1966 Topps #339 Del Crandall
About Del Crandall
Cleveland handed the 36-year-old the Opening Day assignment, with Sam McDowell on the mound, then used him behind Joe Azcue the rest of the way: 50 games, a .231 average and 4 home runs for an 81-81 Indians club. Crandall served as the personal catcher for McDowell, the hard-throwing left-hander who struck out 225 in 194 innings that year, and drew praise for his patience with him. Topps #339 is the last card of his playing career - a mid-series number. He retired after the season with 1,479 games caught.
Delmar Wesley Crandall, born March 5, 1930 in Ontario, California, signed with the Boston Braves as an amateur free agent out of Fullerton Union High School and reached the majors at 19 in 1949, taking over for Bill Salkeld to become the youngest starting catcher in the game's history. After a two-year Army hitch during the Korean War he came back in 1953 to a franchise newly moved to Milwaukee, took the regular job from Walker Cooper and held it eight seasons, building a reputation as the era's best defensive catcher on a rifle arm and quick feet. He led National League catchers in assists six times, fielding percentage four times and putouts three times, was named to eight All-Star teams and played in eleven All-Star Games in the years of two a summer, and won four Gold Gloves. Crandall handled Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette and Bob Buhl through pennants in 1957 and 1958, homering in the deciding Game Seven of both World Series and helping Milwaukee win the 1957 title. A right-handed power hitter for a catcher, he cleared 20 home runs three times and finished in 1966 with 179 homers, 657 runs batted in and a .254 average. Milwaukee elected him to the Braves Hall of Fame in 2003.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 208 | 2 | 32 | 109 | 39 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 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 #339 card?
It is card #339 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Del Crandall of the Cleveland Indians.
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.