1967 Topps #280 Tony Conigliaro
About Tony Conigliaro
Conigliaro hit his 100th and 101st career home runs on July 23, 1967, the youngest American Leaguer ever to reach the milestone, and was picked for what proved to be his only All-Star Game. On August 18 a Jack Hamilton fastball struck him in the face, fracturing his left cheekbone and severely damaging his left retina; his year ended there, at 95 games, a .287 average, 20 home runs and 67 RBI. Boston reached the World Series without him. This third-series card shows the Impossible Dream club's young right fielder.
Tony Conigliaro was a Revere, Massachusetts kid who signed with the Red Sox out of high school and made the big club at nineteen. On the first pitch of his first Fenway Park at-bat, in the 1964 home opener, he hit a home run. He led the American League with 32 homers in 1965 at age twenty, the youngest home run champion in AL history, and when he reached 100 career home runs in July 1967 he was the youngest American Leaguer ever to get there. On August 18, 1967, during Boston's pennant-winning Impossible Dream season, a Jack Hamilton fastball struck him in the face, fracturing his left cheekbone and severely damaging his left retina. He missed the rest of that season and all of 1968, then came back in 1969 for 20 home runs and Comeback Player of the Year honors, and followed that with career highs of 36 homers and 116 RBI in 1970. The Red Sox traded him to the California Angels that October, and fading vision held him to .222 in 74 games in 1971. A 21-game return to Boston in 1975 closed his playing career. A heart attack and stroke in 1982 left him severely impaired until his death in 1990 at forty-five.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 643 | 2 | 57 | 281 | 157 | 85 | 25 | 35 | 1 |
| SGC | 75 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 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 #280 card?
It is card #280 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Tony Conigliaro of the Boston Red Sox.
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.
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