1966 Topps #33 Jim Pagliaroni
About Jim Pagliaroni
The first series of 1966 catches Pagliaroni coming off his biggest year at the plate. In 1965 he played a career-high 134 games and set a Pittsburgh record for home runs by a catcher with 17, all while calling cavernous Forbes Field home, and drove in a career-high 65 runs. July 23 brought the only two-homer game he ever had, both off Chicago Cubs left-hander Dick Ellsworth. He finished second among National League catchers in fielding percentage, and the Pirates closed with a rush to take third place. That winter manager Harry Walker publicly called him the club's leader.
James Vincent Pagliaroni was born December 8, 1937, in Dearborn, Michigan, and grew up in Long Beach, California, where he starred at Woodrow Wilson High School. The Boston Red Sox signed him in 1955 as an amateur free agent for a reported $85,000 bonus paid out over ten years, and the bonus rules of the day put him straight onto the major-league roster; he debuted at Fenway Park on August 13, 1955, at age seventeen. Army service from 1956 to 1958 and three minor-league seasons followed before he returned to Boston for good in August 1960. A right-handed hitter listed at six-foot-four and 210 pounds, Pagliaroni caught eleven big-league seasons for the Red Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, Oakland Athletics and Seattle Pilots, batting .252 with 90 home runs and 326 RBI in 849 games and fielding .991 behind the plate. He was on the receiving end of two celebrated games, Bill Monbouquette's 1962 no-hitter and Catfish Hunter's 1968 perfect game, and his teammates elected him players' union representative with both the Pirates and the Athletics. He died of cancer on April 3, 2010, in Grass Valley, California.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 314 | 2 | 49 | 165 | 65 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 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 #33 card?
It is card #33 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Pagliaroni of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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.