1967 Topps #22 Gene Brabender
About Gene Brabender
Coming off his rookie season with the World Series champion Orioles, Brabender moved into the rotation in 1967 and turned in his career-best performance that August, a four-hit shutout of Cleveland with 12 strikeouts, on his way to a 6-4 record and 3.35 ERA over 14 games. This card, from the set's first print series, shows him with the Orioles.
Gene Brabender was a big right-handed pitcher out of Black Earth, Wisconsin, who broke in with the Baltimore Orioles in 1966 and helped the club to a World Series championship as a rookie, though he did not appear in that Series. He pitched three seasons in Baltimore, highlighted by a four-hit, 12-strikeout shutout of Cleveland in August 1967, before Baltimore sent him to the expansion Seattle Pilots in a 1969 trade that also included Gordon Lund. He led that lone Seattle season with 13 wins, a mark that stood as an expansion-team record for years afterward. When the Pilots became the Milwaukee Brewers in 1970, Brabender closed out his five-year major league career there before returning home to work the family dairy farm. Brabender died in 1996 at age 55.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 422 | 6 | 110 | 190 | 72 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 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 #22 card?
It is card #22 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Gene Brabender of the Baltimore Orioles.
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.