1966 Topps #80 Richie Allen
About Richie Allen
Card #80 sits in the first series and reports the 1965 season behind it: .302 with 20 home runs and 85 RBI, and Allen's first All-Star selection, as the National League's starting third baseman. That summer had a darker side. During batting practice on July 3, after a racially loaded crack from teammate Frank Thomas, Allen punched him and Thomas answered with a bat to the shoulder. The Phillies waived Thomas that night and forbade Allen to give his side, and much of the crowd blamed him after.
Richard Anthony Allen was one of the most feared hitters of the 1960s and early 1970s, a 15-season major leaguer (1963-1977) who played for the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White Sox and Oakland Athletics after the Phillies signed him out of Wampum, Pennsylvania in 1960 for a reported $70,000. Topps called him Richie Allen all decade, though family and friends had always called him Dick, and he asked the writers to use it. He broke in with one of the great rookie seasons on record, batting .318 in 1964 with a league-leading 125 runs, 13 triples and 352 total bases to win National League Rookie of the Year. Philadelphia fans turned on him anyway, showering him with fruit, ice and flashlight batteries until he took his position wearing his batting helmet, which is where the nickname Crash came from. He made seven All-Star teams, led a league in slugging percentage three times, and won the 1972 American League Most Valuable Player award with the White Sox after pacing the league in home runs, RBI, walks and on-base percentage. He finished with 351 home runs, a .534 slugging percentage and a 156 OPS+ across 1,749 games. Allen died in 2020 and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2025.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 657 | 2 | 23 | 148 | 142 | 115 | 81 | 145 | 1 |
| SGC | 156 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 19 | 36 | 41 | 52 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1966 Topps #80 card?
It is card #80 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Richie Allen of the Philadelphia Phillies.
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.