1966 Topps #440 Deron Johnson
About Deron Johnson
Two 1966 cards. The third-series #219 is the National League RBI leaders card: Johnson's 130 over Frank Robinson's 113 and Willie Mays's 112. Topps still has Robinson in Cincinnati flannels, though the Reds had traded him to Baltimore on December 9, 1965. Fifth-series #440 is Johnson's own, and 1966 scattered him around the field - 105 games in left, 70 at first, 18 at third - while he hit .257 with 24 homers and 81 RBI.
Deron Johnson was an American infielder and outfielder who played 16 major-league seasons between 1960 and 1976 for the Yankees, the Athletics in both Kansas City and Oakland, the Reds, Braves, Phillies, Brewers, Red Sox and White Sox. Signed by the Yankees out of San Diego High School in 1956, where he had starred at end on the football field as well, he was billed for years as the next Mickey Mantle and spent most of his early twenties in the minors instead. Cincinnati bought him in 1963 and got the payoff: he led the National League with 130 runs batted in during 1965 and finished fourth in the MVP voting. He later set a career high of 34 home runs for Philadelphia, and won a World Series ring with the 1973 Oakland Athletics. He retired with 1,765 games played, a .244 average, 245 home runs and 923 RBI, and was never once chosen for an All-Star Game. Johnson coached hitting in the majors for twelve seasons and died of lung cancer in 1992 at 53. San Diego's Hall of Champions had inducted him into its Breitbard Hall of Fame in 1979.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 182 | 1 | 19 | 92 | 39 | 17 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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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Related cards
More Deron Johnson in this set: #219 League Leaders
Team card: #59 Cincinnati Reds
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- #12 John Tsitouris
- #30 Pete Rose
- #72 Tony Perez
- #89 Ted Davidson
- #119 Art Shamsky
- #140 Jim Maloney
- #159 Chico Ruiz
- #180 Vada Pinson
- #196 Don Pavletich
- #214 Tommy Harper
- #219 National League 1965 RBI Leaders
- #233 Dom Zanni
- #250 Sam Ellis
- #269 Don Heffner
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1966 Topps #440 card?
It is card #440 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Deron Johnson of the Cincinnati Reds.
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.