1968 Topps #363 Rod Carew
Sporting News All-Star card; the backs form a puzzle.
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 Rod Carew
Topps rewarded Carew's rookie season with two 1968 cards. His base card, #80 in the first series, is his second-year card and carries the trophy Topps placed on cards of its 1967 All-Star Rookie team. Collectors should not confuse it with the look-alike from the 1968 Milton Bradley Win-A-Card game, which has a yellow-tinged back. His second card is #363 in the fourth series, a Sporting News All-Star card whose back is one piece of a jigsaw puzzle. On the field Carew batted .273 over 127 games while earning his second All-Star selection.
Rod Carew was born October 1, 1945, on a train in Gatun, in the Panama Canal Zone, and moved to New York City's Washington Heights as a teenager. Discovered playing sandlot ball for the Bronx Cavaliers, he signed with the Minnesota Twins as an amateur free agent in 1964 and reached the majors in 1967, hitting .292 at second base to win the American League Rookie of the Year award. Carew made 18 straight All-Star teams from 1967 through 1984, starring for the Twins through 1978 and the California Angels from 1979 to 1985, and won seven AL batting titles, second only to Ty Cobb in league history. His finest season came in 1977, when he was hitting above .400 into July before finishing at .388 with a career-high 239 hits, winning the AL Most Valuable Player award and the Roberto Clemente Award; in 2016 the American League batting title was renamed in his honor. On August 4, 1985, Carew singled off Frank Viola for his 3,000th hit, and he retired with a .328 average and 3,053 hits. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991, his first year of eligibility, and later coached for the Angels and the Milwaukee Brewers.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,378 | 25 | 197 | 447 | 251 | 168 | 111 | 179 | 0 |
| SGC | 221 | 1 | 15 | 52 | 43 | 39 | 25 | 46 | 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 Rod Carew in this set: #80
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 #363 card?
It is card #363 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Rod Carew 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.