1970 Topps #465 Bill Freehan
About this card
Cards #450-469 are the twenty All-Star cards, one player to a card, alternating the leagues - National League on the even numbers, American League on the odd - from #450 Willie McCovey to #469 Sam McDowell. Every one of the twenty also has a regular card in the set, and ten of them picture Hall of Famers.
About Bill Freehan
Freehan caught 120 games in 1969 for a Tigers club that finished second, 19 games behind Baltimore. He hit .262 with 16 home runs and 49 RBI, made the All-Star team and won a Gold Glove, and kept a clubhouse diary all season that was published in 1970 as Behind the Mask. His two 1970 cards are #335 in the third series and #465 in the All-Stars subset.
Bill Freehan was born November 29, 1941, in Detroit, Michigan. At the University of Michigan he caught and played end and linebacker in football, batting an all-time Big Ten record .585 as a sophomore in 1961 and winning All-America honors as a catcher before signing with his hometown Tigers. He debuted that September and spent his entire 15-year career (1961, 1963-1976) behind the plate for Detroit, making 11 All-Star teams and winning five straight Gold Gloves from 1965 through 1969. He held the major league record for a catcher's career fielding percentage (.9933) until 2002 and the career putouts mark (9,941) into the late 1980s. He was Detroit's catcher for the 1968 championship and finished runner-up in that season's AL MVP voting. Freehan later coached Michigan's baseball team from 1989 to 1995 and instructed Tigers catchers; he was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in 1982. He died August 19, 2021, at 79, of Alzheimer's disease.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 237 | 2 | 20 | 96 | 70 | 19 | 20 | 10 | 0 |
| SGC | 16 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-10-19. 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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Related cards
More Bill Freehan in this set: #335
Team card: #579 Detroit Tigers
More Detroit Tigers cards:
- #12 John Hiller
- #33 Don Wert
- #70 1969 American League Pitching Leaders
- #72 1969 American League Strikeout Leaders
- #95 Earl Wilson
- #98 Gates Brown
- #129 Jimmie Price
- #152 Ike Brown
- #177 Jim Northrup
- #207 Tigers 1970 Rookie Stars
- #269 Cesar Gutierrez
- #313 Mayo Smith
- #335 Bill Freehan
- #356 Fred Lasher
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1970 Topps #465 card?
It is card #465 of the 720-card 1970 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bill Freehan of the Detroit Tigers. Cards #450-469 are the twenty All-Star cards, one player to a card, alternating the leagues - National League on the even numbers, American League on the odd - from #450 Willie McCovey to #469 Sam McDowell. Every one of the twenty also has a regular card in the set, and ten of them picture Hall of Famers.
How many cards are in the 1970 Topps Baseball set?
720 cards, tracked as 726 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 720 with none skipped, issued in seven series - #1-132, #133-263, #264-372, #373-459, #460-546, #547-633 and the high numbers, #634-720; 6 cards, all of them checklists, carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, BaseballCardPedia, 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 2026-10-25.