1966 Topps #591 NL Rookie Stars - Bart Shirley / Grant Jackson
On this card: Bart Shirley, Grant Jackson
About this card
The 46 Rookie Stars cards group a club's prospects under one number - except #553, which mixes Braves and Angels, and #591 NL Rookie Stars, which mixes Dodgers and Phillies. The class is headlined by #254 (Ferguson Jenkins, with Bill Sorrell) and #288 (Don Sutton, with Bill Singer).
The story on this card
1966 Topps #591 is a high number in the Rookie Stars subset, issued in the set's seventh print series. The card pairs Shirley, shown with the Dodgers, with Grant Jackson, shown with the Phillies, one of the set's cross-team Rookie Stars pairings. In 1966 Shirley appeared in 12 games for Los Angeles, going 1-for-5 with two runs scored, primarily at shortstop. A right-handed reserve infielder who played four seasons for the Dodgers and Mets in the 1960s, then two seasons in Japan with the Chunichi Dragons before managing in the Dodgers' Class-A farm system.
Jackson made two brief relief outings for the Phillies in April 1966 before Philadelphia acquired a pair of veteran starters from the Chicago Cubs and returned him to the minors. His card is a high number in print series 7, part of a cross-team Rookie Stars subset pairing him with Los Angeles Dodgers prospect Bart Shirley rather than a Phillies teammate, and it is recognized as Jackson's rookie card. A left-handed reliever who logged eighteen big-league seasons across six teams, made the 1969 All-Star team as a Phillies starter, and won Game Seven of the 1979 World Series for the champion Pirates.
Sources: Wikipedia (Bart Shirley) · Wikipedia (Grant Jackson) · SABR BioProject
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 905 | 2 | 27 | 133 | 172 | 180 | 146 | 241 | 4 |
| SGC | 189 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 23 | 36 | 42 | 78 | 5 |
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 #591 card?
It is card #591 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bart Shirley and Grant Jackson. The 46 Rookie Stars cards group a club's prospects under one number - except #553, which mixes Braves and Angels, and #591 NL Rookie Stars, which mixes Dodgers and Phillies. The class is headlined by #254 (Ferguson Jenkins, with Bill Sorrell) and #288 (Don Sutton, with Bill Singer).
Is 1966 Topps #591 a rookie card?
Yes - #591 is a rookie card for every player pictured on it: Bart Shirley and Grant Jackson.
Why is #591 harder to find?
It is a high number card from the seventh and last print series, #523-598 - the scarce end of the set. Forty-three of its 76 cards are short prints, so scarcity is stated for the series as a whole.
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.