1967 Topps #401 Jim Coates
About Jim Coates
Coates played no major-league games in 1964 and resurfaced with the Angels, and #401 is his California issue, a fifth-series card. It reports a nine-game 1966: 1-1 with a 3.98 ERA and 16 strikeouts, four of the nine outings starts, the best of them a four-hit complete-game shutout of the White Sox, the fourth whitewashing of his big-league career. He pitched his last major-league game on September 30, 1967, closing a nine-season career.
James Alton "Jim" Coates was born August 4, 1932, in Farnham, Virginia, and signed with the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent in 1951. He spent seven years in the Yankees farm system, debuted September 21, 1956, and won a bullpen job in New York in 1959. The 6-foot-4 right-hander worked as a reliever and spot starter through 1962, then had stints with the Washington Senators, Cincinnati Reds and the Los Angeles/California Angels, leaving the majors after 1967 with a 43-22 record, a 4.00 ERA and 396 strikeouts over 247 games. He was a 1960 All-Star, pitching two scoreless innings in the first of that summer's two All-Star Games, and he won back-to-back World Series titles with New York in 1961 and 1962. His most-remembered outing came in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series at Forbes Field: he relieved with the Yankees ahead 7-5 in the eighth, went at a Roberto Clemente chopper instead of covering first so that Bill Virdon scored, then gave up Hal Smith's home run that put Pittsburgh in front 9-7, before Bill Mazeroski ended it in the ninth. His funereal look on the mound earned him the nickname "The Mummy." Coates was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1994 and died November 15, 2019, at age 87.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 235 | 3 | 34 | 128 | 39 | 22 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 8 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 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 #401 card?
It is card #401 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Coates of the California Angels.
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.