1966 Topps #70 Carl Yastrzemski
About Carl Yastrzemski
Two 1966 cards, both looking back at a 1965 season that finished second. #70 is the first-series solo card; #216, a third-series League Leaders card, shows Minnesota's Tony Oliva at the top of the American League batting race with Yastrzemski and Cleveland's Vic Davalillo behind him, Oliva having passed him late in the year. Yastrzemski hit .312 and led the league in on-base percentage at .395, in slugging at .536 and in OPS, with 45 doubles in only 133 games, and he took a second Gold Glove. On May 14 at Fenway he hit for the cycle against Detroit, going 5-for-5 with two home runs and tying a club record with 14 total bases.
Carl Yastrzemski was born August 22, 1939, in Southampton, New York, and grew up on his father's Long Island potato farm before signing with the Boston Red Sox in 1958 as a Notre Dame freshman. He spent his entire 23-year career (1961-1983) with that one club, taking over left field from the retiring Ted Williams as a 21-year-old rookie and shifting later to first base and designated hitter. Nicknamed Yaz, he won three American League batting titles (1963, 1967, 1968), seven Gold Gloves and eighteen All-Star selections. His signature season came in 1967, when he took the Triple Crown by leading the league in average, home runs and runs batted in, and was voted American League Most Valuable Player one vote short of unanimously while carrying the Impossible Dream Red Sox to their first pennant since 1946. He finished with 3,419 hits and 452 home runs, the first American League player to reach both 3,000 hits and 400 homers, and he is still the Red Sox all-time leader in games, hits, runs, runs batted in, doubles and total bases. Yastrzemski was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989, his first year of eligibility, with 94.6 percent of the vote. His grandson Mike Yastrzemski later reached the majors as an outfielder.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 2,673 | 1 | 59 | 372 | 489 | 531 | 445 | 775 | 1 |
| SGC | 738 | 0 | 3 | 37 | 106 | 166 | 171 | 249 | 6 |
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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Related cards
More Carl Yastrzemski in this set: #216 League Leaders
Team card: #259 Boston Red Sox
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- #6 Chuck Schilling
- #37 Billy Herman
- #53 Bob Duliba
- #93 Jim Lonborg
- #114 Jim Gosger
- #135 Dave Morehead
- #178 Bob Tillman
- #203 Jose Santiago
- #216 American League 1965 Batting Leaders
- #218 American League 1965 Home Run Leaders
- #227 Russ Nixon
- #277 George Thomas
- #298 Rico Petrocelli
- #317 Dalton Jones
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1966 Topps #70 card?
It is card #70 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox.
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.