1968 Topps #4 American League 1967 RBI Leaders - Carl Yastrzemski / Harmon Killebrew / Frank Robinson
On this card: Carl Yastrzemski, Harmon Killebrew, Frank Robinson
About this card
Cards #1-12 are the League Leaders subset: twelve horizontal cards, each listing the top three or four finishers in one 1967 statistical category, the National League card first and the American League card second in each pair.
The story on this card
Card #4 in the 1968 Topps set shows the American League RBI leaders from 1967, the year Boston's pennant race came down to the final weekend. Carl Yastrzemski topped the league with 121 RBIs for Boston, the RBI leg of the Triple Crown season that carried the Red Sox to the pennant on the last day of the schedule. Harmon Killebrew drove in 113 for Minnesota, matching Yastrzemski with 44 home runs as the Twins finished a game behind Boston. Frank Robinson added 94 RBIs for Baltimore, far from that year's race. All three had worn an American League MVP crown or soon would: Robinson had already won it in 1966 with his own Triple Crown, and Yastrzemski took the award for 1967. The card puts three sluggers and three very different Octobers on a single piece of cardboard.
Carl Yastrzemski, 'Yaz,' gave Boston all 23 of his seasons, following Ted Williams in left field. He won the 1967 Triple Crown and MVP, three batting titles, seven Gold Gloves and 18 All-Star nods, and reached Cooperstown on the first ballot in 1989. Harmon Killebrew was the Twins' quiet, powerfully built slugger of the 1960s, a six-time American League home run champion who hit more homers in the decade than anyone else and won the 1969 AL Most Valuable Player award. Frank Robinson - Cincinnati's 1961 National League MVP, then Baltimore's 1966 American League Triple Crown winner, MVP and World Series MVP after one of baseball's most lopsided trades; nicknamed "the Judge," he later became the majors' first Black manager.
Sources: Wikipedia (Carl Yastrzemski) · Wikipedia (Harmon Killebrew) · Wikipedia (Frank Robinson) · SABR BioProject (Harmon Killebrew) · SABR BioProject (Frank Robinson) · Baseball Almanac (Carl Yastrzemski) · Baseball Almanac (Harmon Killebrew) · Baseball Almanac (Frank Robinson)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,706 | 8 | 140 | 418 | 307 | 283 | 189 | 358 | 3 |
| SGC | 373 | 0 | 9 | 39 | 65 | 64 | 78 | 113 | 5 |
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. Slabs of the yellow team-letter #49 and #66 are 1968 Milton Bradley game cards and are not counted here.
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Related cards
Team cards: #137 Minnesota Twins, #334 Baltimore Orioles
More Boston Red Sox cards:
- #2 American League 1967 Batting Leaders
- #6 American League 1967 Home Run Leaders
- #10 American League 1967 Pitching Leaders
- #12 American League 1967 Strikeout Leaders
- #26 Darrell Brandon
- #43 Gary Bell
More Minnesota Twins cards:
- #6 American League 1967 Home Run Leaders
- #10 American League 1967 Pitching Leaders
- #12 American League 1967 Strikeout Leaders
- #28 Ted Uhlaender
- #44 Frank Kostro
- #64 Jim Merritt
More Baltimore Orioles cards:
- #2 American League 1967 Batting Leaders
- #20 Brooks Robinson
- #42 Larry Haney
- #56 Orioles 1968 Rookie Stars
- #82 Sam Bowens
- #97 Tom Phoebus
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #4 card?
It is card #4 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Carl Yastrzemski, Harmon Killebrew and Frank Robinson. Cards #1-12 are the League Leaders subset: twelve horizontal cards, each listing the top three or four finishers in one 1967 statistical category, the National League card first and the American League card second in each pair.
How many cards are in the 1968 Topps Baseball set?
598 cards, tracked as 606 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 598 without a gap and no printed number carries two different cards; eight cards - six of the seven checklists, #10 AL Pitching Leaders and #400 Mike McCormick - carry a catalogued print variation that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, Baseball Almanac, Beckett, 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.