1967 Topps #199 Billy Hitchcock
About this card
This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1967 Topps set - one for each of the twenty franchises.
About Billy Hitchcock
By now Hitchcock had crossed leagues, and card #199, from the third series, shows him with Atlanta. He had joined the Braves as a scout, moved into the coaching box for their first Atlanta season, and taken the club over on August 9, 1966, when Bobby Bragan was fired at 52-59; it then won 33 of 51 to finish fifth. The encore went the other way. Atlanta sat 3.5 games off the lead on July 22, then fell to 77-85 and seventh, 24.5 back, the franchise's first losing season since its final year in Boston. General manager Paul Richards fired him on September 28 with three games left, making this his last card of the decade's Topps run.
William Clyde Hitchcock, born July 31, 1916 in Inverness, Alabama, starred in two sports at Auburn, scoring the only touchdown in the school's first bowl game and captaining its first conference champion in baseball. The Yankees signed him in 1938 and Detroit made him its shortstop for 1942, but that rookie year ended in August when the Army Air Force called him to active duty; he came home a major with a Bronze Star. Back in 1946, he spent the rest of a nine-year career as a right-handed infielder who covered all four positions for Detroit, Washington, the St. Louis Browns, Boston and Philadelphia, batting .243 with 547 hits in 703 games. He was the Athletics' regular second baseman in 1950 and their regular third baseman in 1952, and his .306 in 1951 was the only time he cleared .300 anywhere. He managed Buffalo in 1954 and coached third base for Detroit from 1955 through 1960, including one game as the Tigers' interim manager, before two turns as a big-league skipper and scouting work for the Braves and the expansion Expos. From 1971 to 1980 he was president of the Double-A Southern League, whose attendance grew more than fivefold under him. The Alabama Sports Hall of Fame took him in 1975.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 300 | 1 | 67 | 170 | 38 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 1 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 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. 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 #199 card?
It is card #199 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Billy Hitchcock of the Atlanta Braves. This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1967 Topps set - one for each of the twenty franchises.
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.