1966 Topps #569 Orlando McFarlane
The 1966 seventh series is the set's scarce high-number run; checklists have never agreed on exactly which cards inside it were printed short.
About Orlando McFarlane
Detroit took McFarlane from Pittsburgh in the Rule 5 major league draft on November 29, 1965, and 1966 became far and away his busiest big-league season. He stayed with the Tigers from mid-April through the final days of the schedule rather than shuttling to the minors, and in 49 games and 138 at-bats he hit .254 with seven doubles, 13 RBI and all five of the home runs he would hit in the majors. His card belongs to the seventh series, the high-number run that closes the 1966 set.
Orlando de Jesus McFarlane Quesada was a Cuban catcher, born in Victoria de las Tunas and signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1958. He spent two seasons in the Pirates farm system, then caught for Almendares in the Cuban League in the 1959-60 and 1960-61 winters. When the Cuban government replaced the professional league with amateur baseball, he moved to the United States for good. In 1961 he hit .301 with 21 home runs and 27 stolen bases for the Class A Asheville Tourists and was named the best prospect in the South Atlantic League. He debuted with Pittsburgh on April 23, 1962 and played parts of five big-league seasons through 1968 for the Pirates, Detroit Tigers and California Angels, batting .240 with five home runs in 124 games while spending much of that span in the minors. Across ten minor league seasons he hit .285 with 129 home runs. He twice led the Dominican winter league in home runs for the Aguilas Cibaenas, also played in Venezuela, and settled in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where he caught for the Leones, was married at their ballpark, and died in 2007.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 353 | 5 | 34 | 156 | 79 | 46 | 22 | 11 | 0 |
| SGC | 30 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 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 #569 card?
It is card #569 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Orlando McFarlane of the Detroit Tigers.
Why is #569 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.