1966 Topps #315 Norm Cash
About Norm Cash
#218, the American League home run leaders card for 1965, is a third-series card ranking Cash behind Boston's Tony Conigliaro, whose 32 led the league, and ahead of Detroit teammate Willie Horton. #315, from the fourth series, is his solo card. Both cards were also struck by Topps for its Venezuelan issue, a scarcer parallel. The 1965 line behind them: .266, 30 home runs, 82 RBI and a second half strong enough to win Comeback Player of the Year.
Norman Dalton Cash reached the majors with the Chicago White Sox in 1958 and sat on their 1959 American League pennant winners. Chicago packaged him to Cleveland that December in the Minnie Minoso deal, and the following April, before Cash had played an inning for the Indians, Cleveland sent him on to Detroit for Steve Demeter, who lasted four more major league games. Cash held down first base for the Tigers for the next fifteen seasons. Ernie Harwell hung the nickname on him, borrowed from a Baltimore man of the same name, after a rare flare of temper. He was a five-time All-Star, the 1961 American League batting champion and a World Series winner in 1968, and he later admitted cheerfully to filling hollowed-out bats with cork, sawdust and glue. He was the only American Leaguer to hit 20 or more home runs in every season from 1961 through 1969, led the league in fielding twice and in assists three times, and finished with 377 home runs, fourth most by a left-handed hitter in league history behind Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Lou Gehrig. Detroit released him in August 1974, and he drowned in 1986 after falling from a dock at Beaver Island, Michigan. Cash is in the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, not the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (2)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 303 | 0 | 14 | 119 | 81 | 40 | 23 | 25 | 1 |
| SGC | 26 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 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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Related cards
More Norm Cash in this set: #218 League Leaders
Team card: #583 Detroit Tigers
More Detroit Tigers cards:
- #20 Willie Horton
- #38 Ron Nischwitz
- #58 Dave Wickersham
- #81 Ray Oyler
- #98 Don Demeter
- #113 Hank Aguirre
- #145 Bill Freehan
- #161 Jerry Lumpe
- #187 Chuck Dressen
- #198 Mickey Stanley
- #209 Tigers 1966 Rookie Stars
- #218 American League 1965 Home Run Leaders
- #220 American League 1965 RBI Leaders
- #226 American League 1965 Strikeout Leaders
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1966 Topps #315 card?
It is card #315 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Norm Cash of the Detroit Tigers.
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.