1971 Topps #31 Eddie Kasko
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 Eddie Kasko
Kasko's second season in the Boston dugout ended in another third-place finish, at 85-77 and 18 games behind the Baltimore Orioles. The Red Sox were in the pennant race until August 6, when they went into a 4-16 stretch, and some headlines dubbed the club dissension-ripped amid a controversy over Rico Petrocelli's outspokenness. Sonny Siebert led the pitchers with 16 wins. Kasko's manager card is #31, a first-series issue, with the Red Sox.
Eddie Kasko was a right-handed-hitting shortstop and third baseman who played ten major league seasons, from 1957 through 1966, with the St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Houston Colt .45s and Astros, and Boston Red Sox. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, and raised in Linden, he graduated from Linden High School in 1949 and debuted with the Cardinals on April 18, 1957. A six-player trade sent him to Cincinnati after the 1958 season. Across five years there he moved between third base and shortstop, leading National League third basemen in fielding percentage in 1960. He led NL shortstops in that category in 1964 with Houston. He made the 1961 National League All-Star team and started all five games at shortstop in that year's World Series against the New York Yankees, batting .318. In 1,077 games he hit .264 with 935 hits. Those included 146 doubles and 22 home runs, and he drove in 261 runs. He retired after the 1966 season, managed the Red Sox from 1970 through 1973, and stayed with the club two more decades as a scout, scouting director and front-office executive. Boston elected him to the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2010; he died in 2020 at 88.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 348 | 0 | 9 | 166 | 123 | 35 | 12 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 13 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 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 1971 Topps #31 card?
It is card #31 of the 752-card 1971 Topps Baseball set, picturing Eddie Kasko of the Boston Red Sox. 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).
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.