1969 Topps #53 Sonny Jackson
About Sonny Jackson
The 1969 Topps card, #53, sits in the first print series. The Braves won the National League West that year and Jackson was their shortstop for 97 of the 98 games he played, batting .239 with 41 runs and 27 RBI, the most he drove in during any of his seven Atlanta seasons. The Braves then met the New York Mets in the NLCS and lost all three games, as close as Jackson ever came to a World Series.
Roland Thomas Jackson, known as Sonny Jackson, was a left-handed hitting, right-handed throwing shortstop who spent twelve major league seasons with Houston and Atlanta between 1963 and 1974. Born July 9, 1944, in Washington, D.C., and listed at 5-foot-9 and 150 pounds, he debuted for the Houston Colt .45's on September 27, 1963 and got only scattered at-bats over the next two seasons. Because those trials were short he still qualified as a rookie in 1966, and he made it count: a .292 average, a National League-best 160 singles and 27 sacrifice hits, and 49 stolen bases that tied the major league rookie record Rollie Zeider set in 1910. Houston kept him at shortstop through 1967, and he spent the rest of his career with the Atlanta Braves. He was the Braves shortstop when Atlanta won the 1969 National League West, though the New York Mets swept the three-game NLCS, and he later moved to the outfield for a full 1971 season before his last game on July 9, 1974. Over 936 games he hit .251 with 767 hits, 7 home runs, 162 RBI and 126 stolen bases. He stayed in the game afterward as a minor league coach and manager in the Braves and San Francisco Giants organizations and as a coach with the Giants.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 333 | 6 | 86 | 170 | 41 | 14 | 11 | 4 | 1 |
| SGC | 16 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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 #53 card?
It is card #53 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Sonny Jackson of the Atlanta Braves.
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.