1966 Topps #200 Ed Mathews
About Ed Mathews
Card 200 catches the franchise mid-move. The back reports Mathews' 1965 rebound in Milwaukee, a .251 average but 32 home runs and 95 RBI over 156 games for a fifth-place club, while the front already reads Atlanta, the name the Braves carried into Fulton County Stadium when baseball arrived in Georgia on April 12, 1966. His 28th homer of that 1965 season, hit August 20 in Pittsburgh, pushed the Mathews-Aaron teammate total to 773 and passed the 772 of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. A third-series card, and his first as an Atlanta Brave.
Edwin Lee Mathews was born in Texarkana, Texas, raised in Santa Barbara, California, and signed with the Boston Braves for a $6,000 bonus minutes after his 1949 high school graduation. He beat out Bob Elliott for the third-base job in 1952 and hit 25 homers as a 20-year-old rookie. The club moved to Milwaukee in 1953 and he became the new city's first baseball hero, batting .302 with career highs of 47 home runs and 135 RBI; he cleared 30 homers in nine straight seasons. He led the National League in home runs in 1953 and 1959, finished second in the MVP voting both years, was an All-Star in nine seasons and made the cover of the first Sports Illustrated. His tenth-inning homer won Game Four of the 1957 World Series and the Braves took the Yankees in seven. He and Hank Aaron combined for 863 home runs as teammates, the most by any pair in history, and he is the only man to play for the Braves in Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta. Dealt to Houston after 1966, he became the seventh player to reach 500 home runs, then closed out with the 1968 world champion Tigers, retiring with 512 homers and 2,315 hits. Cooperstown elected him in 1978, on his fifth ballot; he later managed Atlanta.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,067 | 1 | 34 | 238 | 268 | 180 | 157 | 188 | 1 |
| SGC | 230 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 36 | 61 | 49 | 62 | 4 |
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 #200 card?
It is card #200 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ed Mathews of the Atlanta Braves.
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.