1967 Topps #579 Bill Henry
About Bill Henry
Card #579 is a high number in the 1967 set's seventh series, one of two among Henry's eight cards from the 1961-1969 Topps run. Back with the Giants after his winter release, he gave them 28 games, 21.2 innings, two saves, a 2-0 record and a 2.08 ERA. The curiosity came on September 30, the Giants' next-to-last game, when he started the second end of a doubleheader against the Phillies - his first big league start since 1955 - and threw three innings of a combined four-hit shutout.
Bill Henry was a left-handed relief pitcher from Alice, Texas, who starred in basketball and track at Pasadena High School, which fielded no baseball team, and did not pitch in organized baseball until he turned professional in 1948. Four minor league seasons brought him to the Boston Red Sox in 1952, and he spent four years with Boston, three of them split with the high minors, working mainly as a starter. The Red Sox traded him to the Chicago Cubs in January 1957, and after the Cubs converted him to relief he became a National League workhorse, tying teammate Don Elston for the league lead with 65 games pitched in 1959. A December 1959 trade sent him to Cincinnati for six productive seasons: an All-Star selection in 1960, 64 saves as a Red, and two appearances in the 1961 World Series. He moved to San Francisco in May 1965 and pitched until he was 41, closing a 16-year career with brief stops in Pittsburgh and Houston at 527 games, a 46-50 record, 90 saves and a 3.26 ERA. Quiet enough that teammates called him Gabby, he later worked the Houston docks as a longshoreman and entered his Pasadena school district's athletics hall of fame in 2012.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 372 | 0 | 42 | 193 | 94 | 29 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 25 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 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. 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 #579 card?
It is card #579 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bill Henry of the San Francisco Giants.
Why is #579 harder to find?
It is a high number card from the seventh and last print series, #534-609 - the scarce end of the set, holding both Hall of Fame rookies (Carew #569, Seaver #581). Twenty-two of the 76 are accepted double prints, so scarcity varies card by card inside the run.
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.