1967 Topps #45 Roger Maris
The front already reads Cards. Blank-backed proof cards picturing Maris as a Yankee exist, but they were never issued in packs and are not a pack variation.
About Roger Maris
Card #45 is the first-series card that carried the news. Topps had already photographed Maris in Yankee pinstripes, so it used a cap-bill-forward headshot, softened the background and changed the team line on the front to Cards. The season it followed was his bleakest in New York: .233 with 13 home runs and 43 RBI in 119 games in 1966. A few blank-backed proof cards showing him as a Yankee escaped the plant before the switch; they were never issued in packs, so they count as lore rather than a pack variation, and they bring thousands when one surfaces.
Roger Maris broke in with the Cleveland Indians in April 1957, moved to the Kansas City Athletics in a June 1958 trade, and joined the Yankees in a seven-player deal on December 11, 1959. In 1960 he hit .283 with 39 home runs and led the American League in RBI with 112 and in slugging at .581, taking a Gold Glove in right field and the first of two straight Most Valuable Player awards. The next season he ran down Babe Ruth's single-season home run record, finishing 1961 with 61 homers, a league-best 141 RBI and a major-league-best 132 runs in the first American League year of a 162-game schedule. Commissioner Ford Frick wanted the mark listed apart unless it came inside 154 games; no asterisk was ever printed, and committees in 1968 and 1991 affirmed it. An All-Star every year from 1959 through 1962, he won World Series titles with the Yankees in 1961 and 1962, went to the St. Louis Cardinals for Charley Smith in December 1966, won a third in 1967, and retired after 1968 with 275 home runs. The Yankees retired his number 9 in 1984. Diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1983, he died on December 14, 1985, at 51, and is not in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 2,708 | 0 | 62 | 396 | 498 | 584 | 400 | 761 | 7 |
| SGC | 812 | 0 | 3 | 28 | 104 | 117 | 211 | 336 | 13 |
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 #45 card?
It is card #45 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Roger Maris of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Is there a 1967 Topps Roger Maris card as a Yankee?
Not a pack-issued one. #45 pictures Maris as a Cardinal and notes the trade on the front. Blank-back proofs picturing him as a Yankee exist, but they are not a variation of the card and are not part of the set.
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.