1967 Topps #433 Al Luplow
About Al Luplow
Card 433 lands in the fifth series with Luplow as a Met, and it followed the busiest season of his career. In 1966 he played 111 games, mostly as a utility outfielder and late-inning glove, led the Mets in games in right field, and hit .251 and slugged .347, both better than his team's marks in a ninth-place, 66-win year. Two games stand out: four hits at Forbes Field on August 10, with hits in his first two at-bats the next day giving him a club record six straight, and a two-homer night off Juan Marichal at Candlestick Park on September 17 that helped keep the Giants ace, then unbeaten in seventeen career decisions against New York, from win number eighteen.
Alvin David Luplow Jr., born in Saginaw, Michigan on March 13, 1939, was a Michigan State halfback who scored a touchdown on his first varsity carry before baseball won out. He left East Lansing in May 1959, with the Spartans' baseball season still running, to sign a Cleveland bonus contract reported at $35,000 or more, a departure that helped push the major leagues to bar the signing of college players during the school year. A left-handed hitter who threw right-handed and chased fly balls with no regard for walls, he debuted with the Indians on September 16, 1961 and played seven seasons through 1967 for Cleveland, the New York Mets and the Pittsburgh Pirates, batting .235 with 292 hits, 33 home runs and 125 runs batted in over 481 games. He is best remembered for June 27, 1963 at Fenway Park, when he flew over the low right-center bullpen wall to backhand a would-be game-tying home run off the bat of Dick Williams, a catch broadcaster Curt Gowdy called the greatest he had ever seen. Back home in Saginaw afterward he sold real estate, worked as an appraiser and coached youth baseball. He was in the first class of the Saginaw County Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 and died in Saginaw on December 28, 2017.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 240 | 1 | 40 | 111 | 61 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 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. PSA registers a row for every one of the 624 states; SGC lists no separate row for the #149 white-streak state.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1967 Topps #433 card?
It is card #433 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Al Luplow of the New York Mets.
How many cards are in the 1967 Topps Baseball set?
609 cards, tracked as 624 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 609 without a gap - no number was skipped and none was used twice - and 15 cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, Baseball Almanac, BaseballCardPedia, 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 2026-10-12.