1967 Topps #427 Ruben Gomez
Two states are known for this card: one carries the complete statistics lines right down to the career totals, the other has that stats line almost entirely gone.
About Ruben Gomez
Gene Mauch had watched Gomez pitch winter ball in Puerto Rico and invited the 39-year-old to camp in 1967 as a situational reliever. He arrived off a 10-4, 1.24 season for Veracruz in the Mexican League and a Santurce championship run under Earl Weaver, made the club, and worked seven games and 11 1/3 innings without a decision, his last big league outing coming on May 2, 1967; when the Phillies picked up Turk Farrell they sent him back to Veracruz. Card 427, a fifth-series card, turns up in two states: one with the statistics lines complete down to the career totals, the other with that stats line almost entirely gone.
Ruben Gomez Colon (1927-2004) was a Puerto Rican right-hander from Arroyo who debuted with the New York Giants in 1953 and went 13-11 as a rookie. In 1954 he went 17-9 with a 2.88 ERA, then started and won Game 3 of the World Series at Cleveland, the first Puerto Rican pitcher to start and win a Series game, as the Giants swept the 111-win Indians. He was 15-13 for the 1957 Giants, and on April 15, 1958 he won the first Major League game played on the West Coast, an 8-0 shutout of the Dodgers at Seals Stadium that beat future Hall of Famer Don Drysdale. Traded to the Phillies for Jack Sanford after that season, he faded quickly, spent 1961 in the minors and went 2-3 in a 1962 return split between Cleveland and Minnesota. He finished 76-86 with a 4.09 ERA over ten big league seasons. At home he pitched 28 winter seasons between 1947 and 1977, mostly for the Santurce Cangrejeros, setting league marks for wins (174), innings and games pitched (417). Nicknamed El Divino Loco, he entered the Puerto Rico Sports Hall of Fame in 1985, the Puerto Rican Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999.
Sources: SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · Baseball Almanac
Print variations
Two states of #427 are tracked individually: 427a - Complete Stat Lines and 427b - Stats Line Nearly Gone. The difference is on the back of the card (print flaw).
States catalogued by the PSA master set registry; each is tracked here individually.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 427a - Complete Stat Lines | |||||||||
| PSA | 270 | 1 | 25 | 130 | 72 | 22 | 8 | 12 | 0 |
| SGC | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 427b - Stats Line Nearly Gone | |||||||||
| PSA | 140 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 31 | 44 | 14 | 32 | 0 |
| SGC | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| Not designated by SGC | |||||||||
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 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. Where a grader registers a variation separately its population is listed under that variation; SGC slabs whose label names no variation are listed as not designated, while PSA slabs whose label names no variation are counted under 427a - Complete Stat Lines. 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 #427 card?
It is card #427 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ruben Gomez of the Philadelphia Phillies.
Does 1967 Topps #427 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked individually: 427a - Complete Stat Lines (Complete stat lines with the totals present - the corrected state listed by PSA and Cardboard Connection; TCDB carries no row for it) and 427b - Stats Line Nearly Gone (The stat line is nearly gone (totals missing). TCDB splits the flawed printing into two rows and Cardboard Connection lists three states in all; the checklist follows PSA's two-state pair). Owning any one of them fills the #427 slot; the master set counts each state.
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.