1966 Topps #329 Pete Charton
About Pete Charton
By 1966 Charton's playing days were already behind him; his lone major league season had come and gone in 1964, and arm trouble in Triple-A had ended his pro career the following year. This card, a series 4 issue from the regular set, still lists him with the Boston Red Sox.
Pete Charton, born Frank Lane Charton in Jackson, Tennessee, was a right-handed pitcher who batted left-handed and stood 6-foot-2. A star at Baylor University, he signed with the Boston Red Sox in 1962 after an All-Southwest Conference season. A first-year bonus rule forced Boston to keep him on the major league roster for all of 1964 rather than let him develop in the minors, so his entire big league career came in that single season: 25 games, five starts, a 0-2 record and a 5.26 ERA over 65 innings. Veteran Bill Monbouquette mentored him on pitching to opposing hitters. After his shoulder gave out in Triple-A ball, Charton left baseball, finished college, and earned a PhD in geology from Michigan State. He spent 35 years teaching at Roane State Community College in Tennessee and later wrote a Christian devotional for incoming college students.
Sources: SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 200 | 1 | 29 | 98 | 47 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 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 #329 card?
It is card #329 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Pete Charton of the Boston Red Sox.
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.