1967 Topps #480 Willie McCovey
About Willie McCovey
McCovey's 1966 fills two 1967 cards: number 480, a card out of the sixth series, and 423, the Fence Busters card he shares with Willie Mays. The billing was earned. Mays hit 37 home runs that year and McCovey 36, seventy-three between them, and McCovey added 96 RBI and a .295 average while finishing second in the league in slugging. The long first-base tangle ended in May, when the Giants traded Cepeda to St. Louis; neither man played the outfield again. That July McCovey batted cleanup in the All-Star Game, behind Mays, Roberto Clemente and Hank Aaron.
Born in Mobile, Alabama, on January 10, 1938, McCovey signed with the New York Giants in 1955 out of a Florida tryout camp. He reached the majors on July 30, 1959, four-for-four with two triples off Hall of Famer Robin Roberts, and finished at .354 with 13 home runs in 52 games to win National League Rookie of the Year. Six feet four, he was "Stretch" for the reach he gave the Giants at first base, and he grew into a dead-pull line-drive hitter who drew shifts and record intentional walks. He played 19 seasons for San Francisco, with San Diego and Oakland in between. He led the National League in home runs in 1963, 1968 and 1969 and in runs batted in in 1968 and 1969, and his 1969 line of 45 homers, 126 RBI and a .320 average brought the Most Valuable Player award. He made six All-Star teams and homered twice to win the 1969 All-Star Game MVP. His only World Series, in 1962, ended with his ninth-inning liner in the glove of Yankees second baseman Bobby Richardson, tying and winning runs stranded. He retired in 1980 with 521 home runs, entered the Hall of Fame in 1986 on the first ballot, and gave his name to the cove beyond the Giants' right-field wall.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,735 | 4 | 85 | 440 | 443 | 306 | 203 | 253 | 1 |
| SGC | 350 | 0 | 4 | 37 | 86 | 82 | 69 | 69 | 3 |
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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Related cards
More Willie McCovey in this set: #423 Combo
Team card: #516 San Francisco Giants
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- #4 Hal Lanier
- #46 Lindy McDaniel
- #65 Tom Haller
- #83 Ollie Brown
- #86 Mike McCormick
- #116 Herman Franks
- #132 Ozzie Virgil
- #156 Ron Herbel
- #177 Tito Fuentes
- #200 Willie Mays
- #220 Jim Hart
- #234 National League 1966 ERA Leaders
- #236 National League 1966 Pitching Leaders
- #244 National League 1966 Home Run Leaders
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1967 Topps #480 card?
It is card #480 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Willie McCovey of the San Francisco Giants.
Why is #480 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.