1973 Topps #441 Gail Hopkins
About Gail Hopkins
On May 15, 1973, Hopkins pinch-hit in the eighth inning of Nolan Ryan's first no-hitter and lofted a bloop that shortstop Rudy Meoli caught on the run. Ryan later wrote that it was the closest he came to losing it. Hopkins played 74 games and hit .246 with 2 home runs. His #441 is a fourth-series card with the Royals.
Gail Hopkins was a left-handed-hitting first baseman and catcher who played 514 major league games from 1968 to 1974 for the White Sox, Royals and Dodgers. A catcher at Pepperdine, he was an All-American in 1963 and became the first Pepperdine baseball player to reach the majors. He played for the Edmonton Oilers of the Western Canadian Baseball League in 1964 before signing with Chicago. He was known as a hard man to strike out, with one of the lowest strikeout-to-at-bat ratios of his time. After the majors he played in Japan from 1975 to 1977 for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp and Nankai Hawks, setting a Carp home run record with 33 in 1975 and batting .329 in 1976, when he played in the Japanese All-Star game. He then left baseball for medicine, earned an M.D. at Rush Medical College and practiced orthopedic surgery in California, Illinois and West Virginia.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 160 | 4 | 42 | 88 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 #441 card?
It is card #441 of the 660-card 1973 Topps Baseball set, picturing Gail Hopkins of the Kansas City Royals.
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.