1966 Topps #7 Tracy Stallard
About Tracy Stallard
Card 7, from the first series, has Stallard still a Cardinal on the strength of his 1965 work, but the year the card came out was his last. He began it in the bullpen and said so publicly in May, unhappy with the role while carrying a 6.10 ERA in relief. St. Louis handed the rotation back on June 4, and seven starts produced a 5.71 ERA and barely five innings an outing. He finished 1-5 with a 5.68 ERA in 20 games for a sixth-place club, split the year with Tulsa, and threw his last major league pitches on July 24 against the Cubs, where the first batter he faced, Ron Santo, homered.
Evan Tracy Stallard was a 6-foot-5 right-handed pitcher born August 31, 1937, in Coeburn, Virginia, where he went unbeaten across four years of high school ball before the Boston Red Sox signed him in 1956. Five minor league seasons followed, and he finally stuck with Boston in 1961. Over parts of seven major league seasons with the Red Sox, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals he went 30-57 with a 4.17 ERA and 477 strikeouts in 764 2/3 innings, pitching his last game in July 1966. One pitch outlived all of it: on October 1, 1961, Roger Maris drove him over the wall for the 61st home run that passed Babe Ruth. Stallard made his peace with it, saying he was glad Maris did it off him, because otherwise he would never have been thought of again. He later ran a coal business back in Virginia, saw Coeburn High School name its new field for him in 1997, and entered the Virginia High School League Hall of Fame in 2005; Cooperstown never called. He died December 6, 2017, in Kingsport, Tennessee.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 212 | 3 | 25 | 107 | 37 | 20 | 13 | 7 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 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 #7 card?
It is card #7 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Tracy Stallard of the St. Louis Cardinals.
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.