1966 Topps #274 Buster Narum
About Buster Narum
After working over the previous winter with former All-Star Sid Hudson to develop a curveball, Narum entered 1966 planning to lean on the new pitch as his primary weapon. The season went poorly at the major league level: he was hit hard for a 21.60 ERA across three April relief appearances for the Senators before being sent down to the Triple-A Hawaii Islanders, where reports cited a stretch of physical ailments. This 1966 Topps #274 pictures him with the Washington Senators.
Leslie "Buster" Narum was a right-handed pitcher from Clearwater, Florida, who signed with the Baltimore Orioles at 17 for a $25,000 bonus in 1958. He broke in with Baltimore in 1963, and on May 3 of that year became just the second American League pitcher to homer in his first major league at-bat, taking Detroit's Don Mossi deep at Tiger Stadium. Traded to the Washington Senators in the deal that later brought Lou Piniella to Baltimore, Narum settled into the Senators' rotation and threw a career-high 199 innings in 1964. He worked with former All-Star Sid Hudson to add a curveball to his arsenal in the mid-1960s and closed his career with two starts against Baltimore in September 1967, beating the Orioles in his final big league outing. Over five seasons he went 14-27 with a 4.45 ERA in 96 games, adding three home runs among his seven career hits in 118 at-bats.
Sources: SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 204 | 0 | 28 | 98 | 48 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 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 #274 card?
It is card #274 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Buster Narum of the Washington Senators.
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.