1969 Topps #232 Dave Ricketts
About Dave Ricketts
Card #232 lands in the third series, a mid-set Cardinals card from his last summer in St. Louis. Ricketts started seven games behind the plate, pinch-hit the rest of the way, and hit .273 in 44 at-bats while drawing praise around the organization as a future coach or manager. After the season the Cardinals sent him and pitcher Dave Giusti to Pittsburgh for Carl Taylor and a minor leaguer.
David William Ricketts was a bespectacled, switch-hitting catcher who played parts of six major league seasons between 1963 and 1970 for the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates. Born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, in 1935, he starred in baseball and basketball at Duquesne University, won a National Invitation Tournament title alongside his older brother Dick, and graduated in 1957 with an education degree he later put to work teaching mathematics and social studies in the offseasons. He signed with St. Louis that June, missed 1958 and 1959 on Army duty, and spent most of a decade in the minors before a .327 year at Tulsa in 1966 finally earned him a big league job he never gave back. He caught behind Tim McCarver on the 1967 world champions, dropped to third catcher once Johnny Edwards arrived in 1968, and was traded to Pittsburgh after the 1969 season. His only home run came off Bob Veale in September 1967. Ricketts then built a longer second career in uniform, coaching the Pirates bullpen from 1971 through 1973, including a championship club, and the Cardinals bullpen across parts of two decades, one of the few Black coaches in the game when he started. He died of renal cancer in 2008, a day after his 73rd birthday.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 210 | 3 | 20 | 105 | 55 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| SGC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1969 Topps #232 card?
It is card #232 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dave Ricketts of the St. Louis Cardinals.
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.