1972 Topps #137 Dick Williams
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 Dick Williams
Owner Charlie Finley brought Williams back for 1972, and the A's won the American League West by 5 1/2 games over the White Sox. They led the league with 134 home runs and 43 saves, then beat Detroit 2-1 in the deciding fifth game of the playoff. With Reggie Jackson out injured, Gene Tenace's home runs and Williams's maneuvering beat favored Cincinnati in a seven-game World Series, the franchise's first championship since 1930, when it played in Philadelphia. Williams's 1972 manager card is #137, a second-series number.
Richard Hirschfeld Williams played parts of 13 major-league seasons between 1951 and 1964, a well-traveled utility man for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics and Boston Red Sox. He finished with a .260 average, 70 home runs and 331 RBI. In the field he appeared in 456 games in the outfield, 257 at third base and 188 at first. A shoulder separation suffered on a diving catch in August 1952 permanently weakened his throwing arm. Boston released him in October 1964. He took over the Red Sox' Triple-A Toronto Maple Leafs and won Governors' Cup titles in 1965 and 1966. He then inherited a big-league club that had finished ninth in the ten-team American League and drove it to the 1967 'Impossible Dream' pennant, a race settled on the final weekend, before a seven-game World Series loss to St. Louis. In 21 seasons as a manager he won back-to-back World Series with the Oakland Athletics in 1972 and 1973 and a National League pennant with the 1984 San Diego Padres, finishing with 1,571 wins. The Veterans Committee elected him to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in December 2007; he was inducted in 2008.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 296 | 9 | 60 | 161 | 34 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 0 |
| SGC | 14 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 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 #137 card?
It is card #137 of the 787-card 1972 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dick Williams of the Oakland Athletics. 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.
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.