1967 Topps #236 National League 1966 Pitching Leaders - Sandy Koufax / Juan Marichal / Bob Gibson / Gaylord Perry
On this card: Sandy Koufax, Juan Marichal, Bob Gibson, Gaylord Perry
About this card
Cards #233-244 are the twelve League Leaders, printed mid-set: the 1966 leaders in ERA, pitching, strikeouts, batting, RBI and home runs, the American League card first and the National League card second in each pair. Sandy Koufax, who retired in November 1966, has no card of his own in the set; the National League cards #234, #236 and #238 picture him.
The story on this card
Card 236 is the NL Pitching Leaders entry from the League Leaders subset in print series 3, and it doubles as a farewell: Sandy Koufax retired after the 1966 season because of chronic pain in his pitching elbow, so he has no regular card in the set; the League Leaders cards picture him. The board is the 1966 NL wins race. Koufax topped it at 27-9 with a 1.73 ERA for the Dodgers, part of his third Pitching Triple Crown and third Cy Young Award. Juan Marichal went 25-6 for the Giants, and Bob Gibson of the Cardinals and Marichal's Giants teammate Gaylord Perry each won 21, Gibson going 21-12 and Perry 21-8.
Sandy Koufax was the Dodgers' left-hander nicknamed 'the Left Arm of God,' whose five-year run of dominance from 1962 to 1966 brought three unanimous Cy Young Awards and four no-hitters, including a perfect game, before an arthritic elbow forced his retirement at 30. Juan Marichal - the Dominican Dandy's high leg kick fronted the winningest arm of the 1960s: 191 victories in the decade, nine All-Star teams, 243 career wins, and in 1983 the first Hall of Fame plaque ever hung for a Dominican-born player. Bob Gibson pitched all seventeen of his seasons for the Cardinals, a two-time Cy Young winner and two-time World Series Most Valuable Player whose 1.12 earned run average in 1968 still measures pitching dominance. Gaylord Perry was a cunning San Francisco Giants right-hander notorious for the spitball he spent two decades denying, a five-time All-Star who won Cy Young Awards in both leagues and finished with 314 wins and 3,534 strikeouts before his 1991 Hall of Fame election.
Sources: Wikipedia (Sandy Koufax) · Wikipedia (Juan Marichal) · Wikipedia (Bob Gibson) · Wikipedia (Gaylord Perry) · SABR BioProject (Sandy Koufax) · SABR BioProject (Juan Marichal) · SABR BioProject (Bob Gibson) · SABR BioProject (Gaylord Perry) · National Baseball Hall of Fame (1) · National Baseball Hall of Fame (2) · Baseball Almanac (Juan Marichal) · Baseball Almanac (Bob Gibson) · Baseball Almanac (Gaylord Perry)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,469 | 2 | 98 | 472 | 260 | 251 | 138 | 244 | 4 |
| SGC | 364 | 0 | 3 | 35 | 54 | 66 | 90 | 115 | 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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Team cards: #503 Los Angeles Dodgers, #516 San Francisco Giants, #173 St. Louis Cardinals
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1967 Topps #236 card?
It is card #236 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Sandy Koufax, Juan Marichal, Bob Gibson and Gaylord Perry. Cards #233-244 are the twelve League Leaders, printed mid-set: the 1966 leaders in ERA, pitching, strikeouts, batting, RBI and home runs, the American League card first and the National League card second in each pair. Sandy Koufax, who retired in November 1966, has no card of his own in the set; the National League cards #234, #236 and #238 picture him.
Is this Sandy Koufax's only 1967 Topps card?
No. Koufax retired in November 1966 and has no card of his own in the 1967 set, but he is pictured on three National League Leaders cards - #234, #236 and #238 - and the back of the #503 Dodgers team card lists him as the club's 1966 strikeout leader with his 27-9 record.
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.