1968 Topps #513 Hank Bauer
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 Hank Bauer
Card #513, a series-6 issue, was Bauer's last as Baltimore's manager. He was home in Kansas City when general manager Harry Dalton called on July 10, 1968; the Orioles sat third at 43-37, ten and a half games behind Detroit, and first-base coach Earl Weaver had the job by the time Dalton's cab pulled away. Twenty-one months after the sweep of the Dodgers, Bauer was out of work.
Henry Albert Bauer was born July 31, 1922, in East St. Louis, Illinois, and enlisted in the Marine Corps in January 1942. He fought across the Pacific with the 4th Raider Battalion and the 4th Marines, took shrapnel on Guam and again on Okinawa, and came home with two Purple Hearts, two Bronze Stars and eleven campaign ribbons. A Yankee scout signed him in 1946; he reached New York in September 1948 and spent twelve seasons as their right fielder, starting the All-Star Game in 1952, 1953 and 1954 and winning seven World Series rings. He hit safely in seventeen straight World Series games from 1956 through 1958, the longest such streak in World Series history. Traded to Kansas City after the 1959 season in the deal that brought Roger Maris to New York, Bauer turned manager, running clubs in Kansas City, Baltimore and Oakland across eight seasons, winning the 1966 World Series with Baltimore and taking two Sporting News Manager of the Year awards. Known as "Old Potato Face," he died February 9, 2007, in Lenexa, Kansas.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (2)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 534 | 39 | 200 | 233 | 33 | 16 | 5 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 31 | 0 | 12 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 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 #513 card?
It is card #513 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Hank Bauer of the Baltimore Orioles. This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1968 Topps set, numbered among the regular cards rather than grouped as a subset.
Is 1968 Topps #513 a scarce card?
It is from the sixth print series (cards 458-533). Together with series 7 it forms the #458-598 block that hobby sources price at a modest premium; several catalogs call these cards high numbers outright.
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.