1967 Topps #568 John Sullivan
About John Sullivan
By 1967 Sullivan had moved to the New York Mets, where he played his only full major league season: 65 games, a .218 average, and career highs in games caught with 57. Card #568 is a high number from the seventh print series, issued as Topps closed out the year's checklist. It is not a rookie card; Sullivan's rookie card came two years earlier, in the 1965 set.
John Sullivan was a catcher from Somerville, New Jersey who signed with the Detroit Tigers in 1959 after graduating from Bernards High School. A left-handed batter who threw right-handed, he stood 6 feet tall and weighed 195 pounds. Sullivan debuted with Detroit in the closing days of the 1963 season and spent five major league seasons behind the plate, with the Tigers (1963-65), New York Mets (1967) and Philadelphia Phillies (1968), finishing with 116 games played, 59 hits and a .228 average. His only extended big-league stretches came as a reserve catcher for the 1965 Tigers and the 1967 Mets, the latter his lone full season in the majors. He also logged eight seasons at the Triple-A level, including time with the Rochester Red Wings near his wife's family in the Finger Lakes region. After his playing days, Sullivan managed in the Kansas City Royals' farm system and later coached in the majors for fifteen years, including on the Toronto Blue Jays' back-to-back World Series champion teams in 1992 and 1993.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 399 | 1 | 39 | 169 | 96 | 54 | 25 | 15 | 0 |
| SGC | 38 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 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 #568 card?
It is card #568 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing John Sullivan of the New York Mets.
Why is #568 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.