1967 Topps #539 Dick Egan
Double printed within the 1967 high-number series, which is why it surfaces more often than most cards from that run.
About Dick Egan
Card #539 is a seventh-series high number, double printed within it, so it turns up more often than most cards from the same series. The front shows Egan with the Los Angeles Dodgers, the club he reached for his final season: 20 games, all in relief, a 1-1 record and a career-worst 6.25 ERA across 31 2/3 innings. The win was the only one of his career, on April 24 against St. Louis, when he worked the top of the 13th with the Dodgers down a run and they came back to win 6-5 in the bottom half. On August 29 Willie Mays homered off one of his spitballs and hollered that he had hit the ball on the dry side.
Richard Wallis Egan was born March 24, 1937, in Berkeley, California, and starred as a pitcher, basketball player and football quarterback at Pleasant Hill High School before pitching at a nearby junior college. The Detroit Tigers signed him in February 1958, and in 1962 he led the Pacific Coast League in strikeouts and was voted its Pitcher of the Year with Hawaii. A 6-foot-4 left-hander who threw and batted left-handed, he worked strictly out of the bullpen in the majors, never starting once in 74 appearances. He debuted for Detroit on April 9, 1963, pitched two seasons there, spent 1965 entirely in the minors after a trade to St. Louis and a sale to Cincinnati, reached the California Angels in 1966 and finished with the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 4, 1967. His career line was modest: 1-2, a 5.15 ERA, two saves and 68 strikeouts in 101 1/3 innings, with his lone win coming in relief on April 24, 1967. He later dealt craps and blackjack at a Lake Tahoe casino, spent 14 years with the Major League Scouting Bureau, coached and managed in the Texas Rangers system, and scouted for the Marlins and Tigers, becoming a special assistant to Detroit general manager Dave Dombrowski in 2007.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 439 | 3 | 73 | 205 | 85 | 44 | 19 | 10 | 0 |
| SGC | 39 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 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 #539 card?
It is card #539 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dick Egan of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Is 1967 Topps #539 a scarce card?
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. It is also a double print card (26 cards: #1, #30, #100, the #531 checklist and 22 high numbers). Cards printed twice on the sheet, so more plentiful than their neighbours: #1 The Champs, #30 Al Kaline, #100 Frank Robinson, the #531 seventh-series checklist, and 22 of the 76 high numbers (#534, 537, 539, 542, 547, 548, 550, 551, 554, 556, 559, 562, 564, 566, 569, 582, 588, 589, 596, 599, 601, 608), Carew #569 included. A high number that is also a double print is easier than its series suggests.
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.