1969 Topps #165 World Series Game 4 - Brock's Lead-Off HR Starts Cards' Romp
Pictures a Hall of Famer: Lou Brock.
About this card
Cards #162-169 tell the 1968 World Series game by game - the Tigers over the Cardinals in seven, from Bob Gibson's 17-strikeout Game 1 to Mickey Lolich outdueling Gibson in Game 7 - and close with #169, the Tigers celebrating their victory.
The story on this card
Card 165 in Topps' 1969 World Series subset (print series 2) recalls Game 4 of the 1968 Fall Classic, when Lou Brock opened the scoring by leading off the game with a home run off Denny McLain. Mike Shannon drove in a run later in the first inning, and the Cardinals piled on two more in the third on Tim McCarver's triple and Shannon's double, chasing McLain from the mound after a rain delay. Bob Gibson backed his own cause with a fourth-inning homer, and St. Louis kept pouring it on: Brock tripled and scored, then in the eighth he fell a single short of the cycle with a bases-clearing double as the Cardinals routed Detroit to take a three-games-to-one Series lead. The front pictures Brock, the Cardinals' left fielder and leadoff man.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 632 | 9 | 81 | 276 | 128 | 57 | 37 | 43 | 1 |
| SGC | 87 | 0 | 6 | 29 | 26 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 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 #165 card?
It is card #165 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, World Series Game #4 - Brock's Lead-Off HR Starts Cards' Romp. Cards #162-169 tell the 1968 World Series game by game - the Tigers over the Cardinals in seven, from Bob Gibson's 17-strikeout Game 1 to Mickey Lolich outdueling Gibson in Game 7 - and close with #169, the Tigers celebrating their victory.
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.