1967 Topps #66 Manny Mota
About Manny Mota
Number 66 in the first series follows the best average of any season Mota played regularly: .332 with 5 home runs and 46 RBI in 116 games in 1966, platooning in the Pittsburgh outfield with Matty Alou. Harry Walker had talked him out of hitting the ball in the air, and in a June feature on the pair, Pirates beat writer Les Biederman wrote that Mota "is a standout every time he plays" and one of the best bunters in the game, good enough to play regularly on many big league teams.
Manny Mota (Manuel Rafael Mota Geronimo) was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on February 18, 1938, and signed with the New York Giants on February 21, 1957, for a $400 bonus. Five minor league seasons carried him from Class D Michigan City to Triple-A Tacoma, and he debuted for San Francisco on April 16, 1962. Dealt to Houston that November, he never played a game for the Colt .45's; Pittsburgh acquired him days before the 1963 season, and he spent six years as a Pirates outfielder. A June 1969 move to the Los Angeles Dodgers began the long second half of a 20-year career that brought an All-Star selection in 1973, a .304 lifetime average, and 150 career pinch hits, a record that stood until 2001. He then coached the Dodgers from 1980 through 2013, 34 straight seasons and a club record, and was elected to the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998. His father, Andres, gave him the nickname El Chory, roughly Shorty, and it is still the name people know him by at home.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 501 | 3 | 93 | 263 | 82 | 35 | 16 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 28 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 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 #66 card?
It is card #66 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Manny Mota of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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.