1966 Topps #411 Gene Mauch
About this card
One of twenty manager cards in the 1966 Topps set: the Astros have two (#147 Lum Harris and #504 Grady Hatton) and the Cubs have none.
About Gene Mauch
Topps' fifth series for 1966 includes Gene Mauch at 411, a year after his Phillies went 85-76 and finished eleven and a half games behind the pennant-winning Dodgers. The distinction of that season came in the All-Star Game: with Johnny Keane having left St. Louis for the Yankees after winning the 1964 pennant, Mauch was handed the National League club for the 1965 exhibition, and his side won it 6-5. That was recognition of standing rather than of standings, a nod from the game to a manager whose team had drifted out of the race.
Gene Mauch built one of the longest managerial careers in major league history despite never playing more than 72 games in a big league season himself. Born in Salina, Kansas, and raised mostly in Los Angeles, he broke in as a light-hitting infielder with six clubs over parts of nine seasons, batting .239, before turning to managing and taking the Minneapolis Millers to the 1958 Junior World Series title. Hired to run the Philadelphia Phillies in 1960 at 34, the youngest manager in the majors, he lifted a last-place club into a contender with his signature approach: bunting, base-to-base advancement, defense and speed, a brand of play called small ball. He managed the Phillies through parts of nine seasons, then ran the expansion Montreal Expos, the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels, retiring in 1988 with 1,902 wins, eighth on the all-time list at the time. Three times his clubs came within a single victory of the World Series; none won a pennant, a distinction that shadowed an otherwise widely respected career. Montreal later placed him in the Expos Hall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 209 | 2 | 31 | 107 | 42 | 19 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 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 #411 card?
It is card #411 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Gene Mauch of the Philadelphia Phillies. One of twenty manager cards in the 1966 Topps set: the Astros have two (#147 Lum Harris and #504 Grady Hatton) and the Cubs have none.
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.