1967 Topps #377 Luis Tiant
About Luis Tiant
1967 Topps #377 comes out of the fifth series, despite sitting deep in the numbering. The season behind it was the one that pointed at what was coming: back in the rotation for 29 of his 33 appearances, Tiant went 12-9 with a 2.74 ERA and nine complete games, and he struck out 219 men in 213.2 innings to lead the American League in strikeouts per nine, a rate no American League starter matched that year.
Luis Clemente Tiant Vega, born November 23, 1940 in Marianao, Cuba, was a right-handed pitcher whose 19 big-league seasons ran from 1964 to 1982, most of them with the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox. The son of Negro leagues star Luis Tiant Sr., he was pitching in Mexico and Cuba when Cleveland bought his contract in 1961 on the recommendation of former Indians All-Star Bobby Avila; with Fidel Castro's Cuba closed to him, he did not see his parents for 14 years. He debuted on July 19, 1964 with an 11-strikeout, 3-0 shutout of the defending American League champion New York Yankees, beating Whitey Ford. A fractured right shoulder blade and a release by Minnesota nearly finished him in 1971, but he rebuilt his delivery in the minors into the twisting, turn-your-back windup that made El Tiante a Fenway Park institution, winning 20 or more games four times and beating Cincinnati twice in the 1975 World Series. He finished 229-172 with a 3.30 ERA, 2,416 strikeouts, 187 complete games and 49 shutouts, the most of any pitcher never elected to Cooperstown. He is not a National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee; the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame took him in 1997 and the Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009. He died October 8, 2024.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 371 | 0 | 23 | 132 | 96 | 45 | 36 | 39 | 0 |
| SGC | 40 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 1 |
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 #377 card?
It is card #377 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Luis Tiant of the Cleveland Indians.
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.