1965 Topps #566 Yankees Rookie Stars - Gil Blanco / Art Lopez / Ross Moschitto
On this card: Gil Blanco, Art Lopez, Ross Moschitto
About this card
This is one of the 55 Rookie Stars cards in the 1965 Topps set, each picturing two to four young players - 126 players in all - under a team banner, except #577 and #581, which carry American League and National League banners over players from three clubs. Joe Morgan (#16), Steve Carlton (#477), Jim (Catfish) Hunter (#526) and Tony Perez (#581) make their Topps debuts on these cards.
The story on this card
Blanco's only Yankees card, and his rookie card, is 1965 Topps #566, the 'Yankees Rookie Stars' issue he shares with Art Lopez and Ross Moschitto. It sits in the seventh series, a high number inside the set's short-print zone. That season the teenager worked almost exclusively out of the bullpen, making 17 appearances with one start and going 1-1 with a 3.98 ERA over 20 and a third innings for a sixth-place club that finished 77-85. Gil Blanco was a 6-foot-5 left-hander from Phoenix who reached the majors at 19 with the 1965 Yankees, was traded to Kansas City the following June, and threw his last big-league pitch before turning 21.
Lopez made the Yankees roster in 1965 after climbing from Class D to Triple-A Richmond in four seasons, and he appeared in 38 games that year, his only major league season, batting .143 with seven hits in 49 at-bats and five runs scored. This 1965 Topps card is card number 566, a high number from the set's seventh and final print series, inside its short-print zone, part of a multi-player Rookie Stars subset shared with fellow Yankees prospects Gil Blanco and Ross Moschitto. It stands as Lopez's rookie card. Puerto Rican outfielder who spent one season with the Yankees before becoming the first Puerto Rican to play in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, where he hit .290 with 116 home runs over six seasons.
Moschitto made his major league debut with the Yankees on April 15, 1965, appearing in 96 games that rookie season, almost entirely as a late-inning outfield replacement, and batting just 27 times for a .185 average with one home run and three RBI. His 1965 Topps #566 card is a Rookie Stars issue from the final print series, sharing space with Art Lopez and Gil Blanco. A Fresno-born Yankees outfielder of the mid-1960s, used mainly as a late-inning defensive replacement and pinch runner rather than a regular hitter during his brief two-season big-league career.
Sources: Wikipedia (Gil Blanco) · Wikipedia (Ross Moschitto) · SABR BioProject · Baseball Almanac (Gil Blanco) · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (2)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 482 | 4 | 72 | 242 | 89 | 42 | 15 | 15 | 3 |
| SGC | 44 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 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 #566 card?
It is card #566 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Gil Blanco, Art Lopez and Ross Moschitto. This is one of the 55 Rookie Stars cards in the 1965 Topps set, each picturing two to four young players - 126 players in all - under a team banner, except #577 and #581, which carry American League and National League banners over players from three clubs. Joe Morgan (#16), Steve Carlton (#477), Jim (Catfish) Hunter (#526) and Tony Perez (#581) make their Topps debuts on these cards.
Is 1965 Topps #566 a rookie card?
Yes - #566 is a rookie card for every player pictured on it: Gil Blanco, Art Lopez and Ross Moschitto.
Is 1965 Topps #566 a scarce card?
It is a high number card from the seventh and last series, #507-598. Unlike most 1960s Topps sets the 1965 highs are not scarce as a run - the premium sits on the short-printed cards inside #523-598. It is also a short-print zone card. Forty-four of the 76 cards in #523-598 were short-printed; #507-522 was not. The zone is stated as a range because the catalogs disagree on exactly which cards, so no single card is marked.
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.