1966 Topps #221 National League 1965 ERA Leaders - Sandy Koufax / Juan Marichal / Vern Law
On this card: Sandy Koufax, Juan Marichal, Vern Law
The 1965 National League earned run average leaders: Sandy Koufax, Juan Marichal and Vern Law.
About this card
Cards #215-226 are the twelve League Leaders, printed in the middle of the third series rather than at the front of the set - the one structural quirk of 1966. Each card lists the 1965 leaders in one statistical category, the National League card first and the American League card second in each pair.
The story on this card
Card 221 is Topps' 1966 salute to the National League's lowest earned run averages from the 1965 season, and it names the three men who finished on top. Sandy Koufax led at 2.04, going 26-8 for the Dodgers over 335.2 innings with 382 strikeouts on the way to his second Cy Young Award. Juan Marichal was next at 2.13, part of a 22-13 year for the Giants that included ten shutouts. Vern Law closed the board at 2.15, the lowest mark of his career, alongside a 17-9 record for the Pirates in the season the Associated Press named him National League Comeback Player of the Year. A third-series card from the League Leaders subset, it puts a Dodger, a Giant and a Pirate on one front.
Sandy Koufax was the Dodgers' left-hander nicknamed 'the Left Arm of God,' whose five-year run of dominance from 1962 to 1966 brought three unanimous Cy Young Awards and four no-hitters, including a perfect game, before an arthritic elbow forced his retirement at 30. Juan Marichal - the Dominican Dandy's high leg kick fronted the winningest arm of the 1960s: 191 victories in the decade, nine All-Star teams, 243 career wins, and in 1983 the first Hall of Fame plaque ever hung for a Dominican-born player. Vern Law was Pittsburgh's ace and the first Pirate to win a Cy Young Award, going 20-9 in 1960 and winning two World Series starts on a badly sprained ankle before a shoulder injury and a 1965 comeback shaped the rest of his career.
Sources: Wikipedia (Sandy Koufax) · Wikipedia (Juan Marichal) · Wikipedia (Vern Law) · SABR BioProject (Sandy Koufax) · SABR BioProject (Juan Marichal) · SABR BioProject (Vern Law) · National Baseball Hall of Fame · Baseball Almanac (Juan Marichal) · Baseball Almanac (Vern Law)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 764 | 0 | 13 | 120 | 171 | 150 | 110 | 193 | 7 |
| SGC | 207 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 32 | 59 | 90 | 2 |
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 #221 card?
It is card #221 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Sandy Koufax, Juan Marichal and Vern Law. Cards #215-226 are the twelve League Leaders, printed in the middle of the third series rather than at the front of the set - the one structural quirk of 1966. Each card lists the 1965 leaders in one statistical category, the National League card first and the American League card second in each pair.
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.