1973 Topps #61 1972 Batting Leaders - Billy Williams / Rod Carew
On this card: Billy Williams, Rod Carew
About this card
Cards #61-68 are the League Leaders subset: the 1972 leaders in batting, home runs, runs batted in, stolen bases, earned run average, victories and strikeouts, and the leading firemen (#68), each card naming the National League leader first.
The story on this card
The batting-average board pairs the 1972 batting champions of each league. Billy Williams of the Chicago Cubs won the National League title at .333, with 37 home runs and 122 RBI. He led the majors in slugging at .606. Rod Carew of the Minnesota Twins took the American League at .318 and hit no home runs all year, the first batting champion without one since Zack Wheat in 1918. Williams had gone 8-for-8 in a July 11 doubleheader against Houston at Wrigley Field. The card is #61 in the League Leaders subset (#61-#68) of 1973 Topps, from print series 1, with Williams shown as a Cub and Carew as a Twin.
Billy Williams, the sweet-swinging left fielder who played beside Ernie Banks and Ron Santo on the Cubs, won a batting title and a Rookie of the Year award and once played 1,117 games in a row. Rod Carew batted .328 over 19 seasons with the Twins and Angels. The second baseman and first baseman won seven American League batting titles, made 18 All-Star teams and entered the Hall of Fame in 1991.
Sources: Wikipedia (Rod Carew) · Wikipedia (Billy Williams) · SABR BioProject (Billy Williams 2) · SABR BioProject (Rod Carew) · Baseball Almanac (Billy Williams) · BaseballCardPedia
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 479 | 3 | 89 | 246 | 63 | 36 | 18 | 23 | 1 |
| SGC | 58 | 0 | 4 | 16 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 3 |
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 cards: #464 Chicago Cubs, #654 Minnesota Twins
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1973 Topps #61 card?
It is card #61 of the 660-card 1973 Topps Baseball set, picturing Billy Williams and Rod Carew. Cards #61-68 are the League Leaders subset: the 1972 leaders in batting, home runs, runs batted in, stolen bases, earned run average, victories and strikeouts, and the leading firemen (#68), each card naming the National League leader first.
How many cards are in the 1973 Topps Baseball set?
660 cards, tracked as 679 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 660 with none skipped, in five series of 132 - #1-132, #133-264, #265-396, #397-528 and the high numbers, #529-660, printed in lower quantities; 19 cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately - fifteen Field Leaders cards, the #20 Stan Bahnsen, #31 Buddy Bell and #504 Earl Williams border-gap pairs and the two #280 Al Kaline printings.
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.