1966 Topps #464 Larry Bearnarth
About Larry Bearnarth
Another scoreless Grapefruit League spring and a winning season debut, two clean innings against Atlanta, promised better, but home runs wrecked what followed: 11 in 54 2/3 innings, more than double the league rate. On August 3 he recorded one out while allowing a single and two homers, one of them a grand slam by Jim Ray Hart, and that was his next-to-last National League appearance; four days later the Mets optioned him to Triple-A Jacksonville. His fourth and final season in New York ended 2-3 with a 4.45 ERA and no saves in 29 games. His 1966 Topps card is #464, from the sixth series.
Lawrence Donald Bearnarth was a right-handed sinkerball pitcher who spent five major-league seasons, four of them with the New York Mets. Born in New York City and raised in Brooklyn and then on Staten Island, he starred at St. Peter's Boys High School and at St. John's University, where he went 32-2 under coach Jack Kaiser and graduated with a degree in English literature. He turned down pro offers out of high school, then signed with the Mets in June 1962 for a $17,000 bonus as the young franchise's first bonus player. Heavy rookie-season use was followed by the arm trouble that cut his career short: he pitched for New York through 1966, spent four years back in Triple-A, and made two last appearances for the Milwaukee Brewers in 1971, finishing 13-21 with a 4.13 ERA and eight saves in 173 games. He coached from the early 1970s to the end of the 1990s, working as a Montreal Expos minor-league instructor and pitching coach, the first pitching coach in Colorado Rockies history, and finally a Detroit Tigers scout.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 229 | 3 | 34 | 129 | 41 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 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 #464 card?
It is card #464 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Larry Bearnarth of the New York Mets.
Why is #464 harder to find?
It is from the sixth print series, #447-522 - noticeably tougher than the first five. Nothing in #447-522 is short-printed.
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.