1967 Topps #270 Zoilo Versalles
About Zoilo Versalles
Card #270 is a third-series card in the 1967 Topps set, and it covers his last year as Minnesota's shortstop. He was in the lineup for 160 games, but the back was still with him and the bat went flat: a .200 average, 16 doubles, six home runs and five stolen bases, 22 fewer than he had two years earlier. He led American League shortstops in errors for a third straight season. With Rod Carew now in the infield, the Twins made the break that November, sending Versalles and pitcher Mudcat Grant to the Los Angeles Dodgers for catcher John Roseboro and pitchers Ron Perranoski and Bob Miller.
Zoilo Casanova Versalles Rodriguez, born December 18, 1939 in Havana, Cuba, was a shortstop signed by the Washington Senators in 1958. He debuted on August 1, 1959, hit just .153 in that trial, and went back to the minors before returning for good in 1961, the season the franchise settled in Minnesota as the Twins. He gave the position uncommon offense for the era, pacing the American League in triples three times and reaching double figures in home runs four straight years. The peak came in 1965: he led the league in runs, doubles, triples, extra-base hits and total bases, won a second Gold Glove, and was a near-unanimous American League Most Valuable Player, the first Latin American-born player to take the award. A hematoma in his lower back in 1966 never fully healed and his hitting collapsed. Minnesota traded him to the Los Angeles Dodgers after 1967; he later played for Cleveland, the expansion Washington Senators and Atlanta, spent a season in the Mexican League, and closed out in Japan with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in 1972. He died in Bloomington, Minnesota in 1995 at 55. He was elected to the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame in 2006; he is not in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 311 | 8 | 65 | 157 | 43 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 20 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 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 #270 card?
It is card #270 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Zoilo Versalles of the Minnesota Twins.
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.