1969 Topps #566 Ron Hansen
About Ron Hansen
Card #566 sits in the sixth series and is the only Topps card to cover the season Hansen is remembered for. He hit .185 in 86 games for Washington and .230 in 40 more after Chicago took him back. In between, on July 30, 1968, he caught a first-inning line drive off Cleveland's Joe Azcue, stepped on second to double off Dave Nelson and tagged Russ Snyder between the bases for an unassisted triple play, the first in the majors in 41 years; the glove and ball went to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. On August 2 Washington traded him back to the White Sox for Tim Cullen, the same man he had been traded for in February, a first in baseball history, and he finished the year at third base behind Luis Aparicio.
Ronald Lavern Hansen was born April 5, 1938, in Oxford, Nebraska, and moved with his family to Albany, California, at age two. He turned down a University of California scholarship and signed with the Baltimore Orioles on April 7, 1956; a ruptured disc and the spinal surgery that followed cost him the entire 1957 season. The 6-foot-3 shortstop debuted with Baltimore on April 15, 1958, and broke out in 1960 with a .255 average, 22 home runs and 86 RBIs, a league-leading 325 putouts at shortstop, the American League Rookie of the Year award and a start in both of that summer's All-Star Games. Traded to the Chicago White Sox in January 1963 in the deal that sent Luis Aparicio to Baltimore, he set a major league record by handling 28 chances in an August 1965 doubleheader. Dealt to the Washington Senators in February 1968, he turned a line drive into the majors' first unassisted triple play in 41 years that July, then closed a 15-year career with the White Sox, New York Yankees and Kansas City Royals, finishing at .234 with 106 home runs and 501 RBIs. He later coached in the majors, managed in the minors and scouted until he retired in 2010.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 263 | 2 | 44 | 141 | 52 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 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.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1969 Topps #566 card?
It is card #566 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ron Hansen 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.