1968 Topps #187 Sonny Jackson
About Sonny Jackson
Jackson's 1968 Topps card, #187, is the first to show him in an Atlanta uniform. It comes from the second print series. His first season with the Braves was a step back at the plate, 105 games and 358 at-bats yielding a .226 average, 37 runs and 19 RBI, with a single home run the whole of his power output. He was still a pure shortstop, taking 99 of those 105 games at the position.
Roland Thomas Jackson, known as Sonny Jackson, was a left-handed hitting, right-handed throwing shortstop who spent twelve major league seasons with Houston and Atlanta between 1963 and 1974. Born July 9, 1944, in Washington, D.C., and listed at 5-foot-9 and 150 pounds, he debuted for the Houston Colt .45's on September 27, 1963 and got only scattered at-bats over the next two seasons. Because those trials were short he still qualified as a rookie in 1966, and he made it count: a .292 average, a National League-best 160 singles and 27 sacrifice hits, and 49 stolen bases that tied the major league rookie record Rollie Zeider set in 1910. Houston kept him at shortstop through 1967, and he spent the rest of his career with the Atlanta Braves. He was the Braves shortstop when Atlanta won the 1969 National League West, though the New York Mets swept the three-game NLCS, and he later moved to the outfield for a full 1971 season before his last game on July 9, 1974. Over 936 games he hit .251 with 767 hits, 7 home runs, 162 RBI and 126 stolen bases. He stayed in the game afterward as a minor league coach and manager in the Braves and San Francisco Giants organizations and as a coach with the Giants.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 293 | 2 | 50 | 157 | 55 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 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 #187 card?
It is card #187 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Sonny Jackson of the Atlanta Braves.
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.