1970 Topps #172 Braves Rookie Stars - Garry Hill / Ralph Garr
On this card: Garry Hill, Ralph Garr
About this card
This is one of the forty Rookie Stars cards, each showing two or three rookies from one club; #654 (National League) and #702 (American League) each mix three clubs. A Rookie Stars card is a rookie card for the players on it who had no earlier Topps flagship card - on #36, #74, #109, #154, #267, #317, #429, #573, #669 and #683 one of them had already appeared on one, and the rookie-card answer on each card names the players it counts for.
The story on this card
On June 12, 1969, Hill started at Atlanta Stadium opposite Dick Selma of the Chicago Cubs and took the loss after 2 1/3 innings. Al Spangler homered off him in the second inning, and the four earned runs he allowed left a 15.43 ERA. He struck out two and walked one. Topps listed him on #172 in the 1970 set, a Braves Rookies card shared with Ralph Garr; it is the rookie card of both men and came in the second series. Garry Hill, a right-handed pitcher from Garinger High School in Charlotte and the University of North Carolina, was a first-round pick of the Atlanta Braves in the 1967 June secondary draft and made one major league start, in 1969.
Garr's first Topps card is a shared rookie issue with Garry Hill, #172 in the second series, both pictured with the Atlanta Braves. His Atlanta time to that point was brief: 11 games in 1968 and 22 in 1969, when he hit .222. In 1970 he was optioned to Richmond at the end of May, and he hit an International League record .386 there. Ralph Garr, the Road Runner, was an outfielder from Monroe, Louisiana, who played 1,317 games between 1968 and 1980 for the Braves, White Sox and Angels and stole 172 bases.
Sources: Wikipedia (Garry Hill) · Wikipedia (Ralph Garr) · SABR BioProject · Baseball Almanac (Garry Hill) · Retrosheet · BaseballCardPedia
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 195 | 0 | 33 | 92 | 42 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
| SGC | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1970 Topps #172 card?
It is card #172 of the 720-card 1970 Topps Baseball set, picturing Garry Hill and Ralph Garr. This is one of the forty Rookie Stars cards, each showing two or three rookies from one club; #654 (National League) and #702 (American League) each mix three clubs. A Rookie Stars card is a rookie card for the players on it who had no earlier Topps flagship card - on #36, #74, #109, #154, #267, #317, #429, #573, #669 and #683 one of them had already appeared on one, and the rookie-card answer on each card names the players it counts for.
Is 1970 Topps #172 a rookie card?
Yes - #172 is a rookie card for every player pictured on it: Garry Hill and Ralph Garr.
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.