1966 Topps #91 Bob Uecker
The back comes two ways: one whose bio ends with a line noting Uecker's October 1965 trade to the Phillies, one without it. Copies without the line are the scarcer and pricier of the two.
About Bob Uecker
1966 Topps #91 is a first-series card, but it is his one card with a real variation story. Topps still had him as a Cardinal though he had been dealt to Philadelphia on October 27, 1965, and the back exists two ways: one whose bio ends with a line noting that trade, one with no such line. Copies without the line are the scarcer and pricier of the pair. The same six-player deal sent Dick Groat and Bill White east with him for Pat Corrales, Alex Johnson and Art Mahaffey, and Groat's 1966 card carries the same variation. The season was his best: 78 games, a career-high 43 hits, and seven of his 14 home runs, platooning with Clay Dalrymple.
Robert George Uecker (January 26, 1934 - January 16, 2025) grew up in Milwaukee, left a technical high school there without finishing, and enlisted in the Army in 1954, playing service ball at Fort Leonard Wood and Fort Belvoir with future Cardinals teammate Dick Groat. Out of the service he signed with his hometown Braves in 1956 for a $3,000 bonus, spent six years in their farm system, and reached the majors at 28. He caught six seasons, 1962 through 1967, for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies, nearly always as a backup: 297 games, 146 hits, 14 home runs, 74 runs batted in, and a career average of exactly .200. He was a genuinely good receiver, finishing at .981 in the field, and he was a Cardinal when St. Louis won the 1964 World Series. Released in April 1968, he turned storytelling into a much larger second act: Milwaukee Brewers play-by-play for 54 seasons beginning in 1971, close to 100 appearances on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show - Carson is the one who dubbed him Mr. Baseball - George Owens on Mr. Belvedere, and announcer Harry Doyle in the Major League movies. The National Baseball Hall of Fame gave him its Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting in 2003.
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Print variations
Two states of #91 are tracked individually: 91a - No Trade Statement and 91b - With Trade Statement. The difference is on the back of the card (trade statement).
States catalogued by the PSA master set registry and the Trading Card Database; each is tracked here individually.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 91a - No Trade Statement | |||||||||
| PSA | 219 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 31 | 67 | 39 | 63 | 2 |
| SGC | 258 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 55 | 71 | 108 | 6 |
| 91b - With Trade Statement | |||||||||
| PSA | 736 | 1 | 12 | 98 | 134 | 158 | 108 | 223 | 2 |
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 a grader registers a variation separately its population is listed under that variation. 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 #91 card?
It is card #91 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bob Uecker of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Does 1966 Topps #91 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked individually: 91a - No Trade Statement (No trade line on the back - the base state here) and 91b - With Trade Statement (The last line of the bio reports Uecker's trade to Philadelphia; the front still shows the Cardinals. The best-known variation pair in the set). Owning any one of them fills the #91 slot; the master set counts each 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.