1964 Topps #526 Lou Clinton
About Lou Clinton
At #526, Clinton sits in the seventh series of 1964 Topps, a high number and the only high number among his Topps cards from 1961 through 1967. He is still pictured with Boston. The year behind it was 1963, his heaviest workload: 148 games, career bests of 22 home runs and 77 runs batted in, but an average that slid to .232 as his strikeouts climbed from 79 to 118. He later explained that he had played the whole season with a separated right shoulder, discovered only when he had x-rays taken that winter. On June 4, 1964, Boston traded him to the Los Angeles Angels for Lee Thomas.
Luciean Louis Clinton, an Oklahoma-born outfielder who batted and threw right-handed, spent parts of eight major league seasons (1960-1967) with five American League clubs: the Boston Red Sox, the Los Angeles and California Angels, the Kansas City Athletics, the Cleveland Indians and the New York Yankees. Signed by Boston as an amateur free agent in 1955, straight out of Ponca City High School in Oklahoma, he debuted on April 22, 1960 and went on to play right field in 603 of his 691 career games. His best year came in 1962, when he hit for the cycle against Kansas City and set a career high with a .294 batting average, though his peak home run total came a year later. Across eight seasons he batted .247 with 65 home runs and 269 RBIs. The Yankees sold his contract to Philadelphia in May 1967 and he finished that year at Triple-A San Diego, then retired to run an oil business in Wichita, Kansas, where he also became an outstanding amateur golfer and a regular contender in local and state tournaments. The Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame elected him in its class of 1987, and he died in Wichita in 1997 at the age of 60.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 251 | 0 | 29 | 126 | 64 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 13 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-09-04. Half grades fold down for both graders (8.5→8); PSA qualified slabs (OC, ST, PD, MC and the like) are not counted.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1964 Topps #526 card?
It is card #526 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Lou Clinton of the Boston Red Sox.
Is 1964 Topps #526 a scarce card?
It is a high number card from the seventh print series, #523-587, distributed last. Scarcer than the rest of the set but only mildly so - the high premium runs roughly 55-60 percent, far milder than the 1952-62 highs.
How many cards are in the 1964 Topps Baseball set?
587 cards, tracked as 589 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 587 with no gaps, and no number carries two different cards; two cards - #4, the A.L. Pitching Leaders, and #517, the seventh-series checklist - carry a catalogued back variation that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, The Topps Archives, Baseball Almanac, 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 2026-10-11.