1969 Topps #319 Ken McMullen
About Ken McMullen
McMullen's lone 1969 card, #319, is a third-series issue that repeats the number Topps had given him back in 1965. It reports his 1968 season: a .248 average, 20 home runs - his best home run total as a Senator - and 62 RBIs across 151 games, 145 of them at third base, for a Washington club that went 65-96 and finished tenth and last in the American League.
Kenneth Lee McMullen signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers out of Oxnard High School in California and reached the majors as a twenty-year-old September call-up in 1962, after two minor league seasons batting .285 with 42 home runs and 177 RBIs. He played parts of three seasons with Los Angeles - his first big league home run was a grand slam off St. Louis right-hander Ernie Broglio on the Fourth of July, 1963 - before a poor 1964 sent him back to the minors and then, that December, to the Washington Senators in a seven-player deal that also carried Frank Howard, Phil Ortega, Pete Richert and Dick Nen east for Claude Osteen and John Kennedy. McMullen took over Washington's third base job under manager Gil Hodges and held it through the rest of the decade, tying one American League fielding record at the position and setting another, and posting career highs of a .272 average and 87 runs batted in during 1969. Washington traded him to the California Angels in 1970; he returned to the Dodgers from 1973 through 1975, then finished with Oakland in 1976 and Milwaukee in 1977, ending on a pinch-hit home run in his last at-bat. He retired with 1,273 hits, 156 home runs and 606 RBIs across sixteen seasons, nearly all at third base.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 239 | 6 | 60 | 123 | 32 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 8 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 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 #319 card?
It is card #319 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ken McMullen of the Washington Senators.
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.