1966 Topps #115 Bill Henry
About Bill Henry
Card #115 lands in the 1966 set's second series and is the first card in this run to list Henry with San Francisco. The Giants used him in short bursts: 35 appearances covering only 22 innings, with nine games finished and a single save. The work was sharp all the same, a 2.45 ERA and a 1-1 record built on 15 hits allowed across the whole season. San Francisco released him once the year ended, then reconsidered and re-signed him in time for 1967.
Bill Henry was a left-handed relief pitcher from Alice, Texas, who starred in basketball and track at Pasadena High School, which fielded no baseball team, and did not pitch in organized baseball until he turned professional in 1948. Four minor league seasons brought him to the Boston Red Sox in 1952, and he spent four years with Boston, three of them split with the high minors, working mainly as a starter. The Red Sox traded him to the Chicago Cubs in January 1957, and after the Cubs converted him to relief he became a National League workhorse, tying teammate Don Elston for the league lead with 65 games pitched in 1959. A December 1959 trade sent him to Cincinnati for six productive seasons: an All-Star selection in 1960, 64 saves as a Red, and two appearances in the 1961 World Series. He moved to San Francisco in May 1965 and pitched until he was 41, closing a 16-year career with brief stops in Pittsburgh and Houston at 527 games, a 46-50 record, 90 saves and a 3.26 ERA. Quiet enough that teammates called him Gabby, he later worked the Houston docks as a longshoreman and entered his Pasadena school district's athletics hall of fame in 2012.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 175 | 0 | 18 | 90 | 42 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 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. Where SGC registers no separate row for a variation state, its slabs of that card are listed under the base state.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1966 Topps #115 card?
It is card #115 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bill Henry of the San Francisco Giants.
Which Bill Henry is on #115?
The left-handed pitcher Bill Henry, not the outfielder of the same name who played two games for the Astros in 1966. #115 is also the line that varies on the #101 checklist, which reads "Warren Spahn" there in its error state.
How many cards are in the 1966 Topps Baseball set?
598 cards, tracked as 613 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 598 with no gaps and no number used twice, and 14 cards carry catalogued print variations - five checklists, the trade and sold statement backs, the three-state #43 Don Landrum, three team-card dot pairs and the #161 Jerry Lumpe white streak - that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, 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.