1966 Topps #93 Jim Lonborg
double-printed within its series, so it turns up somewhat more often than other cards from that print run
About Jim Lonborg
Card #93 sits in the first series of 1966 Topps, a double print that turned up more often in packs than the single-printed numbers around it. It catches Lonborg a year before the breakout, coming off a 10-10 season with a 3.86 ERA, 23 starts and 181.2 innings. Boston's young gloves were part of the improvement: shortstop Rico Petrocelli and first baseman George Scott were finally gobbling up the grounders his sinking stuff produced.
James Reynold Lonborg, a 6-foot-5 Stanford right-hander, signed with the Boston Red Sox in August 1963 for a $25,000 bonus, more than Baltimore offered. He reached the majors in 1965, went 9-17 with a 4.47 ERA as a groundball pitcher behind a leaky defense, then 10-10 in 1966. In 1967 he carried the Impossible Dream pennant race at 22-9 with a 3.16 ERA, tying for the American League lead in wins and starts and leading it with 246 strikeouts. Named an All-Star that July, he beat Minnesota on the final day to clinch the pennant, then threw a World Series one-hit shutout and a second complete-game win before losing Game Seven on two days rest as St. Louis took the Series four games to three. He became the first Red Sox pitcher to win the Cy Young Award. Skiing that December he tore ligaments in his left knee, and the shoulder trouble that followed cut his workload through 1971. Traded to Milwaukee and then Philadelphia, he won 17 games in 1974 and 18 in 1976, losing his only start in each of the 1976 and 1977 NL Championship Series. He finished 157-137, pitched last in 1979, then practiced dentistry in Massachusetts. Not a National Baseball Hall of Famer, he was elected to the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2002.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 305 | 2 | 26 | 122 | 83 | 38 | 15 | 19 | 0 |
| SGC | 21 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 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 #93 card?
It is card #93 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Lonborg of the Boston Red Sox.
Is 1966 Topps #93 a scarce card?
It is a double print card (cards 30, 36, 50, 90, 93, 100). Six first-series cards were printed in double quantity: Pete Rose, Catfish Hunter, Mickey Mantle, Luis Aparicio, Jim Lonborg (#93) and Sandy Koufax. A double print is more plentiful, not scarcer - Mantle stays a set keystone regardless.
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.