1968 Topps #320 Frank Howard
About Frank Howard
Howard turns up twice in 1968 Topps. #6, a first-series League Leaders card, is the American League home run leaders board for 1967, where his 36 rank third behind Carl Yastrzemski and Harmon Killebrew; #320, from the fourth series, is his own Senators card. The season around them was his arrival: in the Year of the Pitcher he led the American League and the majors with 44 home runs, 330 total bases and a .552 slugging mark, finished second in RBIs with 106, and hit 10 home runs in six games from May 12 to 18, on 20 at-bats, a major league record. He started the All-Star Game, the first of four straight selections, and began taking regular turns at first base.
Frank Oliver Howard, born August 8, 1936 in Columbus, Ohio, was one of the most physically imposing sluggers the game has seen, listed at 6-foot-7 and 255 pounds and heavier still in later years. An All-American in both basketball and baseball at Ohio State, he was drafted by the NBA's Philadelphia Warriors but signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1958 for a $108,000 bonus. After The Sporting News named him its 1959 Minor League Player of the Year, he took over in right field and won the 1960 National League Rookie of the Year award; he later homered off Whitey Ford in Game 4 of the Dodgers' 1963 World Series sweep. Traded to the Washington Senators in December 1964, he became the franchise's biggest draw, twice leading the American League in home runs and making four straight All-Star teams from 1968 through 1971. Teammates tagged him "Hondo" in 1958 after the John Wayne film; in Washington he added "the Capital Punisher" and "the Washington Monument." He retired after the 1973 season with 382 home runs and 1,119 RBIs, coached and managed in the majors for most of the next two decades, entered the Washington Nationals Ring of Honor in 2016, and died in 2023 at 87.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · Baseball Almanac
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 495 | 11 | 110 | 230 | 75 | 34 | 9 | 26 | 0 |
| SGC | 42 | 1 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 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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- #49 Ed Brinkman
- #66 Casey Cox
- #96 Senators 1968 Rookie Stars
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- #131 Frank Bertaina
- #149 Bob Saverine
- #188 Cap Peterson
- #209 Tim Cullen
- #231 Dave Baldwin
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- #268 Bob Humphreys
- #291 Dick Lines
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #320 card?
It is card #320 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Frank Howard of the Washington Senators.
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.