1968 Topps #321 Leo Durocher
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 Leo Durocher
Card #321 in Topps' fourth series reports Durocher's 1967 season, when the turnaround he had promised began to show. After finishing tenth in his first year, the Cubs started strongly in 1967 and went 87-74, finishing third in the National League. It was only the club's second winning season since 1946, and for collectors this plain fourth-series card marks the moment Durocher's Cubs stopped being a punch line and started climbing the standings.
Leo Durocher spent nearly half a century in the major leagues, first as a slick-fielding, light-hitting shortstop and later as one of the game's most combative managers. He got a two-game trial with the 1925 Yankees, became a regular there in 1928 and played through 1945 with the Reds, Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, winning World Series rings as a player in 1928 and 1934. Nicknamed "Leo the Lip" for his incessant yapping, he became Brooklyn's player-manager in 1939 and led the Dodgers to the 1941 pennant, then took over the New York Giants in 1948, winning the 1951 pennant on Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World" and sweeping the 1954 World Series. He returned to the dugout in 1966 to manage the Chicago Cubs into 1972, then closed his career with the Houston Astros, retiring with 2,008 wins, fifth all-time. The line "nice guys finish last," a newspaper condensation of a 1946 remark he later adopted, entered the language. Durocher died in 1991 and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1994 by the Veterans Committee.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 416 | 6 | 96 | 190 | 51 | 41 | 20 | 12 | 0 |
| SGC | 43 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 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 #321 card?
It is card #321 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Leo Durocher of the Chicago Cubs. 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.