1966 Topps #461 Roy Face
About Roy Face
Card #461 is a series-6 card reporting the shortest season Face ever had. A knee injury put him on the disabled list for the first time in his career and held him to 16 games and 20.1 innings in 1965. What he did pitch was sharp - 5-2 with a 2.66 ERA - but he finished without a save, the only year from 1957 through 1968 in which he recorded none.
ElRoy Leon Face, printed on his cards as Roy, pitched sixteen major league seasons, nearly all with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1953, 1955-1968), before finishing with Detroit (1968) and the expansion Montreal Expos (1969). Signed by the Phillies in 1949 and drafted away by Brooklyn and then Pittsburgh, he became a full-time reliever at New Orleans in 1954 and picked up the forkball that made him one of the game's first bullpen stars. His signature year was 1959: 18-1, a .947 winning percentage that broke Johnny Allen's 1937 record of .938, and 18 wins in relief that still stand as the major league record, past Jim Konstanty's 16 from 1950. An All-Star in 1959, 1960 and 1961, he led the National League in saves in 1958, 1961 and 1962. In the 1960 World Series he saved three games as Pittsburgh beat the Yankees, a Series first. Face retired with 193 saves, behind only Hoyt Wilhelm at the time; his 802 games and 188 saves remain Pittsburgh records. He died on February 12, 2026, eight days short of his 98th birthday.
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 | 300 | 2 | 60 | 140 | 53 | 24 | 15 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 16 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 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 #461 card?
It is card #461 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Roy Face of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Why is #461 harder to find?
It is from the sixth print series, #447-522 - noticeably tougher than the first five. Nothing in #447-522 is short-printed.
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.