1968 Topps #140 Tony Conigliaro
About Tony Conigliaro
Conigliaro did not appear in a major league game in 1968. The vision in his left eye, ruined by the previous August's beaning, was not good enough to hit with, and a doctor told him it was no longer safe to play. He worked out anyway, learned to pick the ball up with his peripheral vision, and spent that fall trying to remake himself as a pitcher before giving the idea up. This second-series card, issued during the season he sat out, still lists him with the Red Sox.
Tony Conigliaro was a Revere, Massachusetts kid who signed with the Red Sox out of high school and made the big club at nineteen. On the first pitch of his first Fenway Park at-bat, in the 1964 home opener, he hit a home run. He led the American League with 32 homers in 1965 at age twenty, the youngest home run champion in AL history, and when he reached 100 career home runs in July 1967 he was the youngest American Leaguer ever to get there. On August 18, 1967, during Boston's pennant-winning Impossible Dream season, a Jack Hamilton fastball struck him in the face, fracturing his left cheekbone and severely damaging his left retina. He missed the rest of that season and all of 1968, then came back in 1969 for 20 home runs and Comeback Player of the Year honors, and followed that with career highs of 36 homers and 116 RBI in 1970. The Red Sox traded him to the California Angels that October, and fading vision held him to .222 in 74 games in 1971. A 21-game return to Boston in 1975 closed his playing career. A heart attack and stroke in 1982 left him severely impaired until his death in 1990 at forty-five.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 562 | 15 | 132 | 213 | 87 | 51 | 26 | 37 | 1 |
| SGC | 58 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 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 #140 card?
It is card #140 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Tony Conigliaro of the Boston Red Sox.
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.