1966 Topps #192 Vic Power
About Vic Power
Number 192, second series of the 1966 Topps set, is the last Topps card of Vic Power's playing days and the only one to read California Angels rather than Los Angeles. He spent 1965 as a bench man, 124 games but only 197 at-bats, hitting .259 before playing his final major league game on October 3. Power went home to scout for the Angels in Puerto Rico, ran youth clinics and kept managing Caguas in the island's winter league. He was never elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, but Puerto Rico put him in its Sports Hall of Fame in 1981, and Guaynabo named a ballpark Parque Victor Pellot for him.
Victor Felipe Pellot Pove, who played as Vic Power, was a Puerto Rican first baseman born November 1, 1927, in Arecibo. He led the American Association in hitting at .349 in 1953 for the Yankees' Kansas City farm club, yet New York never promoted him; general manager George Weiss said he was not the Yankee type, and the club chose Elston Howard instead to integrate its roster. Traded to the Philadelphia Athletics in December 1953, Power became the first Puerto Rican to play for that franchise and spent his first spring training barred from his teammates' hotels and restaurants. Over twelve seasons with the Athletics, Indians, Twins, Angels and Phillies he won seven straight Gold Gloves, from the award's 1958 debut through 1964, and was an American League All-Star in four seasons. Power finished at .284 with 1,716 hits, 126 home runs, 658 runs batted in and only 247 strikeouts in 6,046 at-bats.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 213 | 3 | 40 | 101 | 42 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 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 #192 card?
It is card #192 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Vic Power of the California Angels.
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.