1967 Topps #123 Pirates Rookie Stars - Jim Price / Luke Walker
On this card: Jim Price, Luke Walker
About this card
This is one of the 43 Rookie Stars cards in the set, each pairing two prospects. Thirty-nine are titled by club; #569, #576, #587 and #592 carry a league title and cover two clubs each.
The story on this card
This Rookie Stars card, shared with fellow Pirates farmhand Luke Walker, is his rookie card, printed while he was still with the Pittsburgh organization that had signed him in 1960. Days before the Tigers acquired him that April, he was a Pirates prospect coming off Carolina League Player of the Year honors at Kinston; he went on to debut for Detroit on April 11 and hit .261 in 44 games as a rookie backup catcher. Jim Price - backup catcher who spent his entire five-season career, 1967 to 1971, behind Detroit's All-Star Bill Freehan, winning a 1968 World Series ring before becoming a fixture of Tigers radio broadcasts for nearly three decades.
Walker's 1967 Topps card (#123) is a Rookie Stars issue from the set's second print series, pairing him with Detroit Tigers catcher Jim Price on what is Price's rookie card; Walker's first Topps card was 1966 #498. It was issued the year Walker did not appear in a major league game, following his 1966 season with Pittsburgh, when he made 10 appearances, one as a starter, going 0-1 with a 4.50 ERA over 10 innings and seven strikeouts. Left-handed Pirates and Tigers pitcher whose 15-6, 3.04 ERA 1970 season helped Pittsburgh reach the postseason, and who started Game Four of the 1971 World Series championship.
Sources: Wikipedia (Jim Price (catcher)) · Wikipedia (Luke Walker) · SABR BioProject
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 375 | 1 | 48 | 180 | 93 | 28 | 12 | 11 | 2 |
| SGC | 23 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 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 #123 card?
It is card #123 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Price and Luke Walker. This is one of the 43 Rookie Stars cards in the set, each pairing two prospects. Thirty-nine are titled by club; #569, #576, #587 and #592 carry a league title and cover two clubs each.
Is 1967 Topps #123 a rookie card?
Yes - #123 is the rookie card of Jim Price. Luke Walker had already appeared on an earlier Topps card, so it is not his rookie card.
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.