1966 Topps #109 Ralph Terry
About Ralph Terry
#109 is a first-series card that still has Terry in Cleveland colors, but a spring salary dispute with Indians president Gabe Paul ended that relationship: on April 6, 1966, Cleveland traded him back to Kansas City for left-hander John O'Donoghue and cash. The second Athletics stint was short and unhappy - 1-5 with a 3.80 ERA in 15 appearances - and in early August the A's sold his contract to the Mets, where he went 0-1 with a 4.74 ERA in 11 games, working mostly out of the bullpen. In the Mets' instructional league that fall he taught a young Tug McGraw the screwball Spud Chandler had shown him back in 1958.
Ralph Terry, a right-handed pitcher from Big Cabin, Oklahoma, spent twelve big-league seasons (1956-1967) with the Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Cleveland Indians and Mets, finishing 107-99 with a 3.62 ERA, 75 complete games, 20 shutouts and exactly 1,000 strikeouts. The Yankees signed him in November 1953, months after he graduated as salutatorian at Chelsea High School in Oklahoma; a detour to Kansas City took him away in 1957, and he was back in New York by 1959 to pitch through five straight pennants from 1960 to 1964. His signature moment came in Game Seven of the 1962 World Series, when he threw a complete-game 1-0 shutout at Candlestick Park against the Giants, the contest ending on Bobby Richardson's catch of Willie McCovey's line drive; he was named World Series MVP after also winning Game Five. It was redemption of a sort - two years earlier he had surrendered Bill Mazeroski's Game Seven walk-off home run that gave Pittsburgh the 1960 title. He was never elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, though he belongs to both the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame and the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. After baseball he turned professional golfer, won the 1980 Midwest PGA Championship and later played the Senior PGA Tour. He died in Larned, Kansas, in March 2022 at 86.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 158 | 1 | 18 | 75 | 37 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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 #109 card?
It is card #109 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ralph Terry of the Cleveland Indians.
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.