1969 Topps #274 Clyde King
About this card
This is one of the 25 manager cards in the 1969 Topps set - one for each of the 24 clubs, with Washington twice (#294 Jim Lemon, the outgoing manager, and #650 Ted Williams, hired that February). Nine of the 25 are Hall of Famers.
About Clyde King
King's playing days are far behind him on this card, which catches him at the start of his managerial run with the San Francisco Giants, a club he took over for the 1969 season after piloting their Phoenix farm team the year before. With Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal and Gaylord Perry in the fold, King's Giants won 90 games in his first year at the helm, finishing second in the new National League West.
Clyde King was a right-handed pitcher who spent seven seasons in the majors, almost all of it with the Brooklyn Dodgers, before closing his playing days with the Cincinnati Reds in 1953. Signed out of the University of North Carolina in 1944, he debuted with Brooklyn that June and worked mostly out of the bullpen, posting his best season in 1951 with 14 wins and 121.1 innings pitched. He was a member of the pennant-winning 1947 and 1952 Dodgers clubs but never appeared in a World Series. Arm trouble shortened his career, and he retired after 1953 with 32 wins, 25 losses and a 4.14 ERA over 200 games. King went on to a long second career as a minor-league manager, big-league pitching coach, and manager of the San Francisco Giants, Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees, later serving the Yankees as general manager and special advisor.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 160 | 0 | 24 | 91 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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 #274 card?
It is card #274 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Clyde King of the San Francisco Giants. This is one of the 25 manager cards in the 1969 Topps set - one for each of the 24 clubs, with Washington twice (#294 Jim Lemon, the outgoing manager, and #650 Ted Williams, hired that February). Nine of the 25 are Hall of Famers.
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.