1966 Topps #276 Jim Bouton
About Jim Bouton
Series-3 card #276 reports the season that changed Bouton's career. He arrived at spring training in 1965 with a sore bicep, decided with the Yankees to pitch through it, and the arm never really recovered: 4-15 with a 4.82 ERA in 30 games while New York fell to 77-85 and sixth place, its first losing record since 1925. Collectors chasing this one have a second version to find, since #276 falls inside the first 370 cards that Topps also printed on the darker, thinner stock made for the Venezuelan market.
Jim Bouton signed with the New York Yankees for a $30,000 bonus and reached the majors in April 1962, working as a swingman for a club that won the World Series that fall; his tenacity on the mound earned him the nickname Bulldog. He broke through in 1963 at 21-7 with a 2.53 ERA and made his only All-Star team, then went 18-13 in 1964 and won both of his World Series starts as the Yankees fell to St. Louis in seven games. His career World Series mark is 2-1 with a 1.48 ERA across three starts. A sore bicep in 1965 cost him his fastball, and after several losing seasons he rebuilt himself around a knuckleball, carrying him to the expansion Seattle Pilots and then the Houston Astros in 1969. He turned that season into Ball Four (1970), a diary whose candor about clubhouse drinking, amphetamines and womanizing drew a public rebuke from Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who called it detrimental to baseball; it later became the only sports book on the New York Public Library's Books of the Century list. He pitched once more in the majors, for Atlanta in 1978 after an eight-year absence, and later worked as a broadcaster and actor. He died on July 10, 2019, at 80, of cerebral amyloid angiopathy.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 355 | 2 | 45 | 157 | 76 | 39 | 22 | 14 | 0 |
| SGC | 18 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 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 #276 card?
It is card #276 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Bouton of the New York Yankees.
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.