1966 Topps #390 Brooks Robinson
About Brooks Robinson
His lone 1966 card, #390 in the fifth series, reports a 1965 shortened by a broken thumb after a Hank Aguirre fastball caught him; he played 144 games having missed just one game across the previous four seasons. He still hit .297 with 18 home runs, led the Orioles in both batting average and RBIs with 80, made his sixth straight All-Star team, and finished third in the AL MVP vote behind Minnesota's Zoilo Versalles and Tony Oliva as the Twins ran away with the pennant.
Brooks Calbert Robinson Jr. spent his entire 23-year career (1955-1977) at third base for the Baltimore Orioles, the club that signed him out of Little Rock, Arkansas for $4,000 in 1955. Lee May tagged him the Human Vacuum Cleaner during the 1970 World Series, and he is generally regarded as the greatest fielding third baseman in major-league history: an 18-time All-Star across 15 straight seasons (1960-1974) and the winner of 16 consecutive Gold Gloves (1960-1975), the most by any position player. He still holds the career records for a third baseman in putouts, assists, total chances and double plays. He was the American League Most Valuable Player in 1964, batting .317 with 28 home runs and a league-best 118 RBIs, and he anchored Baltimore's rise to four AL pennants and two World Series titles, in 1966 and 1970. His glovework in the 1970 Series against Cincinnati, where he robbed the Reds again and again while batting .429, earned him the Series MVP award. He finished with a .267 average, 2,848 hits, 268 home runs and 1,357 RBIs, all in Baltimore -- a single-franchise run since matched only by Carl Yastrzemski. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1983 on the first ballot, named on 92 percent of the ballots.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,827 | 1 | 37 | 358 | 459 | 378 | 217 | 375 | 2 |
| SGC | 459 | 0 | 1 | 29 | 81 | 110 | 94 | 135 | 9 |
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 #390 card?
It is card #390 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Brooks Robinson 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.