1970 Topps #624 Clyde King
About this card
This is one of the 24 manager cards, one for each club and every one a solo card, separate from the 24 team cards. #211 Ted Williams manages the Washington Senators and #556 Dave Bristol the Seattle Pilots; seven of the 24 managers are Hall of Famers.
About Clyde King
Clyde King's first Giants season brought a clash with Willie Mays over a misunderstanding about whether Mays was supposed to play in a game against the Astros. According to Mays, King threatened a fine, and general manager Chub Feeney had Mays apologize; Mays wrote that the two did not talk for the rest of 1969. The 1970 club started 19-23 and trailed Cincinnati by 12 games when he was fired on May 23. Card #624, in the sixth series, is King's solo manager card for the Giants.
Clyde King was a right-handed pitcher who spent seven seasons in the majors, almost all of it with the Brooklyn Dodgers, before finishing his major league career with the Cincinnati Reds in 1953. Signed out of the University of North Carolina in 1944, he debuted with Brooklyn that June and worked mostly out of the bullpen, posting his best season in 1951 with 14 wins and 121 1/3 innings pitched. He pitched for Brooklyn's 1947 and 1952 pennant winners, going 6-5 with a 2.77 ERA in 29 games in 1947. Arm and shoulder trouble set in late in 1951, and he finished with a 32-25 record and a 4.14 ERA in 200 games. After his playing days King managed in the minor leagues, served as a big-league pitching coach, and managed the San Francisco Giants, Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees. He later served the Yankees as general manager from 1984 to 1986 and as a special advisor.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 329 | 6 | 104 | 189 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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 #624 card?
It is card #624 of the 720-card 1970 Topps Baseball set, picturing Clyde King of the San Francisco Giants. This is one of the 24 manager cards, one for each club and every one a solo card, separate from the 24 team cards. #211 Ted Williams manages the Washington Senators and #556 Dave Bristol the Seattle Pilots; seven of the 24 managers are 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.