1966 Topps #164 White Sox Rookie Stars - Tommie Agee / Marv Staehle
On this card: Tommie Agee, Marv Staehle
About this card
The 46 Rookie Stars cards group a club's prospects under one number - except #553, which mixes Braves and Angels, and #591 NL Rookie Stars, which mixes Dodgers and Phillies. The class is headlined by #254 (Ferguson Jenkins, with Bill Sorrell) and #288 (Don Sutton, with Bill Singer).
The story on this card
Agee won the White Sox center field job in spring training 1966 and delivered one of the great rookie seasons in league history: a .273 average, 22 home runs, 86 RBIs and 44 stolen bases, making him the first player ever to top 20 homers and 40 steals in a rookie year. It earned him the AL Rookie of the Year award, a Gold Glove and his first All-Star selection. This 1966 Topps #164, from print series 2, is a Rookie Stars card shared with Marv Staehle. Agee's rookie card is the 1965 Topps issue. Center fielder who won 1966 AL Rookie of the Year with the White Sox, then keyed the 1969 Miracle Mets with a leadoff World Series homer and two famous catches against Baltimore.
Staehle's 1966 Topps card, #164 in the set's second print series, again uses the Rookie Stars format on a horizontal front, this time sharing the space with Tommie Agee under a White Sox banner. The card came ahead of a season in which he played just eight games for Chicago, six of them at second base, and hit .133 in 15 at-bats. Marv Staehle was a light-hitting infielder who broke in with the White Sox in 1964, resurfaced with the expansion Montreal Expos and split second base with Gary Sutherland in 1970, then finished his career with Atlanta in 1971.
Sources: Wikipedia (Tommie Agee) · Wikipedia (Marv Staehle) · SABR BioProject
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 236 | 1 | 22 | 110 | 54 | 25 | 11 | 10 | 3 |
| SGC | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 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 #164 card?
It is card #164 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Tommie Agee and Marv Staehle. The 46 Rookie Stars cards group a club's prospects under one number - except #553, which mixes Braves and Angels, and #591 NL Rookie Stars, which mixes Dodgers and Phillies. The class is headlined by #254 (Ferguson Jenkins, with Bill Sorrell) and #288 (Don Sutton, with Bill Singer).
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.