1969 Topps #658 American League Rookie Stars - Tom Hall / Bill Burbach / Jim Miles
On this card: Tom Hall, Bill Burbach, Jim Miles
About this card
This is one of the 52 Rookie Stars cards in the 1969 Topps set, each carrying two or three young players under a club or league title. A Rookie Stars card is a rookie card only for the players pictured who had no earlier Topps flagship card - the rookie-card answer on each card names them.
The story on this card
Hall broke into the Twins' rotation under rookie manager Billy Martin, throwing a two-hit shutout in only his second start of the year. Used as both a starter and reliever, he finished 8-7 with a 3.33 ERA over 140-plus innings, then retired both batters he faced as the Orioles swept Minnesota in the ALCS. Card #658, a high number in the seventh print series, is a multi-player Rookie Stars subset shared with Bill Burbach of the Yankees and Jim Miles of the Senators, and is recognized as Hall's rookie card. A slender left-hander nicknamed "the Blade," Tom Hall pitched for four clubs from 1968 to 1977, working as both a starter and a bullpen arm on the pennant-winning 1972 Reds.
Card #658 is a Rookie Stars multi-player card from the set's seventh series, a high number pairing Burbach with Tom Hall of the Minnesota Twins and Jim Miles of the Washington Senators; it stands as Burbach's recognized rookie card. The season pictured was his first in the majors after four years working through the Yankees' farm system following his first-round selection in the 1965 draft. Burbach made 31 appearances for New York that year, starting 24 of them and throwing two complete games including a shutout, finishing 6-8 with a 3.65 ERA across 140.2 innings and 82 strikeouts. A first-round Yankees draft pick out of Wisconsin, Burbach spent four minor league seasons developing before a three-year big league run as a right-handed starter and reliever.
Miles' card is 1969 Topps #658, a high-number Rookie Stars card from the set's seventh print series, shared with Tom Hall of the Minnesota Twins and Bill Burbach of the New York Yankees; it is a recognized rookie card. That season he returned to Washington for ten games, including his only career start, on August 13 against the Kansas City Royals, in which he was tagged with the loss. Right-handed pitcher from Grenada, Mississippi, and Delta State University who worked thirteen games for the Washington Senators across the 1968 and 1969 seasons, striking out 20 batters in his brief big-league career.
Sources: Wikipedia (Tom Hall) · Wikipedia (Bill Burbach) · Wikipedia (Jim Miles) · SABR BioProject
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 442 | 10 | 136 | 224 | 37 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 5 |
| SGC | 24 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 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.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1969 Topps #658 card?
It is card #658 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Tom Hall, Bill Burbach and Jim Miles. This is one of the 52 Rookie Stars cards in the 1969 Topps set, each carrying two or three young players under a club or league title. A Rookie Stars card is a rookie card only for the players pictured who had no earlier Topps flagship card - the rookie-card answer on each card names them.
Is 1969 Topps #658 a rookie card?
Yes - #658 is a rookie card for every player pictured on it: Tom Hall, Bill Burbach and Jim Miles.
Why is #658 harder to find?
It is a high number card from the seventh and last print series, #589-664 - the scarce end of the set.
How many cards are in the 1969 Topps Baseball set?
664 cards, tracked as 696 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 664 with none skipped and no printed number shared by two cards; 32 cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately, 23 of them the yellow- and white-letter name pairs of #440-511.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, Baseball Almanac, 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.