1969 Topps #295 Tony Perez
About Tony Perez
Card #295 is a third-series card, and the season it reports is 1968: 160 games, all of them at third base, a .282 average, 18 home runs and 92 runs batted in, enough for a second straight All-Star selection. The year it was issued turned out better still, .294 with 37 home runs and 122 runs batted in, the surge that pointed Cincinnati toward the 1970 pennant. An easy card to find.
Tony Perez, born Atanasio Perez Rigal in 1942 in Cuba's Camaguey province, grew up working beside his father in a sugar mill and playing shortstop for the factory team. Cincinnati signed him in 1960 for no bonus beyond a plane ticket and a $2.50 exit visa. Erratic throwing pushed him off third base in the minors, and he was a first baseman when he won the Pacific Coast League's Most Valuable Player award at Triple-A San Diego in 1964. Moved back to third base in 1967 to make room for Lee May, he became the run producer at the center of the Big Red Machine, driving in 90 or more runs in eleven straight seasons and averaging better than 100 a year from 1970 through 1976. Teammates called him Big Dog. A seven-time All-Star, he hit the two-run homer off Bill Lee that began Cincinnati's comeback in Game Seven of the 1975 World Series, and won a second title in 1976. He moved on to Montreal, Boston and Philadelphia before closing his career with three more Cincinnati seasons through 1986: 2,732 hits, 379 home runs, 1,652 runs batted in. He later managed the Reds and the Marlins, and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000.
Sources: SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,216 | 9 | 87 | 450 | 281 | 143 | 112 | 134 | 0 |
| SGC | 187 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 50 | 48 | 35 | 24 | 3 |
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 #295 card?
It is card #295 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Tony Perez of the Cincinnati Reds.
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.