1967 Topps #393 Jim Bouton
About Jim Bouton
Bouton's series-5 card #393 covers a 1966 in which the arm never came back but the run prevention briefly did. He made 24 appearances, 19 of them starts, and posted a 2.69 ERA across 120 innings, the best mark on the Yankees staff among their hundred-inning pitchers. The record beside it, 3-8, belonged to the offense behind him: New York finished dead last in the ten-team American League at 70-89, twenty-six and a half games behind Baltimore, and at 27 Bouton was two years removed from World Series stardom with no safe place on the roster.
Jim Bouton signed with the New York Yankees for a $30,000 bonus and reached the majors in April 1962, working as a swingman for a club that won the World Series that fall; his tenacity on the mound earned him the nickname Bulldog. He broke through in 1963 at 21-7 with a 2.53 ERA and made his only All-Star team, then went 18-13 in 1964 and won both of his World Series starts as the Yankees fell to St. Louis in seven games. His career World Series mark is 2-1 with a 1.48 ERA across three starts. A sore bicep in 1965 cost him his fastball, and after several losing seasons he rebuilt himself around a knuckleball, carrying him to the expansion Seattle Pilots and then the Houston Astros in 1969. He turned that season into Ball Four (1970), a diary whose candor about clubhouse drinking, amphetamines and womanizing drew a public rebuke from Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who called it detrimental to baseball; it later became the only sports book on the New York Public Library's Books of the Century list. He pitched once more in the majors, for Atlanta in 1978 after an eight-year absence, and later worked as a broadcaster and actor. He died on July 10, 2019, at 80, of cerebral amyloid angiopathy.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 327 | 2 | 36 | 133 | 83 | 27 | 25 | 21 | 0 |
| SGC | 22 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1967 Topps #393 card?
It is card #393 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Bouton of the New York Yankees.
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.