1969 Topps #519 Yankees Rookie Stars - Gerry Kenney / Len Boehmer
On this card: Gerry Kenney, Len Boehmer
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 #519, from Topps' sixth print series, is a Rookie Stars issue shared with Len Boehmer, and it is Kenney's rookie card. It captures him entering his first full season, having missed nearly all of 1968 to military service. He opened 1969 as the Yankees' starting center fielder, a move the press framed as filling the void left by Mickey Mantle's retirement that spring, before a slow start at the plate saw him shifted to third base by mid-season. A former Yankees infielder and outfielder whose steady glove and speed briefly had him pegged, in 1969, as center field's answer to the retiring Mickey Mantle.
Boehmer made the Yankees' roster for the full 1969 season after batting .268 at Triple-A Syracuse the year before, appearing in 45 games and playing 21 of them at first base and eight more at third base. His first major league hit came in the team's 70th game, a 10th-inning single off Garry Roggenburk at Fenway Park that drove in the go-ahead run against Boston. He finished the year hitting .176 in 108 at bats with four doubles among his 19 hits. His 1969 Topps #519 card is a recognised rookie card, a Yankees Rookie Stars issue from the set's sixth print series shared with fellow infielder Gerry Kenney; it is a regular-series card. A Flint Hill, Missouri native who signed with Cincinnati out of St. Louis University, worked seven years through the Reds' farm system, then played infield for the Yankees.
Sources: Wikipedia (Jerry Kenney) · Wikipedia (Len Boehmer) · SABR BioProject
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 546 | 7 | 123 | 285 | 83 | 22 | 14 | 7 | 5 |
| SGC | 15 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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 #519 card?
It is card #519 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Gerry Kenney and Len Boehmer. 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.
Is 1969 Topps #519 a rookie card?
Yes - #519 is a rookie card for every player pictured on it: Gerry Kenney and Len Boehmer.
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.