1969 Topps #146 Jim Perry
About Jim Perry
Card #146 arrives just as everything broke open. Billy Martin, a Cleveland teammate of Perry's back in 1959, took over as manager, put him in the rotation and left him there, and Perry went 20-6 with a 2.82 ERA. On July 20 he won twice in one day, first finishing a 16-inning game against Seattle that had been suspended the day before, doubling and scoring the go-ahead run himself, then starting the regularly scheduled game and blanking the Pilots 4-0. Win number 20 came against Seattle on September 20, the day he also recorded his 1,000th career strikeout. He started Game One of the first American League Championship Series, allowed three runs over eight innings and took a no-decision as Baltimore swept the Twins.
James Evan Perry Jr., born October 30, 1935 in Williamston, North Carolina, pitched 17 major-league seasons from 1959 to 1975 for the Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland Athletics. Signed off the Campbell College campus by Cleveland scout Jim Gruzdis, he went 12-10 as a rookie in 1959 and finished second to Bob Allison in the Rookie of the Year voting, then tied Baltimore's Chuck Estrada for the American League lead with 18 wins in 1960. Traded to Minnesota in May 1963 for left-hander Jack Kralick, Perry spent years shuttling between the rotation and the bullpen until manager Billy Martin handed him a full-time starting job in 1969; he answered with a 20-6 season as the Twins took the first American League West title. He was better still in 1970, leading the league with 24 wins and winning the American League Cy Young Award. A three-time All-Star, he retired with 215 wins, 1,576 strikeouts and a 3.45 ERA. He and younger brother Gaylord, a Hall of Famer, remain the only brothers to each win a Cy Young Award, and Jim was inducted into the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame in 2011.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 231 | 3 | 34 | 105 | 58 | 14 | 6 | 11 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 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 #146 card?
It is card #146 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Perry of the Minnesota Twins.
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.