1967 Topps #572 Don Demeter
About Don Demeter
Demeter's last Topps card is #572, a high number in the 1967 set's seventh and final series. It shows him with Boston, where he had landed in the June 14, 1966 trade that sent him and Julio Navarro to the Red Sox for Earl Wilson and Joe Christopher, and it reports a 1966 season split between Detroit and Boston: a combined .268 average, 14 home runs and 41 RBI. He spent most of 1967 in Cleveland, dealt there on June 4 with Tony Horton for Gary Bell.
Don Demeter was a 6-foot-4 outfielder who signed with Brooklyn for an $800 bonus out of Capitol Hill High School and played 11 major league seasons (1956-1967) for the Dodgers, Phillies, Tigers, Red Sox and Indians. He won a World Series ring with the 1959 Dodgers, the year he homered three times in one game and became "Dangerous Don" in the papers. Traded to Philadelphia in May 1961, he had his finest season in 1962 - a .307 average, 29 home runs and 107 RBI - and that September began a 266-game errorless streak, the major league record for outfielders until Darren Lewis passed it in 1994. Dealt to Detroit for Jim Bunning after 1963, he later played for Boston and finished with Cleveland in 1967; a late-season physical voided a sale back to Detroit by flagging a heart problem later traced to diet, and he retired before the 1968 season. He batted .265 with 163 home runs and 563 RBI in 1,109 games, then pastored an Oklahoma City Baptist church he helped found. He entered the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame in 2010 and died in 2021 at 86.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 458 | 3 | 18 | 150 | 137 | 86 | 35 | 28 | 1 |
| SGC | 38 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 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 #572 card?
It is card #572 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Don Demeter of the Boston Red Sox.
Why is #572 harder to find?
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.
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.