1966 Topps #69 Ken Hamlin
About Ken Hamlin
Card 69 in the 1966 Topps set is a first-series number and the last of his four cards in the decade's Topps run. It follows the best year he had in the majors: 1965, when he hit .273 with four home runs and 22 RBI in 117 games, a good share of that time at second base. By 1966 he was a 31-year-old utility infielder behind Ed Brinkman, who played 158 games at shortstop, though Gil Hodges still wrote him into the Opening Day lineup. The bat went quiet, 66 games and 34 hits at a .215 clip with 16 RBI, and Washington's eighth-place, 71-88 season closed with Hamlin's last major league game on September 26.
Kenneth Lee Hamlin was born May 18, 1935, in Detroit and starred at Western Michigan, where in 1957 he hit a then-school-record seven home runs, slugged .714 and was named a second-team All-American, a year after taking second-team All-MAC honors. The Pittsburgh Pirates signed him as an amateur free agent on June 3, 1957, and he was in the majors two weeks later, debuting June 17. Five games across two short Pittsburgh stays were all he got there; a December 9, 1959, multi-player trade headlined by pitcher Dick Hall and catcher-third baseman Hal Smith sent him to the Kansas City Athletics, where he became the everyday shortstop in 1960. From there came the expansion Los Angeles Angels in 1961 and Washington, where he played in 1962 and again in 1965 and 1966. A right-handed hitter and thrower, slick in the field with a strong arm and light with the bat, he closed out seven seasons at .241 with 323 hits, 11 home runs and a .963 fielding percentage, his last game coming September 26, 1966. He later ran the Tall Timbers youth camp near Battle Creek, Michigan, and coached high school baseball there; Western Michigan put him in its athletic hall of fame in 2010.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 204 | 0 | 27 | 98 | 53 | 18 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 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 #69 card?
It is card #69 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ken Hamlin of the Washington Senators.
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.