1966 Topps #37 Billy Herman
About this card
One of twenty manager cards in the 1966 Topps set: the Astros have two (#147 Lum Harris and #504 Grady Hatton) and the Cubs have none.
About Billy Herman
Series one of the 1966 set carries Herman at card #37, a low number printed early. The season it fronted was his last in uniform as a manager: Boston went 64-82 under him and was sitting ninth when the club fired him in September 1966. That closed his major league managing record at 189-274, and he never ran another big-league club, though he stayed in the game as a coach with the California Angels in 1967.
Billy Herman was a slick-fielding second baseman for 15 major league seasons, breaking in with the Chicago Cubs in 1931 and anchoring their infield until a 1941 trade sent him to the Brooklyn Dodgers, who won the National League pennant that fall. A ten-time All-Star from 1934 through 1943, he batted .304 for his career with 2,345 hits and 1,163 runs, hit as high as .341 in 1935, and drove in a career-best 100 runs for the 1943 Dodgers. He led the National League in putouts by a second baseman seven times and still holds the league single-season record at the position. Herman reached four World Series - 1932, 1935 and 1938 with the Cubs, 1941 with Brooklyn - and lost all four. He missed 1944 and 1945 serving in the Navy during World War II, returned to split 1946 between Brooklyn and the Boston Braves, and finished as the Pittsburgh Pirates' player-manager in 1947. He coached for the Dodgers, including their 1955 World Series winner, then for the Braves and the Red Sox before managing Boston from the end of 1964 into September 1966. The Veterans Committee elected him to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1975.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 315 | 2 | 34 | 161 | 61 | 26 | 16 | 15 | 0 |
| SGC | 16 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 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 #37 card?
It is card #37 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Billy Herman of the Boston Red Sox. One of twenty manager cards in the 1966 Topps set: the Astros have two (#147 Lum Harris and #504 Grady Hatton) and the Cubs have none.
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.