1970 Topps #340 Tony Conigliaro
About Tony Conigliaro
Tony Conigliaro's 1970 Topps card, #340, came out in the third series and lists him with Boston. His brother Billy appears on #317 among the Red Sox Rookies. Tony played 146 games that season, hit .266 with 89 runs scored, and later said he batted most of it with his left eye almost closed. He took the Hutch Award for 1970.
Tony Conigliaro was a Revere, Massachusetts kid who signed with the Red Sox out of high school and made the big club at nineteen. On the first pitch of his first Fenway Park at-bat, in the 1964 home opener, he hit a home run. He led the American League with 32 homers in 1965, the youngest home run champion in AL history, and when he reached 100 career home runs in July 1967 he was the youngest American Leaguer ever to get there. On August 18, 1967, during Boston's pennant-winning Impossible Dream season, a Jack Hamilton fastball struck him in the face, fracturing his left cheekbone and severely damaging his left retina. He missed the rest of that season and all of 1968, then came back in 1969 for 20 home runs and Comeback Player of the Year honors, and followed that with career highs of 36 homers and 116 RBI in 1970. The Red Sox traded him to the California Angels that October, and fading vision held him to .222 in 74 games in 1971. A 21-game return to Boston in 1975 closed his playing career. A heart attack and stroke in 1982 left him severely impaired until his death in 1990 at forty-five.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 251 | 1 | 33 | 98 | 49 | 33 | 16 | 19 | 2 |
| SGC | 24 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1970 Topps #340 card?
It is card #340 of the 720-card 1970 Topps Baseball set, picturing Tony Conigliaro of the Boston Red Sox.
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.