrected.
Does 1963 Topps #169 have an error?
The back calls him "Tommy" Sisk. It was never corrected, so there is no variation to chase - every copy of #169 reads the same way.
How many cards are in the 1963 Topps Baseball set?
576 cards, tracked as 583 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 576 with no gaps and no number used twice, and seven cards carry a catalogued print variation - three checklists, the two Rookie Stars cards also printed with a "1962" heading, and the #341 Jack Baldschun and #454 Art Fowler print states - that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, 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 2026-10-03.