1968 Topps #378 Bob Gibson
One of twenty Sporting News All-Star cards whose backs join up into photos of Orlando Cepeda and Carl Yastrzemski.
About this card
Cards #361-380 are the twenty Sporting News All-Stars - horizontal cards whose backs form a puzzle. The run straddles the series-4/5 boundary, ten cards on each side.
About Bob Gibson
A Roberto Clemente line drive broke Gibson's right leg on July 15, 1967; he faced three more batters before it gave way. He returned in September and finished 13-7 with a 2.98 earned run average. He then beat Boston three times, all complete games, for a second World Series Most Valuable Player award. Card #100 comes from the first series; #378 joins the Sporting News All-Star run, whose twenty backs form photos of Orlando Cepeda and Carl Yastrzemski.
Bob Gibson pitched all seventeen of his major-league seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals, 1959 through 1975, and few pitchers have ever been harder to dig in against. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1935, he starred in basketball at Creighton and spent four months touring with the Harlem Globetrotters before the Cardinals bought his undivided attention. Teammates called him Hoot, a name borrowed from the silent-screen cowboy star Hoot Gibson and kept because he was one, a clubhouse wit with a gift for mimicry. He worked fast, leaned on a vicious slider and two fastballs, and would not fraternize with the men he had to beat. Gibson won twenty games five times, took the Cy Young Award in 1968 and again in 1970, and was voted the National League's Most Valuable Player in 1968, the year his 1.12 earned run average helped push baseball to lower the pitching mound. Across three World Series he went 7-2 with a 1.89 earned run average and was twice named the Series' Most Valuable Player, in 1964 and 1967. He took nine straight Gold Gloves from 1965 through 1973, threw a no-hitter in 1971, and retired with 251 wins and 3,117 strikeouts, at the time second only to Walter Johnson. Cooperstown elected him on the first ballot in 1981. He died in 2020.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,204 | 26 | 204 | 337 | 198 | 164 | 91 | 184 | 0 |
| SGC | 275 | 1 | 33 | 45 | 41 | 44 | 49 | 57 | 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
More Bob Gibson in this set: #100
Team card: #497 St. Louis Cardinals
More St. Louis Cardinals cards:
- #3 National League 1967 RBI Leaders
- #25 Julian Javier
- #46 Dave Ricketts
- #68 Ron Willis
- #84 Bob Tolan
- #100 Bob Gibson
- #117 Larry Jaster
- #141 Dal Maxvill
- #151 World Series Game #1 - Brock Socks 4-Hits in Opener
- #153 World Series Game #3 - Briles Cools Off Boston
- #154 World Series Game #4 - Gibson Hurls Shutout!
- #157 World Series Game #7 - St. Louis Wins It!
- #158 1967 World Series - The Cardinals Celebrate!
- #162 Cardinals 1968 Rookie Stars
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #378 card?
It is card #378 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals. Cards #361-380 are the twenty Sporting News All-Stars - horizontal cards whose backs form a puzzle. The run straddles the series-4/5 boundary, ten cards on each side.
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.