1969 Topps #147 Leo Durocher
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 Leo Durocher
Durocher's card #147, issued in Topps' second series, reports his 1968 season with the Cubs, an 84-78 record and another third-place finish, his second straight winning club in Chicago. The year the card came out became one of his most remembered failures: the Cubs sat atop the newly created NL East from Opening Day through September 9 and held a nine-game cushion in mid-August, then lost 25 of their last 40 games and finished second, eight games behind the "Miracle Mets."
Leo Durocher spent nearly half a century in the major leagues, first as a slick-fielding, light-hitting shortstop and later as one of the game's most combative managers. He got a two-game trial with the 1925 Yankees, became a regular there in 1928 and played through 1945 with the Reds, Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers, winning World Series rings as a player in 1928 and 1934. Nicknamed "Leo the Lip" for his incessant yapping, he became Brooklyn's player-manager in 1939 and led the Dodgers to the 1941 pennant, then took over the New York Giants in 1948, winning the 1951 pennant on Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round the World" and sweeping the 1954 World Series. He returned to the dugout in 1966 to manage the Chicago Cubs into 1972, then closed his career with the Houston Astros, retiring with 2,008 wins, fifth all-time. The line "nice guys finish last," a newspaper condensation of a 1946 remark he later adopted, entered the language. Durocher died in 1991 and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a manager in 1994 by the Veterans Committee.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 543 | 8 | 131 | 277 | 71 | 30 | 12 | 13 | 1 |
| SGC | 48 | 0 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 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 #147 card?
It is card #147 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Leo Durocher of the Chicago Cubs. 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.