1971 Topps #517 Charlie Fox
About this card
Every club has its own manager card this year, separate from its team card, and every one pictures the manager alone. Nine of the 24 managers are Hall of Famers: Bob Lemon (#91), Gil Hodges (#183), Red Schoendienst (#239), Ted Williams (#380), Earl Weaver (#477), Walt Alston (#567), Leo Durocher (#609), Sparky Anderson (#688) and Dick Williams (#714).
About Charlie Fox
The Giants went 90-72 in 1971, winning 37 of their first 51 games and holding a 10 1/2-game lead on May 31. A nine-game margin on September 4 had shrunk to one game by the 25th, and the division came down to the last day, a 5-1 win over the Padres behind Juan Marichal. Pittsburgh took the NLCS in four games after San Francisco won the opener. Fox's #517, in the fourth series, is a manager card.
Charlie Fox managed the San Francisco Giants from May 1970 to June 1974 and led them to the 1971 National League West title, a year The Sporting News named him Manager of the Year. As a player he caught three games for the 1942 New York Giants and went 3-for-7, then spent three years in the Navy. The rest of his playing career was in Giants farm clubs, where he became a player-manager and helped develop a young Willie McCovey. He ran the Class C St. Cloud Rox for eight years, scouted from 1957 to 1963, managed Tacoma in 1964 and joined Herman Franks's San Francisco staff as a coach in 1965. His Giants teams went 348-327. Later he served as Montreal's emergency manager in 1976 and general manager through 1978, took over the Chicago Cubs for the last 39 games of 1983, and coached the 1989 Yankees under Dallas Green. He died in Stanford, California, at 82.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 305 | 0 | 14 | 166 | 103 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 19 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 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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Team card: #563 San Francisco Giants
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1971 Topps #517 card?
It is card #517 of the 752-card 1971 Topps Baseball set, picturing Charlie Fox of the San Francisco Giants. Every club has its own manager card this year, separate from its team card, and every one pictures the manager alone. Nine of the 24 managers are Hall of Famers: Bob Lemon (#91), Gil Hodges (#183), Red Schoendienst (#239), Ted Williams (#380), Earl Weaver (#477), Walt Alston (#567), Leo Durocher (#609), Sparky Anderson (#688) and Dick Williams (#714).
Is 1971 Topps #517 a rookie card?
Yes - #517 is a rookie card.
How many cards are in the 1971 Topps Baseball set?
752 cards, tracked as 761 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 752 with none skipped, issued in six print series (132/131/130/130/120/109 cards), the sixth (#644-752) the high numbers; seven cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately - the #42, #265 and #306 photo pairs and the #123, #206, #369 and #619 checklists, #369 and #619 in three printings each.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA (its price guide, master set registry and set article), 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.