1969 Topps #4 National League 1968 RBI Leaders - Willie McCovey / Ron Santo / Billy Williams
On this card: Willie McCovey, Ron Santo, Billy Williams
About this card
Cards #1-12 are the League Leaders subset: six categories from the 1968 season - batting average, RBI, home runs, ERA, pitching (wins) and strikeouts - with the American League card first and the National League card second in each pair, and the top three men on each card (#9 names four, after a tie for third in American League wins).
The story on this card
Card 4 in the 1969 Topps set is a League Leaders board, recapping the National League RBI race of 1968. Willie McCovey topped the league that year, driving in 105 runs for the San Francisco Giants while playing first base. Ron Santo, the Chicago Cubs third baseman, and teammate Billy Williams, the Cubs left fielder, tied for the runner-up spot behind him, each driving in 98 runs. The card groups the three sluggers together with their team affiliations noted, the National League's top run producers from the 1968 season. It belongs to the first print series of the 1969 set.
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. Ron Santo played third base for the Chicago Cubs through the 1960s, a nine-time All-Star and five-time Gold Glove winner who hid his diabetes for years, later called Cubs games on the radio, and reached the Hall of Fame in 2012. Billy Williams was the quiet, metronomic third star of the Ernie Banks and Ron Santo Cubs, a sweet-swinging left fielder who won a batting title, a Rookie of the Year award, and once played 1,117 games in a row.
Sources: Wikipedia (Willie McCovey) · Wikipedia (Ron Santo) · Wikipedia (Billy Williams) · Wikipedia (Billy Williams) · SABR BioProject (Willie Mccovey) · SABR BioProject (Ron Santo) · SABR BioProject (Ce0e08ff) · Baseball Almanac (Willie McCovey) · Baseball Almanac (Ron Santo) · Baseball Almanac (Billy Williams) · Retrosheet · Internet Archive
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,193 | 5 | 177 | 449 | 219 | 129 | 100 | 113 | 1 |
| SGC | 157 | 0 | 8 | 34 | 40 | 18 | 30 | 27 | 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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- #6 National League 1968 Home Run Leaders
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- #12 National League 1968 Strikeout Leaders
- #20 Ernie Banks
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1969 Topps #4 card?
It is card #4 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Willie McCovey, Ron Santo and Billy Williams. Cards #1-12 are the League Leaders subset: six categories from the 1968 season - batting average, RBI, home runs, ERA, pitching (wins) and strikeouts - with the American League card first and the National League card second in each pair, and the top three men on each card (#9 names four, after a tie for third in American League wins).
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.