1970 Topps #313 Mayo Smith
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 Mayo Smith
Smith's 1970 card, #313 from series 3, is a Tigers manager card. Detroit stood third, seven games behind Baltimore, at the end of June of that season, then collapsed in the second half to finish 79-83 and fourth, 29 games back. Denny McLain was suspended for his association with bookmakers, and Mickey Lolich led the American League with 19 losses. The Tigers fired Smith on October 2, 1970, and replaced him with Billy Martin.
Mayo Smith spent nearly four decades in professional baseball as a player, manager and scout. An outfielder, he starred for years in the minors with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Buffalo Bisons, winning the International League batting title in 1944, before a brief major league career with the 1945 Philadelphia Athletics. He turned to managing in the Yankees farm system, then led the Philadelphia Phillies from 1955 to 1958 and the Cincinnati Redlegs in 1959. After years as a Yankees advance scout, he took over the Detroit Tigers in 1967 and guided them to a pennant and the 1968 World Series championship over the St. Louis Cardinals, earning The Sporting News Manager of the Year Award. He remained Detroit's manager through 1970. He was nicknamed Catfish in high school after Georgia football All-American Vernon Catfish Smith, and around the game he was known as America's Guest for the time he spent in ballpark press rooms.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 211 | 4 | 42 | 133 | 22 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 7 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 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 #313 card?
It is card #313 of the 720-card 1970 Topps Baseball set, picturing Mayo Smith of the Detroit Tigers. 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.