1971 Topps #234 Jim Lyttle
About Jim Lyttle
Lyttle's 1971 season with the Yankees brought 49 games and a .198 average. He drove in seven runs on 17 hits, one of them a home run. He played the outfield in 29 of those games. He appears with the Yankees on card #234, from the second series.
Jim Lyttle was a left-handed-hitting outfielder who played eight major league seasons, 1969 to 1976, with the Yankees, White Sox, Expos and Dodgers, then became a star in Japan. A four-sport athlete at North Dearborn High School, where he set a school basketball record with 1,072 career points, he went to Florida State and earned first-team All-American baseball honors. The Yankees took him with the 10th pick of the 1966 draft. He debuted May 17, 1969, and hit .248 with nine home runs in 391 major league games. In 1977 he signed with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp and batted cleanup beside Koji Yamamoto and Sachio Kinugasa. He won four straight outfield Golden Gloves from 1978, was Japan Series MVP in the Carp's victory over Kintetsu, and in 1981 led the league in hits while batting .318 with 33 home runs and 100 RBIs. His six seasons with Hiroshima are the most by a non-Japanese player on the club. He finished with the Nankai Hawks in 1983.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 293 | 0 | 7 | 111 | 126 | 32 | 14 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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 1971 Topps #234 card?
It is card #234 of the 752-card 1971 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Lyttle of the New York Yankees.
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.