1967 Topps #525 Ron Hunt
About Ron Hunt
Card #525 is a series-6 card and Hunt's first Topps card as a Dodger, though the back still reports a Met: .288 in 132 games with 63 runs in 1966, the year New York finally climbed out of the cellar. He made his second All-Star team that July in his hometown, and in 105-degree heat at Busch Memorial Stadium he sacrificed Tim McCarver to second in the bottom of the tenth to set up Maury Wills's winning single. His relationship with manager Wes Westrum had gone cold, and on November 29 the Mets sent him and Jim Hickman to Los Angeles for Tommy Davis and Derrell Griffith. He learned of it from a sportswriter.
Ron Hunt signed with the Milwaukee Braves as an amateur free agent in 1959 and was sold to the New York Mets on October 11, 1962. A right-handed-hitting second baseman born in St. Louis, he won the Mets' second-base job as a rookie and finished runner-up to Pete Rose for the 1963 National League Rookie of the Year award. He was an All-Star in 1964 and 1966 and, in 1964, the first Met ever elected to start an All-Star Game. Traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers after the 1966 season and to the San Francisco Giants in February 1968, he made his living crowding the plate and refusing to give ground on inside pitches, leading the National League in hit by pitches for seven straight seasons from 1968 through 1974 and setting the modern single-season record with 50 for Montreal in 1971. Over twelve seasons he batted .273 with 1,429 hits, and his 243 career hit by pitches stood as a post-dead-ball-era record when he retired. "Some folks give their bodies to science," he said. "I gave mine to baseball." He belongs to the Montreal Expos Hall of Fame, founded the Ron Hunt Eagles Baseball Association for college-bound players in 1987, and died on July 15, 2026, at age 85.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 375 | 6 | 62 | 201 | 71 | 19 | 7 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 24 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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 #525 card?
It is card #525 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ron Hunt of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Why is #525 harder to find?
It is from the sixth print series, #458-533 - noticeably tougher than the first five.
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.