1967 Topps #369 Jim Hunter
Jim "Catfish" Hunter
About Jim Hunter
Number 369 sits in the fourth series and is a plain base card. It reports 1966, when Hunter went 9-11 with a 4.02 ERA and 103 strikeouts in 176.2 innings and, at 20, made the first of his eight All-Star teams. It is also the last card to carry him as a Kansas City Athletic, since Finley moved the franchise to Oakland before the 1968 season.
James Augustus "Catfish" Hunter was a right-handed pitcher who spent 1965-1974 with the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics and 1975-1979 with the New York Yankees, going 224-166 with a 3.26 ERA and 2,012 strikeouts. Owner Charlie Finley signed him out of Perquimans County High School in Hertford, North Carolina, on June 8, 1964, months after a hunting accident cost him a toe; Finley hung the nickname "Catfish" on him during a phone call at the time of that signing. Apart from a fall instructional-league stint, Hunter never pitched in the minor leagues, and he debuted for Kansas City in May 1965 at 19. He anchored Oakland's three straight World Series titles from 1972 through 1974, won 20 or more games in five consecutive seasons from 1971 through 1975, and took the 1974 American League Cy Young Award after going 25-12 with a league-best 2.49 ERA. On May 8, 1968, he threw a perfect game against the Minnesota Twins. After Finley breached his contract, an arbitrator declared him a free agent in December 1974; his five-year Yankees deal made him baseball's first big-money free agent, and New York won the World Series in 1977 and 1978. Arm trouble ended his career after 1979. He entered the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987 and died of ALS in 1999.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,167 | 6 | 68 | 341 | 279 | 196 | 123 | 148 | 6 |
| SGC | 223 | 0 | 4 | 33 | 52 | 48 | 41 | 40 | 5 |
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 #369 card?
It is card #369 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Hunter of the Kansas City Athletics.
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.