1972 Topps #129 Charlie Fox
About this card
Every club has a manager card of its own this year, separate from the 24 team cards, and every one of the 24 manager cards pictures the manager alone. Nine of them are Hall of Famers, and #510 Ted Williams manages the Texas Rangers in their first season after the move from Washington.
About Charlie Fox
After the division title, San Francisco slid to 69-86 and fifth place in the National League West in 1972, as a string of poor trades took the club out of contention. Fox's manager card, #129, comes from the first series and carries the Giants.
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 | 250 | 13 | 56 | 144 | 28 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 7 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 1972 Topps #129 card?
It is card #129 of the 787-card 1972 Topps Baseball set, picturing Charlie Fox of the San Francisco Giants. Every club has a manager card of its own this year, separate from the 24 team cards, and every one of the 24 manager cards pictures the manager alone. Nine of them are Hall of Famers, and #510 Ted Williams manages the Texas Rangers in their first season after the move from Washington.
How many cards are in the 1972 Topps Baseball set?
787 cards, tracked as 794 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 787 with none skipped, in six print series (#1-132, #133-263, #264-394, #395-525, #526-656 and #657-787, the high numbers); 7 cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately - four Chicago Cubs cards with yellow or green under the "C" and "S" of the team name, the #251 and #478 checklists with smaller or larger print on the front, and the #604 checklist with its copyright line aligned right or left.
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