1968 Topps #15 Ron Hunt
About Ron Hunt
Card #15 comes from the first series and is Hunt's second and last Topps card in Dodger blue. The back covers his only Los Angeles season: .263 in 110 games for a club that had won the 1966 pennant at 95-67 and then collapsed to 73-89 without the retired Sandy Koufax and the traded Maury Wills. Injuries dogged him all year, though Walter Alston, a manager he admired, said Hunt had worked that spring as if the pennant were on the line. By the time the card reached packs he was gone: on February 13, 1968 the Dodgers sent him and Nate Oliver to San Francisco for catcher Tom Haller and Frank Kasheta.
Ron Hunt signed with the Milwaukee Braves as an amateur free agent in 1959 and was sold to the New York Mets on October 11, 1962. A right-handed-hitting second baseman born in St. Louis, he won the Mets' second-base job as a rookie and finished runner-up to Pete Rose for the 1963 National League Rookie of the Year award. He was an All-Star in 1964 and 1966 and, in 1964, the first Met ever elected to start an All-Star Game. Traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers after the 1966 season and to the San Francisco Giants in February 1968, he made his living crowding the plate and refusing to give ground on inside pitches, leading the National League in hit by pitches for seven straight seasons from 1968 through 1974 and setting the modern single-season record with 50 for Montreal in 1971. Over twelve seasons he batted .273 with 1,429 hits, and his 243 career hit by pitches stood as a post-dead-ball-era record when he retired. "Some folks give their bodies to science," he said. "I gave mine to baseball." He belongs to the Montreal Expos Hall of Fame, founded the Ron Hunt Eagles Baseball Association for college-bound players in 1987, and died on July 15, 2026, at age 85.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 443 | 31 | 124 | 198 | 44 | 22 | 16 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 18 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 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 #15 card?
It is card #15 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ron Hunt of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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.