1965 Topps #55 Tony Conigliaro
Carries the Topps All-Star Rookie trophy, awarded for his selection to the 1964 Topps All-Star Rookie team.
About Tony Conigliaro
Conigliaro followed his rookie year by leading the American League in home runs with 32, batting .269 with 82 RBI and 82 runs scored in 138 games and becoming the youngest home run champion in AL history, all of it done at twenty years old and through another broken left wrist courtesy of a pitch. This first-series card carries the Topps All-Star Rookie trophy in its lower corner, the honor Topps gave him for that 1964 debut.
Tony Conigliaro was a Revere, Massachusetts kid who signed with the Red Sox out of high school and made the big club at nineteen. On the first pitch of his first Fenway Park at-bat, in the 1964 home opener, he hit a home run. He led the American League with 32 homers in 1965 at age twenty, the youngest home run champion in AL history, and when he reached 100 career home runs in July 1967 he was the youngest American Leaguer ever to get there. On August 18, 1967, during Boston's pennant-winning Impossible Dream season, a Jack Hamilton fastball struck him in the face, fracturing his left cheekbone and severely damaging his left retina. He missed the rest of that season and all of 1968, then came back in 1969 for 20 home runs and Comeback Player of the Year honors, and followed that with career highs of 36 homers and 116 RBI in 1970. The Red Sox traded him to the California Angels that October, and fading vision held him to .222 in 74 games in 1971. A 21-game return to Boston in 1975 closed his playing career. A heart attack and stroke in 1982 left him severely impaired until his death in 1990 at forty-five.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,060 | 6 | 45 | 268 | 235 | 184 | 143 | 179 | 0 |
| SGC | 151 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 37 | 41 | 28 | 29 | 1 |
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. The two checklist variations, #79 and #508, are listed under the wording PSA uses for each state.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1965 Topps #55 card?
It is card #55 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Tony Conigliaro of the Boston Red Sox.
How many cards are in the 1965 Topps Baseball set?
598 cards, tracked as 600 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 598 with no gaps and no printed-number collisions, and two checklist cards - #79 and #508 - carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, 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.