1966 Topps #288 Dodgers Rookie Stars - Bill Singer / Don Sutton
On this card: Bill Singer, Don Sutton
Rookie card of Hall of Famer Don Sutton, who shares this Dodgers Rookie Stars card with Bill Singer.
About this card
The 46 Rookie Stars cards group a club's prospects under one number - except #553, which mixes Braves and Angels, and #591 NL Rookie Stars, which mixes Dodgers and Phillies. The class is headlined by #254 (Ferguson Jenkins, with Bill Sorrell) and #288 (Don Sutton, with Bill Singer).
The story on this card
For the third straight year Singer opened with Spokane and closed with the Dodgers, and this was his last season in the minors: 13-11 with a 3.48 ERA and 217 strikeouts across 233 innings, then three September relief appearances in Los Angeles covering four scoreless innings. His card that year, number 288 in the fourth print series, is the Dodgers Rookie Stars issue that serves as the rookie card of both Singer and Don Sutton, the future Hall of Famer pictured beside him. Dodgers and Angels right-hander who won 20 games in both leagues, threw a 1970 no-hitter against the Phillies, and made two All-Star teams over a 14-year career shot through with injuries.
Topps put Sutton on card #288 of the 1966 set, a Dodgers Rookie Stars pairing with fellow right-hander Bill Singer, and it is one of the set's three Hall of Fame rookie cards. Sutton made the club out of his first big league camp as the fourth starter behind Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Claude Osteen, debuted April 14 against Houston, and beat the Astros four days later for his first win. He finished 12-12 with a 2.99 ERA in 225 and two-thirds innings and struck out 209, the most by a rookie since 1911, before a pulled forearm muscle on September 5 cost him most of the pennant race and any World Series work. A command-and-durability right-hander rather than a power arm, Don Sutton won 324 games and struck out 3,574 batters over 23 seasons, 16 of them with the Dodgers. A four-time All-Star long suspected of scuffing baseballs, he reached Cooperstown in 1998.
Sources: Wikipedia (Bill Singer) · Wikipedia (Don Sutton) · SABR BioProject (Bill Singer) · SABR BioProject (Don Sutton)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 3,117 | 4 | 54 | 316 | 558 | 656 | 514 | 1,005 | 10 |
| SGC | 924 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 108 | 171 | 245 | 356 | 21 |
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 #288 card?
It is card #288 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bill Singer and Don Sutton. The 46 Rookie Stars cards group a club's prospects under one number - except #553, which mixes Braves and Angels, and #591 NL Rookie Stars, which mixes Dodgers and Phillies. The class is headlined by #254 (Ferguson Jenkins, with Bill Sorrell) and #288 (Don Sutton, with Bill Singer).
Is 1966 Topps #288 a rookie card?
Yes - #288 is a rookie card for every player pictured on it: Bill Singer and Don Sutton.
What are the key cards in the 1966 Topps set?
#1 Willie Mays opens the set and #598 Gaylord Perry closes it. The #50 Mickey Mantle anchors it, with #30 Pete Rose, #100 Sandy Koufax (his last solo Topps card), #300 Bob Clemente, #500 Hank Aaron (his first base card as an Atlanta Brave) and #215 National League 1965 Batting Leaders (Clemente, Aaron and Mays on one card) among the headliners, and three Hall of Fame rookies: #126 Jim Palmer, #254 Phillies Rookie Stars (Ferguson Jenkins) and #288 Dodgers Rookie Stars (Don Sutton). The 76-card high series (#523-598) is the hardest run to complete - 43 of its cards are short prints.
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.