1966 Topps #5 Jim Fregosi
About Jim Fregosi
The Angels opened 1966 under the California name and in the new Anaheim Stadium, and Fregosi answered by taking the field in all 162 games at shortstop, only the second American League shortstop to work the position 162 times in a season. He led league shortstops in assists, double plays and range factor, and also made the most errors, 35. The new park cost him at the plate, where he slipped to .252 with 13 home runs, but he was back in the All-Star Game, playing the last five innings of a 2-1, ten-inning loss at Busch Stadium. His 1966 Topps card is number 5 in the first series.
Jim Fregosi was born in San Francisco on April 4, 1942 and won 11 varsity letters at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo before signing with the Boston Red Sox for a $20,000 bonus. Left unprotected after one Class-D season, he was taken 35th overall by the expansion Los Angeles Angels in the December 1960 expansion draft and debuted with them in September 1961. Fregosi became the young franchise's first star at shortstop, making six All-Star teams, winning a Gold Glove and leading the American League in triples across an eleven-year run with the Angels. On December 10, 1971 he was traded to the New York Mets in the four-player deal that sent Nolan Ryan to California, and he later played for the Texas Rangers and Pittsburgh Pirates before retiring in 1978 with 1,726 hits. He managed the Angels, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies and Toronto Blue Jays, guiding the 1979 Angels to their first postseason and the 1993 Phillies to a National League pennant. The Angels retired his number 11 and placed him in the club's own Angels Hall of Fame. He died in 2014.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 228 | 0 | 13 | 87 | 65 | 21 | 22 | 20 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 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 #5 card?
It is card #5 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Fregosi 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.