1967 Topps #373 White Sox Rookie Stars - Duane Josephson / Fred Klages
On this card: Duane Josephson, Fred Klages
About this card
This is one of the 43 Rookie Stars cards in the set, each pairing two prospects. Thirty-nine are titled by club; #569, #576, #587 and #592 carry a league title and cover two clubs each.
The story on this card
Eddie Stanky named Josephson the White Sox' catcher to open 1967, but a batting-practice mishap - the follow-through of Frank Howard's swing caught him in the head and took eight stitches - cost him time, and a jammed thumb from a home-plate collision, then a broken finger from a foul ball, limited him to 62 games behind J.C. Martin; he hit .238. His only home run that year, off Detroit's Johnny Podres on July 30, was the White Sox' lone run in a 7-1 loss. His 1967 Topps card, number 373 with the Chicago White Sox, is a series 5 Rookie Stars subset entry shared with fellow prospect Fred Klages; it is Josephson's rookie card. New Hampton, Iowa's own big-league catcher, a 1966 Pacific Coast League MVP who made the 1968 All-Star team before a heart ailment ended his career at 30.
Klages spent all of 1967 with the Chicago White Sox, making 11 pitching appearances with 9 starts, 44.2 innings, a 3.83 ERA and a 4-4 record. Topps put him on card #373, a fifth-series card in the multi-player Rookie Stars subset with a horizontal front, sharing it with Duane Josephson. He would pitch his last major league game that September. Right-handed pitcher who debuted with the Chicago White Sox in September 1966 and pitched his last big-league game exactly one year later, finishing 5-4 with a 3.28 ERA.
Sources: Wikipedia (Duane Josephson) · Wikipedia (Fred Klages) · SABR BioProject
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 297 | 3 | 39 | 157 | 61 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 4 |
| SGC | 21 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 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 #373 card?
It is card #373 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Duane Josephson and Fred Klages. This is one of the 43 Rookie Stars cards in the set, each pairing two prospects. Thirty-nine are titled by club; #569, #576, #587 and #592 carry a league title and cover two clubs each.
Is 1967 Topps #373 a rookie card?
Yes - #373 is a rookie card for every player pictured on it: Duane Josephson and Fred Klages.
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.