1967 Topps #147 Tom Egan
About Tom Egan
Card #147 puts Egan in the 1967 set's second series, a plain base issue for a catcher California had nearly stopped using. He would appear in exactly one big league game that year, drawing a single at-bat, and he had still never hit a major league home run. Real work was three seasons off, when the Angels finally handed him 79 games behind the plate in 1970.
Thomas Patrick Egan was a 6-foot-4 catcher out of El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera, California, who signed with the Angels for a $100,000 bonus in 1964. He was 18 when he debuted on May 27, 1965, striking out against Ron Kline to end a loss in Washington. Egan caught for the Los Angeles and California Angels (1965-1970, 1974-1975) and the Chicago White Sox (1971-1972): 373 games over ten major league seasons, a .200 average with 22 home runs and 91 RBI. A November 1970 trade sent him to Chicago with Jay Johnstone and Tom Bradley, and 1971 became his fullest year: 85 games, 10 homers, 34 RBI. California reclaimed him in the December 1973 Rule 5 draft, and on September 28, 1974 he caught Nolan Ryan's third no-hitter, a 15-strikeout game against Minnesota that ended with Ryan walking Harmon Killebrew and fanning Eric Soderholm. Egan played his last game on June 15, 1975 and was released by the Angels that year.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 331 | 2 | 40 | 193 | 56 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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 #147 card?
It is card #147 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Tom Egan of the California Angels.
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.