1970 Topps #461 Carl Yastrzemski
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 Carl Yastrzemski
Yastrzemski hit 40 home runs for the first of two straight years in 1969, driving in 111 runs and batting .255 as Boston finished third. The 1970 Topps set has him twice, at #10 in series 1 and at #461 in the All-Stars subset, series 5. The season those cards lead into brought a .329 average, 23 stolen bases, and four hits in the All-Star Game that earned him MVP honors.
Carl Yastrzemski was born August 22, 1939, in Southampton, New York, and grew up on his father's Long Island potato farm before signing with the Boston Red Sox in 1958 after his freshman year at Notre Dame. He spent his entire 23-year career (1961-1983) with that one club, taking over left field from the retiring Ted Williams as a 21-year-old rookie and shifting later to first base and designated hitter. Nicknamed Yaz, he won three American League batting titles (1963, 1967, 1968), seven Gold Gloves and eighteen All-Star selections. His signature season came in 1967, when he took the Triple Crown by leading the league in average, home runs and runs batted in. He was voted American League Most Valuable Player, one vote short of unanimous, as the Impossible Dream Red Sox won their first pennant since 1946. He finished with 3,419 hits and 452 home runs, the first American League player to reach both 3,000 hits and 400 homers, and he is still the Red Sox all-time leader in games, hits, runs, runs batted in, doubles and total bases. Yastrzemski was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989, his first year of eligibility, with 94.6 percent of the vote. His grandson Mike Yastrzemski later reached the majors as an outfielder.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 605 | 0 | 18 | 114 | 132 | 128 | 86 | 124 | 3 |
| SGC | 130 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 16 | 18 | 23 | 64 | 2 |
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 Carl Yastrzemski in this set: #10
Team card: #563 Boston Red Sox
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- #39 Mike Nagy
- #62 1969 American League Batting Leaders
- #78 Joe Lahoud
- #104 Gerry Moses
- #116 Sparky Lyle
- #144 Ray Culp
- #163 Syd O'Brien
- #191 Vicente Romo
- #215 Reggie Smith
- #237 Russ Gibson
- #251 Dick Schofield
- #279 Bill Lee
- #317 Red Sox 1970 Rookie Stars
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1970 Topps #461 card?
It is card #461 of the 720-card 1970 Topps Baseball set, picturing Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox. 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.