1969 Topps #664 Ron Hunt
About Ron Hunt
Card #664 is a series-7 high number, and its back belongs to the Year of the Pitcher: .250 for the 1968 Giants with 79 runs, 78 walks against only 41 strikeouts in 650 plate appearances, and a league-leading 25 hit by pitches. Add the walks to the plunkings and Hunt reached base 103 times that season without ever putting a ball in play. He hit two home runs all year. The second, off Bob Gibson in the first inning on September 17, was the only run scored in Gaylord Perry's no-hitter.
Ron Hunt signed with the Milwaukee Braves as an amateur free agent in 1959 and was sold to the New York Mets on October 11, 1962. A right-handed-hitting second baseman born in St. Louis, he won the Mets' second-base job as a rookie and finished runner-up to Pete Rose for the 1963 National League Rookie of the Year award. He was an All-Star in 1964 and 1966 and, in 1964, the first Met ever elected to start an All-Star Game. Traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers after the 1966 season and to the San Francisco Giants in February 1968, he made his living crowding the plate and refusing to give ground on inside pitches, leading the National League in hit by pitches for seven straight seasons from 1968 through 1974 and setting the modern single-season record with 50 for Montreal in 1971. Over twelve seasons he batted .273 with 1,429 hits, and his 243 career hit by pitches stood as a post-dead-ball-era record when he retired. "Some folks give their bodies to science," he said. "I gave mine to baseball." He belongs to the Montreal Expos Hall of Fame, founded the Ron Hunt Eagles Baseball Association for college-bound players in 1987, and died on July 15, 2026, at age 85.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 303 | 3 | 33 | 152 | 76 | 18 | 14 | 7 | 0 |
| SGC | 34 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 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 #664 card?
It is card #664 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ron Hunt of the San Francisco Giants.
Why does the set end at #664?
Every number from 1 to 664 was printed and none was skipped, and at 664 cards this is the largest Topps set of the 1960s and the largest Topps had made to that point. #664 Ron Hunt is the last card.
Why is #664 harder to find?
It is a high number card from the seventh and last print series, #589-664 - the scarce end of the set.
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.