1967 Topps #21 Dave Bristol
About this card
This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1967 Topps set - one for each of the twenty franchises.
About Dave Bristol
Card #21 in Topps' first 1967 print series pictures Bristol as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, his first full season after taking over the club in July of the previous year. He guided the 1967 Reds to an 87-75 record, good for fourth place in the National League, part of a three-year run of winning seasons before the club's transformation into the Big Red Machine under his successor.
James David Bristol, born June 23, 1933 in Bristol, Georgia, was a minor league infielder who became a playing manager in the Cincinnati farm system in 1957 at age 24, but he never appeared in a major league game. By 1964 he was piloting the Reds' top affiliate, the Pacific Coast League San Diego Padres, to a pennant. His minor league clubs won 652 and lost 562 over his nine seasons as a pilot. Cincinnati promoted him to the big league coaching staff in 1966, and when manager Don Heffner struggled that July, Bristol took over the Reds in-season. He led Cincinnati through three winning campaigns before his 1969 dismissal, after which Sparky Anderson inherited the roster that became the Big Red Machine. Bristol went on to manage the Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves and San Francisco Giants, and coached for the Phillies and Expos across a career that spanned more than four decades in professional baseball.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 219 | 0 | 21 | 98 | 46 | 23 | 20 | 11 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 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 #21 card?
It is card #21 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dave Bristol of the Cincinnati Reds. 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.