1966 Topps #8 Floyd Robinson
About Floyd Robinson
Robinson's two 1966 Topps cards report a 1965 season of 156 games, a career-high 14 home runs, 66 RBI, 153 hits and a .265 average, his lowest full-season mark to that point. Card #8 is an early series-1 number; card #199, 'Chisox Clubbers,' groups him with Chicago run producers Bill Skowron and Johnny Romano in series 3. It was the last big offensive year of his career, though the late runs kept coming, among them a sacrifice fly in the 11th inning against Cleveland on September 17.
Floyd Robinson, a left-handed-hitting outfielder, signed with the Pacific Coast League's San Diego Padres out of San Diego High School in 1954 for a reported $500 bonus. After two years in the Marine Corps he was discharged in March 1960, and the Chicago White Sox took him through their San Diego working agreement; he debuted that August 10. Robinson spent seven seasons in Chicago, hit over .300 three times and tied for third in the 1961 American League Rookie of the Year vote. His best came in 1962: a .312 average, 109 RBI and a league-leading 45 doubles. Chicago traded him to Cincinnati for Jim O'Toole in December 1966; Oakland got him the following November, and Boston bought his contract in July 1968, his final season. He retired at .283 with 929 hits and 67 home runs in nine years, then ran a liquor store, built low-income senior housing and started the Floyd Robinson Foundation in 2007 to fund college grants for San Diego County graduates. San Diego's Breitbard Hall of Fame inducted him in 2009.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 218 | 2 | 21 | 107 | 56 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
| SGC | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 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 Floyd Robinson in this set: #199 Combo
Team card: #426 Chicago White Sox
More Chicago White Sox cards:
- #25 Pete Ward
- #47 J.C. Martin
- #66 Al Weis
- #85 Eddie Fisher
- #111 Gary Peters
- #127 Ken Berry
- #141 Tom McCraw
- #164 White Sox 1966 Rookie Stars
- #199 ChiSox Clubbers
- #222 American League 1965 ERA Leaders
- #245 John Buzhardt
- #261 Ron Hansen
- #281 Bruce Howard
- #301 Greg Bollo
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1966 Topps #8 card?
It is card #8 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Floyd Robinson of the Chicago White Sox.
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.