1966 Topps #135 Dave Morehead
About Dave Morehead
Card #135 is an early series-2 number, and the season behind it was the loudest of Morehead's career: a career-best 163 strikeouts in 192 2/3 innings, 113 walks, a 4.06 ERA and a 10-18 record for a ninth-place Red Sox club that lost 100 games. The hitless September 16 afternoon that made his name was a duel, with Luis Tiant striking out 11 for Cleveland and losing 2-0, and only 1,247 paying customers saw it, the smallest Fenway crowd of the year.
David Michael Morehead was a right-handed pitcher who spent eight major league seasons (1963-1970), the first six with the Boston Red Sox and the last two with the expansion Kansas City Royals. Signed by scout Ray Boone off a 16-0 senior season at San Diego's Hoover High School, the school that also produced Ted Williams, he was in a big league rotation less than two years later and opened his career with a five-hit, 10-strikeout, 3-0 shutout of Washington on April 13, 1963. On September 16, 1965 he no-hit the Cleveland Indians 2-0, walking only Rocky Colavito. It was the last no-hitter by a Red Sox pitcher until Hideo Nomo's in 2001, and the last thrown at Fenway Park until Derek Lowe's in 2002. A shoulder injury early the following season cost him his rotation job, and he never held a regular starting role again. He finished 40-64 with a 4.15 ERA and 627 strikeouts in 177 games and 819 1/3 innings, then earned a marketing degree from San Diego State University and built a business selling sporting goods to retail chains.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 194 | 3 | 22 | 114 | 36 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 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 #135 card?
It is card #135 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dave Morehead 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.
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