1968 Topps #87 Dick Williams
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 Dick Williams
Card #87, from the 1968 set's first series, pictures the manager who had just engineered one of the great turnarounds in the game. Boston went 92-70 in 1967, a 20-win jump, and came out of a four-team September scramble with the flag; then St. Louis beat them in seven, Bob Gibson starting and winning three times and finishing Game Seven with a three-hitter and 10 strikeouts. The Sporting News named Williams its Major League Manager of the Year, the Associated Press honored him as well, and the Red Sox handed him a new three-year contract. Fenway had led the American League in attendance for the first time since Babe Ruth pitched there.
Richard Hirschfeld Williams played parts of 13 major-league seasons between 1951 and 1964, a well-traveled utility man for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics and Boston Red Sox. He finished with a .260 average, 768 hits, 70 home runs and 331 RBI in 1,023 games, appearing 257 times at third base, 188 at first and most of the rest in the outfield. A shoulder separation suffered on a diving catch in August 1952 permanently weakened his throwing arm and pushed him toward the versatile, alert-minded game that defined him in the dugout. Boston released him in October 1964. He took over the Red Sox' Triple-A Toronto Maple Leafs and won Governors' Cup titles in 1965 and 1966, then inherited a big-league club that had finished ninth in the ten-team American League and drove it to the 1967 'Impossible Dream' pennant, a race settled on the final weekend and a seven-game World Series loss to St. Louis. Across 21 seasons he managed six franchises, winning back-to-back World Series with the Oakland Athletics in 1972 and 1973 and a National League pennant with the 1984 San Diego Padres, finishing with 1,571 managerial wins. The Veterans Committee elected him to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in December 2007; he was inducted in 2008.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 359 | 8 | 96 | 159 | 39 | 30 | 16 | 11 | 0 |
| SGC | 24 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 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 #87 card?
It is card #87 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dick Williams of the Boston Red Sox. 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.