1966 Topps #29 Mike Brumley
About Mike Brumley
An injury to the newly acquired John Orsino and a poor spring by prospect Jim French left Washington thin behind the plate, so Brumley made the 1966 club. On April 19, in his second start, he lined a single to right off Baltimore's Jim Palmer, a future Hall of Famer, and it proved the last hit of his major-league career. Two passed balls the next day helped the Orioles rally, and after three more appearances he was sent to Hawaii of the Pacific Coast League, where he hit .294 with a career-high ten home runs. A September recall brought five hitless at-bats, closing his major-league ledger at nine games. His 1966 Topps #29 comes from the first series.
Tony Mike Brumley was a left-handed-hitting catcher, born in Granite, Oklahoma, on July 10, 1938 and raised in Oklahoma City, where he starred at Central High School before Brooklyn Dodgers scout Bert Wells signed him in 1957. He spent seven seasons in the Dodgers chain, earning All-Star catcher honors in the Double-A Southern League in 1961 and the Triple-A American Association in 1962, and in 1963 Topps named him the National Association's Triple-A All-Star (West) catcher. That October the Dodgers sold him to the Washington Senators for $50,000, and Washington writers immediately installed him as the club's No. 1 catcher under manager Gil Hodges, an old catcher himself. A rough spring left him on the bench to open 1964, but he seized the job in May and caught 132 games as a rookie, hitting .244 while ranking among the American League's best at throwing out runners. A miserable 1965 at the plate cut him to part-time work, and nine games in 1966 closed a three-year major-league career: 224 games, a .229 average, five home runs and 50 RBIs in 660 at-bats. Brumley pursued a Bachelor of Divinity degree at the University of Oklahoma during his playing days and was ordained a Baptist minister before 1969. He died in Grapevine, Texas, on August 8, 2016.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 189 | 1 | 22 | 72 | 55 | 18 | 13 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 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 #29 card?
It is card #29 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Mike Brumley 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.