1966 Topps #474 Dick Schofield
About Dick Schofield
Schofield's 1965 opened on a high note, Bob Bailey's tenth-inning homer off Juan Marichal handing Bob Veale and the Pirates a 1-0 win, and ended in another uniform: on May 22 Pittsburgh traded him to San Francisco for Jose Pagan, opening shortstop for Gene Alley. He led National League shortstops in fielding percentage but batted only .203 as a Giant while San Francisco let a four-game September lead slip away to Los Angeles. Both 1966 cards show him with the Giants. Card #156, a second-series combination card, pairs him with fellow infielder Hal Lanier; card #474 comes from the sixth series.
John Richard "Ducky" Schofield built a 19-year major-league career as a switch-hitting infielder, breaking in with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1953 as an 18-year-old bonus baby - the first the franchise ever signed - before a June 1958 trade sent him to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Gene Freese and Johnny O'Brien. Blocked for years by shortstop Dick Groat, he became a Pittsburgh favorite in September 1960, hitting .403 after Groat's wrist was broken, though a healed Groat took the job back for the World Series that Pittsburgh went on to win. Once Groat was traded to St. Louis, Schofield finally opened at shortstop three straight years, 1963 through 1965, then moved on to the Giants, Yankees, Dodgers, Cardinals, Red Sox and Brewers as a utility man valued far more for his glove than for a .227 bat. He took his nickname from his father, a minor-league shortstop also called Ducky. Springfield, Illinois put three generations in at once, inducting Schofield, his father and his daughter Kim into its Sports Hall of Fame in 1991; he is not a National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.
Sources: SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · Baseball Almanac
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 215 | 0 | 32 | 117 | 32 | 23 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 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 Dick Schofield in this set: #156 Combo
Team card: #19 San Francisco Giants
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- #61 Bob Bolin
- #78 Frank Linzy
- #94 Matty Alou
- #115 Bill Henry
- #132 Orlando Cepeda
- #156 D P Combo
- #176 Jim Davenport
- #215 National League 1965 Batting Leaders
- #217 National League 1965 Home Run Leaders
- #219 National League 1965 RBI Leaders
- #221 National League 1965 ERA Leaders
- #242 Jesus Alou
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1966 Topps #474 card?
It is card #474 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dick Schofield of the San Francisco Giants.
Why is #474 harder to find?
It is from the sixth print series, #447-522 - noticeably tougher than the first five. Nothing in #447-522 is short-printed.
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.