1967 Topps #329 Charlie Lau
About Charlie Lau
Card #329, a fourth-series issue, is the last of the eight Topps cards Lau got during the decade, and it reports a 1966 season nearly erased by right elbow surgery: 18 games, all as a pinch hitter, six hits in 12 at-bats with two doubles and a triple among them, four walks, and a .500 line off the bench. He was on hand that October when Baltimore won its first pennant and World Series, sweeping the Dodgers, though the Orioles used no pinch hitters in the four games and he never got in. He split 1967 between the Orioles and Atlanta, was released that November, and managed the Braves' Double-A Shreveport club the next summer.
Charles Richard Lau, listed on cards and in the record books as both Charley and Charlie, was a left-handed-hitting, right-handed-throwing catcher and pinch hitter who spent parts of eleven seasons in the majors between 1956 and 1967. He played for the Detroit Tigers, the Braves in both Milwaukee and Atlanta, the Baltimore Orioles across two separate stints, and the Kansas City Athletics, finishing with a .255 average, 298 hits, 63 doubles and 16 home runs in 527 games. His larger fame came afterward: fifteen seasons as a big league coach, most of them as a hitting instructor, with the Orioles, the Oakland Athletics, the Royals, the Yankees and the White Sox, work that made him the man widely considered the game's leading batting instructor, the coach George Brett credited with making him a hitter and the tutor Reggie Jackson leaned on in New York. His manual "The Art of Hitting .300," published in 1980, sold widely, and "The Winning Hitter" followed posthumously. Lau died of colorectal cancer on March 18, 1984, at age 50; that year Romulus Senior High School in Michigan, where he had played, renamed its field Charlie Lau Memorial Field.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 361 | 13 | 75 | 171 | 70 | 20 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 16 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 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 #329 card?
It is card #329 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Charlie Lau of the Baltimore Orioles.
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.
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