1969 Topps #99 Twins Rookie Stars - Danny Morris / Graig Nettles
On this card: Danny Morris, Graig Nettles
About this card
This is one of the 52 Rookie Stars cards in the 1969 Topps set, each carrying two or three young players under a club or league title. A Rookie Stars card is a rookie card only for the players pictured who had no earlier Topps flagship card - the rookie-card answer on each card names them.
The story on this card
Card #99 is the Minnesota Twins entry in the 1969 Rookie Stars subset, pairing Morris with Graig Nettles. It comes from the first series and is his rookie card. Our checklist tracks two states: 99a with a black loop above 'Twins' and 99b with no black loop. Morris had just debuted after a 16-15 season at Triple-A Denver. In 1969 he worked three games for Minnesota, going 0-1 with a 5.06 ERA in 5.1 innings; in his lone start he lost to the California Angels, with Rick Reichardt hitting a two-run homer off him. His final big league game came on June 29, 1969. Danny Morris was a hard-throwing Minnesota Twins prospect who twice won 16 games in the minors, pitched six games for the Twins in 1968 and 1969, and saw an arm injury end his career.
This Rookie Stars card, #99 in the 1969 Topps first print series, shares its front with Danny Morris, his Twins partner on the card. It is Nettles's rookie card. It caught him in his first full major-league season: in 1969 he batted .222 with 7 home runs and 26 RBI in 96 games, mostly in the outfield, for a Twins club that Baltimore swept in the ALCS. That December, Minnesota traded him to Cleveland. The card comes in two collectible states, one with a black loop printed above the word Twins and one without. A six-time All-Star third baseman and two-time Gold Glover whose glove work and 390 career home runs helped carry four Yankees pennant winners, including the 1977 and 1978 World Series champions.
Sources: Wikipedia (Danny Morris) · Wikipedia (Graig Nettles)
Print variations
Two states of #99 are tracked individually: 99a - Black Loop Above "Twins" and 99b - No Black Loop. The difference is on the front of the card (print flaw).
States catalogued by the PSA master set registry and the Trading Card Database; each is tracked here individually.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99a - Black Loop Above "Twins" | |||||||||
| PSA | 821 | 3 | 41 | 199 | 214 | 156 | 105 | 98 | 5 |
| SGC | 101 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 17 | 18 | 30 | 22 | 3 |
| 99b - No Black Loop | |||||||||
| PSA | 562 | 0 | 16 | 91 | 97 | 126 | 78 | 153 | 1 |
| SGC | 61 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 24 | 16 | 0 |
| Not designated by SGC | |||||||||
| SGC | 79 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 17 | 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. Where a grader registers a variation separately its population is listed under that variation; SGC slabs whose label names no variation are listed as not designated, while PSA slabs whose label names no variation are counted under 99a - Black Loop Above "Twins". SGC also lists 2 slabs on this number under labels that cannot be matched to one variation (“(Loop Error)” 1; “(Loop Var.)” 1); they are not counted in any line above.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1969 Topps #99 card?
It is card #99 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Danny Morris and Graig Nettles. This is one of the 52 Rookie Stars cards in the 1969 Topps set, each carrying two or three young players under a club or league title. A Rookie Stars card is a rookie card only for the players pictured who had no earlier Topps flagship card - the rookie-card answer on each card names them.
Which state of #99 is the Graig Nettles rookie card?
Both. #99 Twins Rookie Stars is Nettles's rookie card whether or not the black loop appears above "Twins"; the no-loop state is the scarcer of the two.
Does 1969 Topps #99 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked individually: 99a - Black Loop Above "Twins" (A black loop prints above "Twins" on the front - the common state. The Graig Nettles rookie card either way) and 99b - No Black Loop (No black loop above "Twins" - the scarcer state and the premium side. The Graig Nettles rookie card either way). Owning any one of them fills the #99 slot; the master set counts each state.
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.