1967 Topps #170 Dick McAuliffe
About Dick McAuliffe
Card #170 comes out of the second series of the 1967 Topps set. The 1966 line behind it is the best he ever posted at the plate: a .274 average, 23 home runs, 56 runs batted in and 83 runs scored in only 124 games, illness and injury having cost him the rest. He ranked fourth in the American League with a .373 on-base percentage and fifth with a .509 slugging mark, and was again voted the league's starting All-Star shortstop, though he went hitless in the game.
Richard John McAuliffe was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on November 29, 1939, and grew up in the village of Unionville. Tigers scout Lew Cassell signed him out of Farmington High School after the Class of 1957 graduated, and four minor league seasons later he reached Detroit in September 1960. A left-handed hitter, he held his hands cocked high and opened his front foot toward the pitcher, stepping back toward a conventional stance only as the ball came in. He became the Tigers' regular shortstop in 1963 and held the job through 1966, moved to second base in 1967 so Ray Oyler could take over at short, and was still there when Detroit won the 1968 World Series. Over sixteen seasons - fourteen with the Tigers, two with Boston after an October 1973 trade for outfielder Ben Oglivie - he batted .247 with 197 home runs, 697 runs batted in, 888 runs scored and 882 walks. He managed Boston's Double-A Bristol club in 1975 before a late recall ended his playing days that September. He later ran baseball schools and a coin-operated laundry repair business, and died in Farmington, Connecticut, on May 13, 2016.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 272 | 1 | 26 | 115 | 76 | 35 | 14 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 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 #170 card?
It is card #170 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dick McAuliffe of the Detroit Tigers.
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.