1968 Topps #5 National League 1967 Home Run Leaders - Hank Aaron / Jim Wynn / Ron Santo / Willie McCovey
On this card: Hank Aaron, Jim Wynn, Ron Santo, Willie McCovey
About this card
Cards #1-12 are the League Leaders subset: twelve horizontal cards, each listing the top three or four finishers in one 1967 statistical category, the National League card first and the American League card second in each pair.
The story on this card
Card #5 of Topps' 1968 League Leaders subset presents the National League home run race from 1967: the Braves' Hank Aaron topped the circuit with 39, two ahead of the Astros' Jim Wynn at 37, with the Cubs' Ron Santo and the Giants' Willie McCovey tied behind them at 31. Aaron's total held up despite a season in which Wynn nearly matched him even while playing half his games in the cavernous Astrodome, while Santo anchored the Cubs' infield with his glove and bat at third, and McCovey supplied the power at first for San Francisco. The card lines up all four sluggers together, crediting each man's club rather than retelling his career, as part of print series one.
Hank Aaron was the Braves' right fielder and one of the greatest hitters in history, a 25-time All-Star who broke Babe Ruth's home run record in 1974 on his way to 755 career homers. James Sherman "Jim" Wynn, nicknamed "Toy Cannon" for hitting with outsized power despite his small frame, anchored center field for the Houston Colt .45's/Astros for a decade and was a three-time All-Star (1967 with Houston, 1974 and 1975 with the Dodgers) over a 15-year career. Ron Santo played third base for the Chicago Cubs through the 1960s, a nine-time All-Star and five-time Gold Glove winner who hid his diabetes for years, later called Cubs games on the radio, and reached the Hall of Fame in 2012. Willie McCovey, "Stretch," was the towering left-handed slugger who hit behind Willie Mays in San Francisco -- a three-time National League home run champion, the 1969 Most Valuable Player, and a Hall of Famer with 521 career home runs.
Sources: Wikipedia (Hank Aaron) · Wikipedia (Ron Santo) · Wikipedia (Willie McCovey) · SABR BioProject (Jim Wynn) · SABR BioProject (Hank Aaron) · SABR BioProject (Ron Santo) · SABR BioProject (Willie Mccovey) · Baseball Almanac (Hank Aaron) · Baseball Almanac (Ron Santo) · Baseball Almanac (Willie McCovey) · Retrosheet · Trading Card Database
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,130 | 2 | 32 | 138 | 164 | 211 | 173 | 407 | 3 |
| SGC | 290 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 18 | 39 | 69 | 146 | 4 |
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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Team card: #221 Atlanta Braves
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More Houston Astros cards:
- #21 Ron Davis
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- #128 Houston 1968 Rookie Stars
More Chicago Cubs cards:
- #9 National League 1967 Pitching Leaders
- #11 National League 1967 Strikeout Leaders
- #13 Chuck Hartenstein
- #37 Billy Williams
- #60 Ken Holtzman
- #83 John Stephenson
More San Francisco Giants cards:
- #9 National League 1967 Pitching Leaders
- #11 National League 1967 Strikeout Leaders
- #32 Joe Gibbon
- #50 Willie Mays
- #73 Jim Hart
- #85 Gaylord Perry
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #5 card?
It is card #5 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Hank Aaron, Jim Wynn, Ron Santo and Willie McCovey. Cards #1-12 are the League Leaders subset: twelve horizontal cards, each listing the top three or four finishers in one 1967 statistical category, the National League card first and the American League card second in each pair.
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.