1969 Topps #75 Luis Aparicio
About Luis Aparicio
Aparicio's 1969 card, #75 in the first series, reports 1968, his first season back in Chicago: a .264 average, 164 hits and 17 stolen bases at age 34. The legs had slowed, but the range had not: he led the American League in range factor at shortstop that year and again in 1969, and he was still the everyday shortstop for the club where his career, and the Go-Go era, had begun a dozen years earlier.
Luis Ernesto Aparicio Montiel was born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, the son of a celebrated Venezuelan shortstop, and was signed by White Sox general manager Frank Lane on the recommendation of countryman Chico Carrasquel. Two seasons in the minor leagues followed, and in 1956 he took over Carrasquel's shortstop job in Chicago and won the American League Rookie of the Year, the first Latin American player so honored, after leading the league with 21 stolen bases. With second baseman Nellie Fox he formed one of the game's great double-play combinations, sparking the 1959 Go-Go White Sox to their first pennant in 40 years while finishing second to Fox in the MVP vote. He led the American League in stolen bases in each of his first nine seasons, two more in a row than any other player in either league has managed, and won nine Gold Gloves at shortstop. Traded to Baltimore before the 1963 season, he helped the Orioles win the 1966 World Series before returning to Chicago and finishing with the Boston Red Sox. Picked for ten All-Star teams, he retired in 1973 with 2,677 hits, 506 stolen bases and major-league fielding records for a shortstop. In 1984, on his sixth turn on the ballot, he became the first Venezuelan elected to the Hall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 924 | 17 | 190 | 399 | 140 | 78 | 45 | 55 | 0 |
| SGC | 130 | 3 | 20 | 37 | 29 | 14 | 11 | 15 | 1 |
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 #75 card?
It is card #75 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Luis Aparicio of the Chicago White Sox.
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.