1965 Topps #470 Yogi Berra
The front carries Berra's player-coach designation.
About Yogi Berra
Card #470 puts Berra in a Mets uniform with a player-coach designation, a sixth-series card, and the only card of this decade showing him out of Yankee pinstripes. The Mets signed him on April 27, 1965 to coach for Casey Stengel and catch if needed. He got into four games, started two behind the plate, went 2-for-9, and played his last game on May 9, three days shy of turning 40.
Lawrence Peter Berra grew up on The Hill, the Italian neighborhood of St. Louis, and quit school after the eighth grade. Friends started calling him Yogi after a movie about India, deciding he sat with his arms and legs crossed waiting to bat just like the yogi on the screen. He signed with the Yankees for the $500 bonus the Cardinals would not pay him, spent 1943 at Norfolk, then joined the Navy and fired rockets and machine guns from a six-man rocket boat off the Normandy coast on D-Day. He debuted on September 22, 1946, and gave New York 18 seasons, most of them behind the plate, retiring after 1963 with a .285 average, 2,150 hits, 358 home runs and 1,430 RBI. He was the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1951, 1954 and 1955, was picked for 18 All-Star Games, caught Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, and played on ten world champions, more than any other player in history. He later managed the Yankees to the 1964 pennant and the Mets to the 1973 pennant, the second manager after Joe McCarthy to win one in each league. Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972, he stayed as famous for his Yogi-isms as for his bat, and died in 2015 at 90.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,842 | 3 | 86 | 460 | 397 | 333 | 217 | 345 | 1 |
| SGC | 437 | 0 | 4 | 34 | 79 | 84 | 94 | 138 | 4 |
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 #470 card?
It is card #470 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Yogi Berra of the New York Mets.
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.