1966 Topps #148 Bob Johnson
About Bob Johnson
Johnson's playing time shrank in the championship year - 71 games, a .217 average, one home run and 10 RBIs, with 36 trips to the plate as a pinch hitter - but he was there for the first pennant the franchise won after moving from St. Louis to Baltimore. He remembered owner Jerold Hoffberger, president of the brewery behind National Bohemian, ordering beer rather than champagne sprayed around the clinching clubhouse in September. Baltimore then swept the Dodgers using only 13 players, and Johnson was one of the dozen who never appeared; his winner's share of $11,683 he called the largest unemployment check he ever received. Card #148 is a second-series card.
Robert Wallace Johnson, born March 4, 1936, in Omaha, Nebraska, grew up in Edina, Minnesota, and signed with the Detroit Tigers out of high school in 1954. He spent six seasons in Detroit's minor-league chain before the Kansas City Athletics took him in the Rule 5 draft in November 1959. Over an 11-year major-league career from 1960 to 1970, Johnson played every infield position for seven clubs, valued as a versatile fill-in and a dangerous pinch hitter; he led the American League in pinch hits in 1964 and the National League in pinch hits in 1967. Kansas City teammate Bill Tuttle tagged him Rocky for his resemblance to slugger Rocky Colavito. Johnson was a member of the Baltimore Orioles' 1966 World Series championship team, though he never got into the Series. He finished with a .272 batting average, 44 home runs and 230 RBIs in 874 games across stints with the Athletics, Senators, Orioles, Mets, Reds, Braves, Cardinals and the Athletics again, by then in Oakland. After retiring he returned to Minnesota and worked in sales. He died in St. Paul in November 2019 at 83.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · Baseball Almanac
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 190 | 0 | 25 | 96 | 38 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 3 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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 #148 card?
It is card #148 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bob Johnson of the Baltimore Orioles.
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.