1968 Topps #148 Dave Bristol
Bristol never played in the major leagues; his career was entirely as a minor league player and manager before reaching Cincinnati's coaching staff in 1966.
About this card
This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1968 Topps set, numbered among the regular cards rather than grouped as a subset.
About Dave Bristol
Card #148, from the second print series, shows Bristol managing the Cincinnati Reds, who went 83-79 for fourth place in 1968, his second full year running the club he had inherited in mid-1966. He had built his managerial credentials in the Reds farm system through the late 1950s and early 1960s, never having played in the major leagues himself.
James David Bristol, born June 23, 1933 in Bristol, Georgia, was a minor league infielder who became a playing manager in the Cincinnati farm system in 1957 at age 24, but he never appeared in a major league game. By 1964 he was piloting the Reds' top affiliate, the Pacific Coast League San Diego Padres, to a pennant. His minor league clubs won 652 and lost 562 over his nine seasons as a pilot. Cincinnati promoted him to the big league coaching staff in 1966, and when manager Don Heffner struggled that July, Bristol took over the Reds in-season. He led Cincinnati through three winning campaigns before his 1969 dismissal, after which Sparky Anderson inherited the roster that became the Big Red Machine. Bristol went on to manage the Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves and San Francisco Giants, and coached for the Phillies and Expos across a career that spanned more than four decades in professional baseball.
Sources: Wikipedia · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 266 | 12 | 69 | 133 | 36 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 22 | 0 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 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. 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 #148 card?
It is card #148 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dave Bristol of the Cincinnati Reds. This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1968 Topps set, numbered among the regular cards rather than grouped as a subset.
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.