1967 Topps #44 Joe Nuxhall
About Joe Nuxhall
Card 44, a first-series number, turned out to be the last Topps card of Nuxhall's playing days. He worked 1966 as a swingman for a seventh-place Reds club that went 76-84, going 6-8 with a 4.50 ERA in 35 games and 130 innings, 16 of them starts, with 71 strikeouts. His last big-league pitch came on October 2, 1966, when he relieved Sammy Ellis with two out in the eighth and got George Kopacz to fly out. He announced his retirement the following April, in the same spring collectors were pulling this card.
Joseph Henry Nuxhall, a left-handed pitcher born in Hamilton, Ohio on July 30, 1928, holds a distinction unmatched in Major League Baseball history: at 15 years, 316 days old, he became the youngest player ever to appear in a big-league game, called up by the wartime Cincinnati Reds in 1944 straight from pitching against seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders. That single rocky relief outing against the Cardinals was his only big-league work for eight years; he came up slowly through the Reds' farm system and even went back to Hamilton High School for his diploma before sticking in Cincinnati in 1952 at age 23. Over a 16-season career spent mostly with the Reds, with stops in Kansas City and Los Angeles, Nuxhall went 135-117 with a 3.90 ERA and 1,372 strikeouts, was an All-Star in 1955 and 1956, and led the National League in shutouts in 1955. Cooperstown never called; the Reds elected him to their own Hall of Fame in 1968. He announced his retirement as a player in April 1967 and moved straight to the club's radio booth, where he spent the next four decades. He died in 2007.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 379 | 2 | 52 | 184 | 80 | 31 | 12 | 18 | 0 |
| SGC | 13 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 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 #44 card?
It is card #44 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds.
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.