1967 Topps #56 Jose Tartabull
About Jose Tartabull
Tartabull played a career-high 115 games for the 1967 pennant winners, 54 in right field, with 35 pinch-hit and 17 pinch-run appearances, and he batted .223. On August 27 at Chicago, with Boston up 4-3 in the ninth, he caught Duane Josephson's soft liner and threw home high; Elston Howard reached it and tagged Ken Berry for the final out. He started three World Series games and singled twice off Bob Gibson in Game Four. Card #56 is a first-series card.
Jose Milages Tartabull Guzman, born November 27, 1938, in Cienfuegos, Cuba, was a left-handed-hitting, left-handed-throwing outfielder built around speed. In Cienfuegos he made gloves from scraps of leather, idolized Willie Mays and followed the Yankees. American scouts brought him out of Cuba to Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1957, and Giants scout Alex Pompez signed him in 1958. He led the Texas League in runs and stolen bases in 1961, then was dealt to Kansas City for 1962. Over nine seasons (1962-1970) with the Kansas City/Oakland Athletics and Boston Red Sox he hit .261 with two home runs in 1,857 at-bats, slapping line drives and high hoppers and stealing 81 bases. He later coached and managed in the minors; his son Danny Tartabull became an All-Star.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 240 | 0 | 29 | 119 | 39 | 20 | 19 | 14 | 0 |
| SGC | 15 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 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 #56 card?
It is card #56 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jose Tartabull of the Boston Red Sox.
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.