1966 Topps #187 Chuck Dressen
About this card
One of twenty manager cards in the 1966 Topps set: the Astros have two (#147 Lum Harris and #504 Grady Hatton) and the Cubs have none.
About Chuck Dressen
Card #187 is a plain second-series number in the 1966 set, with none of the high-number scarcity attached, and it turned out to be the last Topps card Chuck Dressen ever had. Detroit was 16-10 and three games behind Cleveland on May 16 when a heart attack - his second in two years - put him in the hospital. Coach Bob Swift took over as acting manager; when Swift himself was hospitalized that July, fellow coach Frank Skaff finished the season. Dressen never returned to the dugout. A kidney infection set in while he was recovering, and he died of cardiac arrest in a Detroit hospital on August 10, 1966, at 71 - four years older than the 67 his baseball records had long claimed.
Chuck Dressen was a Decatur, Illinois-born third baseman and manager whose career in professional baseball spanned nearly five decades. He played for the Cincinnati Reds from 1925 to 1931 and closed his playing days with a late-season stint for the 1933 New York Giants, batting .272 over 646 big-league games. He first managed Cincinnati from 1934 to 1937, then coached under Leo Durocher with the Brooklyn Dodgers and under Bucky Harris with the New York Yankees before taking over as Brooklyn's manager from 1951 to 1953, winning two National League pennants with the 'Boys of Summer' teams built around Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Robinson and Duke Snider. He later managed the Washington Senators, the Milwaukee Braves and the Detroit Tigers, and also skippered the Oakland Oaks and Toronto Maple Leafs in the minor leagues. His career managerial record stood at 1,008-973, and he rode three World Series winners: the 1933 Giants as a player, though he never got into that Series, and the 1947 Yankees and 1959 Los Angeles Dodgers as a coach. Known for his supreme self-confidence, he liked to tell his players, 'Just hold them for a few innings, fellas. I'll think of something.'
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 172 | 4 | 25 | 75 | 40 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 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 #187 card?
It is card #187 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Chuck Dressen of the Detroit Tigers. One of twenty manager cards in the 1966 Topps set: the Astros have two (#147 Lum Harris and #504 Grady Hatton) and the Cubs have none.
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.