1966 Topps #584 Yankees Rookie Stars - Frank Fernandez / Fritz Peterson
On this card: Frank Fernandez, Fritz Peterson
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
Topps put Fernandez on cardboard before he had played a big-league inning: #584, 'Yankees 1966 Rookie Stars,' is a series-7 high number pairing him with left-hander Fritz Peterson, who was already 12-11 in the Yankee rotation. Fernandez spent that summer at Triple-A Toledo, hitting a career-high 23rd homer, a grand slam, on August 26 before breaking his right leg in a home-plate collision the next day. International League managers voted him their All-Star catcher and the circuit's best arm. It is his recognized rookie card. Frank Fernandez was a strong-armed Yankees catcher of the late 1960s, a backup to Jake Gibbs who walked 164 times against 145 career hits and hit 39 home runs while batting .199 over six seasons.
Peterson broke in with the Yankees at age 24, making his major league debut on April 15, 1966, and throwing a complete game to beat the Orioles in Baltimore. As New York's number-two starter that year, he went 12-11 with a 3.31 ERA, striking out 96 batters over 215 innings. This card, #584, is a high number in the set's final series and is recognized as his rookie card, shared with fellow Yankee Frank Fernandez under the Rookie Stars banner. A control artist who anchored the Yankees rotation from 1966 to 1973, Fritz Peterson won 20 games in 1970 and made that year's All-Star team before finishing his career with Cleveland and Texas.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject (Frank Fernandez) · SABR BioProject (Fritz Peterson) · Baseball Almanac (Fritz Peterson) · Baseball Almanac (Frank Fernandez) · Baseball Almanac
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 439 | 3 | 45 | 164 | 132 | 53 | 23 | 16 | 3 |
| SGC | 31 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 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 #584 card?
It is card #584 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Frank Fernandez and Fritz Peterson. 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).
Is 1966 Topps #584 a rookie card?
Yes - #584 is a rookie card for every player pictured on it: Frank Fernandez and Fritz Peterson.
Why is #584 harder to find?
It is a high number card from the seventh and last print series, #523-598 - the scarce end of the set. Forty-three of its 76 cards are short prints, so scarcity is stated for the series as a whole.
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.