1968 Topps #361 Harmon Killebrew
One of the Sporting News All-Star cards in the set whose backs join together to form pictures.
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 Harmon Killebrew
Five 1968 cards report a 1967 season in which Killebrew tied Carl Yastrzemski for the American League home run lead at 44, drove in 113 runs, led the league with 131 walks and finished a distant second to Yastrzemski in MVP voting; the Twins carried a one-game lead into the last two games at Boston, lost both and tied Detroit for second. Cards 4 and 6 are first-series league leaders cards, one grouping him with Yastrzemski and Frank Robinson and the other with Yastrzemski and Frank Howard; card 220 is his own third-series card and a key one, and card 361 a Sporting News All-Star. Those four are plain numbers. Card 490 is a sixth-series card that puts him beside Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle. None of the five is a rookie card.
Harmon Killebrew signed with the Washington Senators out of Payette, Idaho in 1954, a bonus baby whose contract kept the seventeen-year-old on the big-league roster for two full seasons. He broke through in 1959, tying Rocky Colavito for the American League home run lead with 42, and when the franchise moved to Minnesota for 1961 he became the middle of the Twins order for the next decade, shifting between first base, third base and left field as needed. A compact, quiet-tempered slugger built for pure power, he led the American League in home runs six times and in runs batted in three times, reached 40 homers in eight different seasons, and hit 393 home runs during the 1960s, more than any other player in the decade. His finest year was 1969: 49 home runs, 140 RBIs, the American League Most Valuable Player award and the Twins' first AL West title. He reached the World Series once, in 1965, a seven-game loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was known as the Killer, though by every account a gentle man off the field. He finished with Kansas City in 1975, retiring with 573 home runs, fifth on the career list at the time, and the Twins retired his No. 3. Cooperstown elected him in 1984, the first Twin so honored.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,347 | 20 | 165 | 429 | 353 | 141 | 88 | 151 | 0 |
| SGC | 157 | 0 | 12 | 27 | 38 | 33 | 22 | 25 | 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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Related cards
More Harmon Killebrew in this set: #4 League Leaders, #6 League Leaders, #220, #490 Combo
Team card: #137 Minnesota Twins
More Minnesota Twins cards:
- #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
- #28 Ted Uhlaender
- #44 Frank Kostro
- #64 Jim Merritt
- #80 Rod Carew
- #91 Jim Ollom
- #111 Rich Reese
- #165 Tony Oliva
- #181 Jerry Zimmerman
- #206 Cal Ermer
- #220 Harmon Killebrew
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #361 card?
It is card #361 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins. 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.