1969 Topps #567 Pirates Rookie Stars - Elvio Jimenez / Jim Shellenback
On this card: Elvio Jimenez, Jim Shellenback
Not a rookie card for either player.
About this card
This is one of the 52 Rookie Stars cards in the 1969 Topps set, each carrying two or three young players under a club or league title. A Rookie Stars card is a rookie card only for the players pictured who had no earlier Topps flagship card - the rookie-card answer on each card names them.
The story on this card
By 1969 Jimenez had moved into the Pittsburgh organization, playing outfield for the Columbus Jets in the International League after his lone Yankees cup of coffee five years earlier. This Topps Rookie Stars card pairs him with pitcher Jim Shellenback under the Pirates banner, and it exists in two printing states distinguished by the black outline around the card's title. Dominican outfielder who batted .333 in his only major-league game for the 1964 Yankees, then spent years starring in Triple-A before becoming a scout back home in the Dominican Republic.
Shellenback began 1969 with the Pirates, making eight relief appearances, before Pittsburgh traded him to Washington on May 17 for pitcher Frank Kreutzer. Under rookie manager Ted Williams he found more work as a reliever and won his first American League game on June 12 against Oakland, finishing 4-7. Two printed states exist, told apart by a black outline on the Rookie Stars title, and it is shared with Elvio Jimenez. Left-handed pitcher out of Riverside, California, and nephew of career minor-league great Frank Shellenback; pitched parts of nine big-league seasons for four clubs from 1966 to 1977.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject (Elvio Jimenez) · SABR BioProject (Jim Shellenback)
Print variations
Two states of #567 are tracked individually: 567a - Black Outline On Title and 567b - No Black Outline On Title. The difference is on the front of the card (print flaw).
States catalogued by the PSA master set registry and the Trading Card Database; each is tracked here individually.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 567a - Black Outline On Title | |||||||||
| PSA | 286 | 5 | 72 | 156 | 24 | 20 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| 567b - No Black Outline On Title | |||||||||
| PSA | 20 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| SGC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Not designated by SGC | |||||||||
| SGC | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 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. Where a grader registers a variation separately its population is listed under that variation; SGC slabs whose label names no variation are listed as not designated, while PSA slabs whose label names no variation are counted under 567a - Black Outline On Title.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1969 Topps #567 card?
It is card #567 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Elvio Jimenez and Jim Shellenback. This is one of the 52 Rookie Stars cards in the 1969 Topps set, each carrying two or three young players under a club or league title. A Rookie Stars card is a rookie card only for the players pictured who had no earlier Topps flagship card - the rookie-card answer on each card names them.
Is #567 a rookie card?
No. Neither Elvio Jimenez nor Jim Shellenback counts #567 as a rookie card. The card does come in two states: with and without the black outline on the "1969 Rookie Stars" title, the no-outline state being decisively the scarce one.
Does 1969 Topps #567 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked individually: 567a - Black Outline On Title (The Rookie Stars title carries a black outline - the common state) and 567b - No Black Outline On Title (No black outline on the title - decisively the scarce state). Owning any one of them fills the #567 slot; the master set counts each state.
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.