1968 Topps #369 Carl Yastrzemski
One of twenty Sporting News All-Star cards whose backs join up into pictures of Carl Yastrzemski and Orlando Cepeda.
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 Carl Yastrzemski
Yastrzemski is on seven 1968 Topps cards, counting World Series card #152 and the #192 checklist that pictures him, and all but the checklist look back on 1967. Yastrzemski heads all three first-series League Leaders cards: #2 for batting, above Frank Robinson and Al Kaline; #4 for runs batted in with 121, ahead of Harmon Killebrew and Robinson; and #6 for home runs, where his 44 tied Killebrew, with Frank Howard third. #250 is the third-series solo card, issued the year after his Triple Crown. #369 is a fourth-series Sporting News All-Star card and the sleeper of the group: ten of the twenty All-Star backs join up into a picture of Yastrzemski, with the other ten forming Orlando Cepeda, so the payoff only arrives if you own the whole subset.
Carl Yastrzemski was born August 22, 1939, in Southampton, New York, and grew up on his father's Long Island potato farm before signing with the Boston Red Sox in 1958 as a Notre Dame freshman. He spent his entire 23-year career (1961-1983) with that one club, taking over left field from the retiring Ted Williams as a 21-year-old rookie and shifting later to first base and designated hitter. Nicknamed Yaz, he won three American League batting titles (1963, 1967, 1968), seven Gold Gloves and eighteen All-Star selections. His signature season came in 1967, when he took the Triple Crown by leading the league in average, home runs and runs batted in, and was voted American League Most Valuable Player one vote short of unanimously while carrying the Impossible Dream Red Sox to their first pennant since 1946. He finished with 3,419 hits and 452 home runs, the first American League player to reach both 3,000 hits and 400 homers, and he is still the Red Sox all-time leader in games, hits, runs, runs batted in, doubles and total bases. Yastrzemski was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989, his first year of eligibility, with 94.6 percent of the vote. His grandson Mike Yastrzemski later reached the majors as an outfielder.
Sources: Wikipedia · Baseball-Reference · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (2) · Sports Illustrated
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,707 | 38 | 208 | 541 | 323 | 223 | 144 | 229 | 1 |
| SGC | 273 | 0 | 23 | 38 | 42 | 56 | 50 | 62 | 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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Related cards
More Carl Yastrzemski in this set: #2 League Leaders, #4 League Leaders, #6 League Leaders, #250
More Boston Red Sox cards:
- #2 American League 1967 Batting Leaders
- #4 American League 1967 RBI 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
- #61 Reggie Smith
- #87 Dick Williams
- #106 Dalton Jones
- #123 Jose Santiago
- #140 Tony Conigliaro
- #152 World Series Game #2 - Yaz Smashes Two Homers
- #155 World Series Game #5 - Lonborg Wins Again!
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #369 card?
It is card #369 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox. 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.