1973 Topps #349 Dick McAuliffe
About Dick McAuliffe
By 1973 McAuliffe was a platoon player at Detroit, sharing second base with Tony Taylor, and he played 106 games and hit .274 with 12 home runs. On July 15 he struck out in all three of his at-bats against Nolan Ryan, who threw the second no-hitter of his 1973 season against the Tigers that day. Topps #349, a third-series card, lists him with the Detroit Tigers.
Richard John McAuliffe was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on November 29, 1939, and grew up in the village of Unionville. Tigers scout Lew Cassell signed him out of Farmington High School after the Class of 1957 graduated, and four minor league seasons later he reached Detroit in September 1960. A left-handed hitter, he held his hands cocked high and opened his front foot toward the pitcher, stepping back toward a conventional stance only as the ball came in. He became the Tigers' regular shortstop in 1963 and held the job through 1966, moved to second base in 1967 so Ray Oyler could take over at short, and was still there when Detroit won the 1968 World Series. Over sixteen seasons - fourteen with the Tigers, two with Boston after an October 1973 trade for outfielder Ben Oglivie - he batted .247 with 197 home runs and 697 runs batted in. He scored 888 runs and drew 882 walks. He managed Boston's Double-A Bristol club in 1975 before a late recall ended his playing days that September. He later ran baseball schools and a coin-operated laundry repair business, and died in Farmington, Connecticut, on May 13, 2016.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · Baseball Almanac
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 174 | 2 | 55 | 100 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| SGC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 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 1973 Topps #349 card?
It is card #349 of the 660-card 1973 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dick McAuliffe of the Detroit Tigers.
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.