1966 Topps #401 Ken McMullen
About Ken McMullen
Card #401, a fifth-series card, follows McMullen's first full season in Washington: 150 games, a .263 average, 18 home runs and 54 RBIs, batting second for Gil Hodges on a club that went 70-92 and finished eighth. His glove drew the notice - he tied an American League record by starting four double plays against Baltimore on August 13 - even though his 22 errors also led the league that year.
Kenneth Lee McMullen signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers out of Oxnard High School in California and reached the majors as a twenty-year-old September call-up in 1962, after two minor league seasons batting .285 with 42 home runs and 177 RBIs. He played parts of three seasons with Los Angeles - his first big league home run was a grand slam off St. Louis right-hander Ernie Broglio on the Fourth of July, 1963 - before a poor 1964 sent him back to the minors and then, that December, to the Washington Senators in a seven-player deal that also carried Frank Howard, Phil Ortega, Pete Richert and Dick Nen east for Claude Osteen and John Kennedy. McMullen took over Washington's third base job under manager Gil Hodges and held it through the rest of the decade, tying one American League fielding record at the position and setting another, and posting career highs of a .272 average and 87 runs batted in during 1969. Washington traded him to the California Angels in 1970; he returned to the Dodgers from 1973 through 1975, then finished with Oakland in 1976 and Milwaukee in 1977, ending on a pinch-hit home run in his last at-bat. He retired with 1,273 hits, 156 home runs and 606 RBIs across sixteen seasons, nearly all at third base.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 344 | 5 | 60 | 186 | 66 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 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 #401 card?
It is card #401 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ken McMullen 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.