1967 Topps #508 Dick Hall
About Dick Hall
Baltimore shipped Hall to Philadelphia on December 15, 1966, for a player to be named later, and John Morris finally completed the deal a full year afterward. Hall gave the Phillies an outstanding first year: ten wins and a 2.20 ERA over 48 games and 86 innings. He even made one start, on June 15, standing in for an ailing Jim Bunning and going the distance in a 4-1 win over Pittsburgh at Connie Mack Stadium, his first start in four years. Card #508 belongs to the sixth print series, noticeably tougher than the first five.
Richard Wallace Hall was born September 27, 1930, in St. Louis, grew up mostly in New Jersey and around Baltimore, and left Swarthmore College with an economics degree and eleven letters in five sports. Branch Rickey signed him as a hitter, and Hall broke in as a Pittsburgh outfielder in 1952; handed a regular outfield job in 1954, he batted .239, and in 1955 he began the move to the mound, pitching only from 1957 on. He hurt his arm on a knuckleball Rickey had suggested, and the sore arm plus a bout of hepatitis cost him most of 1957 and all of 1958, but he returned to win the 1959 Pacific Coast League MVP award. Traded to Kansas City that December and to Baltimore in April 1961, the 6-foot-6 right-hander turned into one of the game's great control artists, nicknamed Turkey for his odd pitching motion. He was an Oriole through 1966, a Phillie in 1967 and 1968, and an Oriole again from 1969 through 1971, a World Series winner in 1966, when a bad elbow kept him out of the games, and in 1970, when he saved Game Two. A working accountant and CPA, Hall joined the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame in 1989 and died in 2023 at 92.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (2)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 237 | 3 | 27 | 130 | 54 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 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 #508 card?
It is card #508 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dick Hall of the Philadelphia Phillies.
Why is #508 harder to find?
It is from the sixth print series, #458-533 - noticeably tougher than the first five.
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.