1967 Topps #245 Curt Flood
About Curt Flood
Flood turns up twice in the 1967 set. #63 is a first-series combination card, "Cards' Clubbers," pairing him with fellow Cardinals outfielder Lou Brock; #245 is his own third-series card. Both look back on 1966, when he hit .267 with 167 hits and 78 RBI over 160 games and made his second All-Star team. The backs cannot show the year's real story: 391 putouts and five assists in 159 outfield games without a single error, making him only the second National League outfielder ever to play 150 or more games cleanly.
Curtis Charles Flood grew up in Oakland, California, and signed with the Cincinnati Redlegs in 1956. Cincinnati traded him to the St. Louis Cardinals in December 1957, and he held center field there from 1958 through 1969. Flood won seven straight Gold Gloves (1963-1969), made three All-Star teams (1964, 1966, 1968), batted over .300 six times, and ran off 226 consecutive errorless games from September 1965 to June 1967, a National League record for an outfielder. He won World Series rings with St. Louis in 1964 and 1967 and finished fourth in the 1968 NL MVP vote. After the 1969 season the Cardinals traded him to the Philadelphia Phillies; Flood refused to report, told commissioner Bowie Kuhn he was not a piece of property to be bought and sold, and sued Major League Baseball over the reserve clause. He sat out 1970, played 13 games for the Washington Senators in 1971, and lost 5-3 in the Supreme Court in 1972. Free agency arrived anyway by 1976, and Congress named the 1998 Curt Flood Act for him; the Cardinals put him in their team Hall of Fame in 2015. He died in January 1997, two days after his 59th birthday and two years after a throat cancer diagnosis. He has never been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 445 | 4 | 66 | 201 | 76 | 38 | 21 | 38 | 1 |
| SGC | 53 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 15 | 7 | 2 |
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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Related cards
More Curt Flood in this set: #63 Combo
Team card: #173 St. Louis Cardinals
More St. Louis Cardinals cards:
- #20 Orlando Cepeda
- #41 Joe Hoerner
- #45 Roger Maris
- #63 Cards Clubbers
- #78 Pat Corrales
- #92 Ray Washburn
- #108 Alex Johnson
- #128 Ed Spiezio
- #146 Steve Carlton
- #195 Al Jackson
- #196 Johnny Romano
- #210 Bob Gibson
- #226 Julian Javier
- #236 National League 1966 Pitching Leaders
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1967 Topps #245 card?
It is card #245 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Curt Flood of the St. Louis Cardinals.
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.