1966 Topps #351 Fred Valentine
About Fred Valentine
Card #351 in Topps' 1966 series 4 print run, capturing Valentine coming off his breakout year. He played a career-high 146 games for Washington in 1966, starting most of them in center or right field, and set personal bests with 16 home runs and 59 RBI while batting .276. He also led the Senators in runs scored, hits and doubles that season.
Fred Valentine was a switch-hitting outfielder from Clarksdale, Mississippi, who starred at Tennessee State before signing with the Baltimore Orioles in 1956. He spent several seasons shuttling between the Orioles and their top farm clubs, appearing briefly in the majors in 1959 and 1963, before Washington purchased his contract that October. He became a regular for the Senators in 1964. His best season came in 1966, when he hit .276 with 16 home runs and 59 RBI while leading the club in runs, hits and doubles as a starting outfielder. He remained a fixture in the Washington outfield through 1967 before being traded back to Baltimore in mid-1968, closing out a seven-year major league career split between the two clubs. Over 533 games he batted .247 with 36 home runs, 138 RBI and 47 stolen bases. After his major league career he played a season in Japan for the Hanshin Tigers before retiring from professional baseball.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 183 | 1 | 21 | 105 | 35 | 13 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 6 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1966 Topps #351 card?
It is card #351 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Fred Valentine of the Washington Senators.
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.