1966 Topps #336 Gene Alley
About Gene Alley
1966 was Alley's finest all-around season: he hit a career-high .299 with seven home runs, 43 RBI and 88 runs scored, and set a Pirates single-season record with 128 double plays turned at shortstop. His .979 fielding percentage helped the Pirates set a National League record of 215 team double plays, and he won his first Gold Glove Award and his first Sporting News All-Star selection. His 1966 Topps #336, from the fourth print series, is a solo card.
Leonard Eugene Alley, born July 10, 1940 in Richmond, Virginia, was a shortstop who spent his entire eleven-season major league career (1963-1973) with the Pittsburgh Pirates. After several years bouncing among third base, second base and the outfield in the minors while nursing a throwing-arm problem, he settled in at shortstop and paired with Bill Mazeroski to anchor one of the game's best double-play combinations. Alley won Gold Glove Awards in 1966 and 1967, was named to The Sporting News All-Star team both years, and earned back-to-back National League All-Star selections in 1967 and 1968. His signature season came in 1966, when he hit a career-high .299 and helped the Pirates set a National League record with 215 double plays. Alley was part of Pittsburgh's three straight NL East division titles from 1970-1972 and was the Pirates' regular shortstop during their 1971 World Series championship season, though a knee injury limited him to just a handful of games that postseason. Shoulder and knee problems shortened his career, and he retired after the 1973 season. He earned the nickname Alley Oop after a standout 1960 season in the Northern League. He is not a National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, though he was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1998.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 159 | 2 | 15 | 67 | 46 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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 #336 card?
It is card #336 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Gene Alley of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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.