1969 Topps #572 Giants Heroes - Willie McCovey / Juan Marichal
On this card: Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal
About this card
This is one of the four combo cards in the 1969 Topps set - #532 Bird Hill Aces, #539 Ted Shows How, #556 A's Stars and #572 Giants Heroes - each grouping men from one club under a headline rather than giving one man his own card.
The story on this card
Card 572, Giants Heroes, pairs Willie McCovey and Juan Marichal, the two stars who carried San Francisco through the decade. Both had led the National League in 1968 - McCovey in home runs and RBI, Marichal in wins - and in 1969, while the card was in packs, McCovey hit .320 with 45 home runs and 126 RBI to win the National League MVP award, then was named Most Valuable Player of that year's All-Star Game after homering twice. Marichal went 21-11 with a league-best 2.10 ERA, the eighth straight season he made the All-Star team. The two had been teammates since Marichal's 1960 debut and McCovey's 1959 rookie year, and by 1969 each anchored the club, McCovey at first base and Marichal in the rotation. The Giants Heroes card paired them while both were at their peak, McCovey the league's top hitter and Marichal one of its most consistent winners.
Willie McCovey, "Stretch," was the towering left-handed slugger who hit behind Willie Mays in San Francisco -- a three-time National League home run champion, the 1969 Most Valuable Player, and a Hall of Famer with 521 career home runs. Juan Marichal - the Dominican Dandy's high leg kick fronted the winningest arm of the 1960s: 191 victories in the decade, nine All-Star teams, 243 career wins, and in 1983 the first Hall of Fame plaque ever hung for a Dominican-born player.
Sources: Wikipedia (Willie McCovey) · Wikipedia (Juan Marichal) · SABR BioProject (Willie Mccovey) · SABR BioProject (Juan Marichal) · Baseball Almanac (Willie McCovey) · Baseball Almanac (Juan Marichal) · Retrosheet
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,004 | 4 | 75 | 370 | 234 | 121 | 84 | 114 | 2 |
| SGC | 140 | 0 | 3 | 23 | 35 | 27 | 16 | 36 | 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 #572 card?
It is card #572 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Willie McCovey and Juan Marichal. This is one of the four combo cards in the 1969 Topps set - #532 Bird Hill Aces, #539 Ted Shows How, #556 A's Stars and #572 Giants Heroes - each grouping men from one club under a headline rather than giving one man his own card.
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.