1967 Topps #61 Gordy Coleman
About Gordy Coleman
Coleman's last card of the decade, #61 in the opening series of the 1967 set, follows a season spent largely on the bench. He played 91 games in 1966 and hit .251 with 5 home runs and 37 RBI, but led all of major league baseball with a .368 average as a pinch hitter. He got into only four games for Cincinnati the next spring, went hitless in them, and played his final big league game on May 3, 1967.
Gordon Calvin Coleman, born July 5, 1934, in Rockville, Maryland, lettered in four sports at Richard Montgomery High School, took a football scholarship to Duke, and signed with Cleveland in 1953 after a single year there. Army service at Fort McPherson cost him 1957 and 1958, and he came back to win the 1959 Southern Association Triple Crown and MVP award at Mobile. He debuted with the Indians that September, then went to Cincinnati in December with Billy Martin and Cal McLish in the trade for Johnny Temple. A left-handed hitter with a foot-in-the-bucket stance, Coleman held first base for the Reds from 1961 through 1963, then shared it with Deron Johnson, Tony Perez and Lee May as injuries cut into his playing time. His .338 career pinch-hitting average, 49 hits in 145 at-bats, stands as the best by any player who pinch-hit at least 100 times. Coleman finished at .273 with 98 home runs, joined the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 1972 and stayed with the club as speakers bureau director and, from 1990, a broadcaster, until his death on March 12, 1994.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 373 | 2 | 54 | 196 | 77 | 25 | 8 | 11 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 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 #61 card?
It is card #61 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Gordy Coleman of the Cincinnati Reds.
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.