1967 Topps #563 Joe Adcock
About this card
This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1967 Topps set - one for each of the twenty franchises.
About Joe Adcock
Adcock's last Topps card is a seventh-series high number at #563, and it is his first as a manager rather than a player. He closed out his playing days with the Angels in 1966, pacing them with 18 home runs in only 231 at-bats and launching two of the longest drives of his career: one into the Tiger Stadium upper deck off Mickey Lolich on July 4, another off a light tower at Anaheim Stadium on September 2. That October Cleveland hired him to manage, and he promised to be strict and stress fundamentals. He lasted one season, finishing eighth at 75-87 before Alvin Dark replaced him.
Joseph Wilbur Adcock was born October 30, 1927, in Coushatta, Louisiana, and led the Southeastern Conference in scoring for the LSU basketball team before a walk-on tryout there turned him into a slugging first baseman. Signed by Cincinnati in 1947, he debuted with the Reds in 1950 but was blocked at first base by Ted Kluszewski and was traded to the Braves in February 1953, weeks before the franchise moved from Boston to Milwaukee. Nicknamed "Billy Joe" after a Vanderbilt basketball player and popularized by Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully, Adcock became one of the era's most feared long-ball hitters, highlighted by a four-home-run, 18-total-base game against Brooklyn at Ebbets Field on July 31, 1954. He anchored Milwaukee's lineup alongside Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews, helped the Braves win the 1957 World Series, and made his only All-Star team in 1960. Injuries and platooning cost him at-bats, yet he finished with 336 home runs, 1,122 RBIs and a .277 average over 17 seasons with the Reds, Braves, Indians and Angels, retiring with the third-highest career fielding percentage (.994) among first basemen. A 1975 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame inductee and a 2022 Braves Hall of Fame selection, he retired to his Coushatta ranch and died there on May 3, 1999.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · Baseball Almanac
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 435 | 0 | 30 | 179 | 131 | 58 | 22 | 15 | 0 |
| SGC | 52 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 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 #563 card?
It is card #563 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Joe Adcock of the Cleveland Indians. This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1967 Topps set - one for each of the twenty franchises.
Why is #563 harder to find?
It is a high number card from the seventh and last print series, #534-609 - the scarce end of the set, holding both Hall of Fame rookies (Carew #569, Seaver #581). Twenty-two of the 76 are accepted double prints, so scarcity varies card by card inside the run.
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.