1966 Topps #393 George Brunet
About George Brunet
Fifth-series card #393 is the first to name him a California Angel and the first to report a season worth framing. He arrived at 1965 camp weighing 207 pounds, roughly 25 less than the year before, and Bill Rigney gave him 26 starts among 41 outings. Brunet answered with a team-low 2.56 ERA, eight complete games, three shutouts and 141 strikeouts over 197 innings, against a 9-11 record.
George Stuart Brunet, a left-handed pitcher born June 8, 1935, in Houghton, Michigan, signed with Detroit for $500 after a Briggs Stadium tryout in the fall of his senior year at Calumet High School and reached the majors with the Kansas City Athletics in September 1956. Over parts of 15 seasons through 1971 he also pitched for the Milwaukee Braves, Houston Colt .45's, Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles and California Angels, Seattle Pilots, Washington Senators, Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals, finishing 69-93 with a 3.62 ERA and 921 strikeouts in 324 games. His prime came in the Angels rotation from 1965 through 1968, when he twice led the American League in losses, 19 in 1967 and 17 in 1968, behind ERAs of 3.31 and 2.86. Brunet then went to Mexico and stayed, pitching there from 1973 through 1989 and drawing the nickname El Viejo, the Old Man, for working into his fifties. He threw a no-hitter at 42, set a Mexican League record with 55 shutouts, and closed a professional career of roughly 36 years. He died of a heart attack on October 25, 1991, in Poza Rica, Veracruz, and was inducted into the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 266 | 3 | 44 | 140 | 58 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 1 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 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 #393 card?
It is card #393 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing George Brunet of the California Angels.
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.