1968 Topps #530 Bird Belters - Frank Robinson / Brooks Robinson
On this card: Frank Robinson, Brooks Robinson
Combination card: Frank Robinson and Brooks Robinson of the Orioles, titled Bird Belters.
About this card
This is one of the three combo cards in the 1968 Topps set - #480 Manager's Dream (Oliva, Cardenas and Clemente), #490 Super Stars (Killebrew, Mays and Mantle) and #530 Bird Belters (Frank and Brooks Robinson) - each pairing stars under a headline rather than giving one man his own card.
The story on this card
Topps put Baltimore's two Robinsons on one card for #530 and titled it Bird Belters, a play on the Orioles name and the power both men brought to the lineup. Frank Robinson arrived from Cincinnati in a December 1965 trade and won the Triple Crown in his first Baltimore season, while Brooks Robinson had signed with the Orioles out of Little Rock in 1955. In Game 1 of the 1966 World Series they hit back-to-back home runs off Don Drysdale, and the Orioles swept the Dodgers. Both men were American League All-Stars again in 1967. The card comes from the sixth series.
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. Brooks Robinson manned third base for the Baltimore Orioles across 23 seasons, redefining the position with 16 straight Gold Gloves, the 1964 AL MVP award, and the show-stopping glovework that made him MVP of the 1970 World Series.
Sources: Wikipedia (Frank Robinson) · Wikipedia (Brooks Robinson) · SABR BioProject (Frank Robinson) · SABR BioProject (Brooks Robinson) · Baseball Almanac (Frank Robinson) · Baseball Almanac (Brooks Robinson)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,865 | 62 | 218 | 450 | 318 | 296 | 203 | 317 | 1 |
| SGC | 427 | 1 | 30 | 59 | 64 | 65 | 89 | 117 | 2 |
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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #530 card?
It is card #530 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Frank Robinson and Brooks Robinson. This is one of the three combo cards in the 1968 Topps set - #480 Manager's Dream (Oliva, Cardenas and Clemente), #490 Super Stars (Killebrew, Mays and Mantle) and #530 Bird Belters (Frank and Brooks Robinson) - each pairing stars under a headline rather than giving one man his own card.
Is 1968 Topps #530 a scarce card?
It is from the sixth print series (cards 458-533). Together with series 7 it forms the #458-598 block that hobby sources price at a modest premium; several catalogs call these cards high numbers outright.
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.