1968 Topps #400 Mike McCormick
Two collectible states: the team name across the front in yellow letters, which is the common printing, and in white letters, which is the scarcer one.
About Mike McCormick
Two cards for the year everything worked. In 1967 he threw 262 1/3 innings, completed 14 starts, spun five shutouts, struck out 150 and beat every National League club except the one he pitched for; the writers handed him 18 of their 20 first-place votes. Card #9 gathers the 1967 National League pitching leaders, him with Ferguson Jenkins, Jim Bunning and Claude Osteen. On the fifth-series #400 the team name across the front is printed either in yellow, the common state, or in the scarcer white.
Mike McCormick was born September 29, 1938, in Pasadena, California, and signed with the New York Giants on August 31, 1956, for a $50,000 bonus out of Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra. The bonus rule kept such a signing on the big-league roster, so the left-hander debuted four days later at seventeen, having never pitched in the minors. Sixteen seasons followed: the New York and San Francisco Giants (1956-1962 and 1967-1970), the Baltimore Orioles (1963-1964), the Washington Senators (1965-1966), the New York Yankees (1970) and the Kansas City Royals (1971). He led the National League with a 2.70 earned run average in 1960 and made all four All-Star squads of 1960 and 1961, when the majors staged two games a summer. A ruined shoulder nearly finished him at twenty-four; he rebuilt himself around a screwball and went 22-10 in 1967 to win San Francisco's first Cy Young Award and The Sporting News awards for Pitcher of the Year and Comeback Player of the Year. He retired with 134 wins, 128 losses, a 3.73 ERA, 1,321 strikeouts and 23 shutouts in 484 games, sold securities and then office equipment, and died June 13, 2020, at 81 in North Carolina. He is not a National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee; the Giants honor him on their Wall of Fame.
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Print variations
Two states of #400 are tracked individually: 400a - Yellow Team Letters and 400b - White Team Letters. The difference is on the front of the card (team letter color).
States catalogued by the PSA master set registry and the Trading Card Database; each is tracked here individually.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 400a - Yellow Team Letters | |||||||||
| PSA | 379 | 17 | 119 | 164 | 45 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 25 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 400b - White Team Letters | |||||||||
| PSA | 180 | 0 | 4 | 26 | 17 | 36 | 26 | 71 | 0 |
| SGC | 28 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 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. Where a grader registers a variation separately its population is listed under that variation; SGC slabs whose label names no variation are counted under 400a - Yellow Team Letters. Slabs of the yellow team-letter #49 and #66 are 1968 Milton Bradley game cards and are not counted here.
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More Mike McCormick in this set: #9 League Leaders
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- #5 National League 1967 Home Run Leaders
- #9 National League 1967 Pitching Leaders
- #11 National League 1967 Strikeout Leaders
- #32 Joe Gibbon
- #50 Willie Mays
- #73 Jim Hart
- #85 Gaylord Perry
- #104 Dick Dietz
- #126 Bobby Etheridge
- #147 Frank Linzy
- #169 Bob Bolin
- #185 Tom Haller
- #205 Juan Marichal
- #223 Ollie Brown
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #400 card?
It is card #400 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Mike McCormick of the San Francisco Giants.
Which #400 Mike McCormick is the base card, yellow or white letters?
The yellow-letter "GIANTS" is the base state and the white-letter card is the scarcer variation that carries the premium. Both were pack-issued - #400 is a series-5 card, outside the Milton Bradley run - the opposite polarity from #49 and #66, where yellow letters mark the game card.
Does 1968 Topps #400 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked individually: 400a - Yellow Team Letters ("GIANTS" printed in yellow letters - the base state. Both states were pack-issued; #400 is a series-5 card, outside the Milton Bradley run) and 400b - White Team Letters ("GIANTS" printed in white letters - the scarcer state, which carries the premium). Owning any one of them fills the #400 slot; the master set counts each state.
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.