1967 Topps #452 Ed Kranepool
About Ed Kranepool
Two cards carry his name in 1967. #186, 'Mets Maulers,' is one of the second-series combination cards: Kranepool and Ron Swoboda leaning on their bats in a kneeling pose at spring training, surnames only across the top where Topps normally prints full names, and a paragraph of prose on the back where the statistics usually go. #452 is his ordinary fifth-series card. The season behind both is 1966, his best for power - a career-high 16 home runs with 57 RBI and 118 hits in 146 games, most of it platooning at first base.
Ed Kranepool was born November 8, 1944, in the Bronx and starred at James Monroe High School before the expansion Mets signed him on June 27, 1962 for an $80,000 bonus. He debuted that September 22 at seventeen, the first teenager to play for the club, and was still on the roster in 1979 as the last man left from the original 1962 Mets. A left-handed first baseman who also worked the outfield, he spent all eighteen of his major league seasons in New York, the longest tenure in franchise history, and remains the Mets' all-time leader in games played with 1,853, alongside 1,418 hits, 118 home runs, 614 RBI and a .261 average. He was New York's lone All-Star representative in 1965 and homered in Game Three of the 1969 World Series, then reached the Series again with the 1973 National League champions. Late in his career 'Steady Eddie' became one of the game's most reliable pinch hitters, batting .396 off the bench from 1974 through 1978 and going 17-for-35 in 1974 for a .486 mark that still stands as the season record for pinch hitting. He later worked as a stockbroker and restaurateur, joined the New York Mets Hall of Fame in 1990, and died September 8, 2024, in Boca Raton, Florida.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 312 | 5 | 34 | 145 | 78 | 31 | 10 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 26 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 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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Related cards
More Ed Kranepool in this set: #186 Combo
Team card: #42 New York Mets
More New York Mets cards:
- #2 Jack Hamilton
- #23 Larry Elliot
- #59 Ralph Terry
- #91 Johnny Lewis
- #105 Ken Boyer
- #121 Ed Bressoud
- #144 Bill Hepler
- #165 Cleon Jones
- #186 Mets Maulers
- #198 Chuck Hiller
- #217 Rob Gardner
- #264 Ron Swoboda
- #287 Mets 1967 Rookie Stars
- #306 Bud Harrelson
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1967 Topps #452 card?
It is card #452 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ed Kranepool of the New York Mets.
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.