1966 Topps #389 Jim O'Toole
About Jim O'Toole
O'Toole's 1966 Topps card, #389, a series-5 issue, reports a wrecked 1965: 3-10 with a 5.92 ERA in 29 games. Dick Sisler, in his first full season as Cincinnati's manager, still gave him the Opening Day ball, but O'Toole lost it and was soon 0-5. Sisler had gone to a five-day starting rotation rather than the four days O'Toole had always worked on, and the left-hander never found his rhythm on the extra rest; he finished nearly 100 innings short of his 1964 workload.
James Jerome O'Toole was born January 10, 1937, on Chicago's South Side, the son of a city policeman who taught him to box. A self-described cocky kid, he picked up the nickname 'Rocky' and fought Golden Gloves. He attended Leo High School, which had no baseball team, so he learned to pitch on the sandlots before a season at the University of Wisconsin. A 9-1 summer for Mitchell in South Dakota's Basin League brought a $50,000 bonus from Cincinnati. The left-hander won 20 games at Double-A Nashville in 1958 and debuted for the Reds that September 26. He joined the rotation in 1959 and was a fixture in it through 1964. In 1961 he went 19-9 with a 3.10 ERA as Cincinnati took the pennant, then started Games One and Four of the World Series and lost both to Whitey Ford. Three more double-digit-win seasons followed; he made his only All-Star team in 1963 and pitched to a 2.66 ERA in 1964, the best of his full seasons. Traded to the Chicago White Sox for 1967, his last major-league year, he finished 98-84 with 1,039 strikeouts in ten seasons. Cincinnati elected him to the Reds Hall of Fame in 1970, his first year of eligibility. He died in Cincinnati in 2015.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 183 | 3 | 24 | 97 | 39 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 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 #389 card?
It is card #389 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim O'Toole of the Cincinnati Reds.
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.