1968 Topps #19 Juan Pizarro
A near-twin of this card was packed with the 1968 Milton Bradley Win-A-Card game; the game version has a brighter yellow back and a thin white line along the front edge.
About Juan Pizarro
Number 19 comes out of the first series, and it has a look-alike: 77 cards from the first two series of 1968 were packed into Milton Bradley's Win-A-Card game, Pizarro among them, and the game copies give themselves away with a brighter yellow back and a thin white line along the edge of the front. The Pirate pictured here was nearly done in Pittsburgh. Manager Larry Shepard gave him mop-up work only - twelve games, eleven innings - before the club waived him in June.
Juan Roman Pizarro Cordova, a hard-throwing left-hander born February 7, 1937, in Santurce, Puerto Rico, signed with the Milwaukee Braves in February 1956 and reached the majors in May 1957 at twenty years old. He pitched in the World Series that fall for a Milwaukee club that beat the Yankees, but he never held a steady place on a deep Braves staff. In December 1960 Milwaukee shipped him to Cincinnati, which passed him straight along to the Chicago White Sox, and in Chicago he finally arrived: an American League All-Star in 1963 and again in 1964, and the ace of a rotation that finished one game behind New York in 1964. A torn tendon in his pitching shoulder wrecked 1965, and from 1966 on he worked mainly in relief, closing out an 18-season, eight-team career in 1974. Nicknamed Terin as a boy, after neighborhood kids decided he looked like the hero of the comic strip Terry and the Pirates, he was also one of the finest pitchers the Puerto Rican Winter League has ever had and one of the first men chosen for the Puerto Rican Baseball Hall of Fame. He died in 2021.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 240 | 8 | 42 | 111 | 45 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 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 #19 card?
It is card #19 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Juan Pizarro of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Is #19 misspelled "Pizzaro"?
No. The card prints Pizarro; "Juan Pizzaro" is PSA CardFacts' own typo in its title for the card, not a print error.
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 2026-10-13.