1973 Topps #190 Bob Gibson
About Bob Gibson
Gibson started 1972 at 0-5. On June 21 against San Diego he broke Jesse Haines's club record for most wins, and by the end of the year he had the ninth and last 200-strikeout season of his career. Topps issued #190, his 1973 Cardinals card, in the second series.
Bob Gibson pitched all seventeen of his major-league seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals, 1959 through 1975. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1935, he starred in basketball at Creighton and spent four months touring with the Harlem Globetrotters before the Cardinals bought his undivided attention. Teammates called him Hoot, a name borrowed from the silent-screen star Hoot Gibson and kept because he was one, a clubhouse wit with a gift for mimicry. He worked fast, leaned on a vicious slider and two fastballs, and would not fraternize with the men he had to beat. Gibson took the Cy Young Award in 1968 and again in 1970, and was voted the National League's Most Valuable Player in 1968, the year his 1.12 earned run average helped push baseball to lower the pitching mound. Across three World Series he went 7-2 with a 1.89 earned run average and was twice named the Series' Most Valuable Player, in 1964 and 1967. He took nine straight Gold Gloves from 1965 through 1973, threw a no-hitter in 1971, and retired with 251 wins and 3,117 strikeouts, at the time second only to Walter Johnson. Cooperstown elected him on the first ballot in 1981. He died in 2020.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,963 | 2 | 136 | 591 | 427 | 331 | 190 | 286 | 0 |
| SGC | 465 | 0 | 8 | 61 | 110 | 102 | 93 | 87 | 4 |
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 1973 Topps #190 card?
It is card #190 of the 660-card 1973 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bob Gibson of the St. Louis Cardinals.
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.
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