1969 Topps #462 Red Schoendienst
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 Red Schoendienst
Card #462 sits in the fifth series. Behind it is a second straight pennant: 97-65 in 1968 and a second straight National League Manager of the Year award. The World Series did not follow the script. St. Louis led Detroit three games to one and lost the next three, the second time Schoendienst had been on the wrong end of that collapse after the 1958 Braves. No Cardinals club of his would win another pennant.
Albert Fred "Red" Schoendienst, known as Red from boyhood for his curly red hair and freckles, was a switch-hitting second baseman who played 19 major league seasons from 1945 to 1963 for the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants and Milwaukee Braves. He made ten All-Star teams and had one of the surest gloves in the National League, retiring with a .289 average, 2,449 hits and 84 home runs. He led the league in steals as a 1945 rookie left fielder, hit a career-best .342 in 1953, won the 1946 World Series with St. Louis and the 1957 title with Milwaukee, then was diagnosed with tuberculosis after the 1958 season and lost part of a lung to surgery in February 1959. Released by the Braves after 1960, he came home to St. Louis and finished as a player-coach through 1963. He coached the 1964 champions, replaced Johnny Keane as manager for 1965, and led the Cardinals to back-to-back pennants in 1967 and 1968, winning the 1967 World Series over Boston and taking National League Manager of the Year honors both seasons. His twelve full seasons at the helm trail only Tony La Russa's in club history. He coached one more championship team in 1982 and reached the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989 through the Veterans Committee.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 331 | 0 | 12 | 121 | 95 | 46 | 25 | 32 | 0 |
| SGC | 25 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 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 #462 card?
It is card #462 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Red Schoendienst of the St. Louis Cardinals. 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.