1967 Topps #2 Jack Hamilton
About Jack Hamilton
Card #2 sits at the front of the set and catches Hamilton at his most useful. Its back covers 1966, his one full season with the Mets: 6-13 with a 3.93 ERA over 148.2 innings, 13 starts among 57 appearances and 13 saves. That was the year he one-hit the Cardinals in St. Louis on May 4, an 8-0 win spoiled only by Ray Sadecki's third-inning bunt single, the 200th victory in Mets history and just the second one-hitter, after Al Jackson in 1962.
Jack Edwin Hamilton was a hard-throwing right-hander who worked parts of eight major league seasons, 1962-1969, for the Philadelphia Phillies, Detroit Tigers, New York Mets, California Angels, Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox, finishing 32-40 with a 4.53 ERA, 20 saves and 357 strikeouts over 611.2 innings. He walked 348, nearly as many as he struck out. Born in Burlington, Iowa, he signed with the St. Louis Cardinals at a 1957 tryout camp and spent four wild years in their farm system before Philadelphia took him in the November 1960 minor league draft. He debuted on April 13, 1962, threw a one-hitter for the Mets in 1966, and hit a grand slam on May 20, 1967 for his only home run. He is remembered for one pitch: on August 18, 1967 at Fenway Park he struck Red Sox outfielder Tony Conigliaro on the left cheekbone, fracturing it and badly damaging the retina; Conigliaro missed the rest of that season and all of 1968. He later ran restaurants in Iowa and Branson, Missouri, and died February 22, 2018, at 79.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 325 | 4 | 27 | 158 | 78 | 38 | 13 | 6 | 1 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 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 #2 card?
It is card #2 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jack Hamilton 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.