1973 Topps #472 The All-Time Grand Slam Leader - Lou Gehrig
About this card
Cards #1 and #471-478 are the All-Time Leaders: #1 All-Time Home Run Leaders pictures Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays, and #471-478 each name one all-time record holder - Ty Cobb (hits and batting), Lou Gehrig (grand slams), Hank Aaron (total bases), Babe Ruth (RBI), Walter Johnson (shutouts and strikeouts) and Cy Young (victories).
The story on this card
Card #472, a fourth-series card from the All-Time Leaders subset, marks Gehrig's career grand-slam record: he hit 23, a total Alex Rodriguez later passed. Topps prints him with the New York Yankees. His 1927 season with them, .373 with 47 home runs and 175 RBI, brought the first of his two MVP awards.
Henry Louis Gehrig grew up in New York City, the son of German immigrants, and starred at Columbia University before signing with the New York Yankees in 1923. He spent all 17 of his big-league seasons in pinstripes, nearly every game of them at first base. Sportswriters hung the nickname "the Iron Horse" on him in 1931 for the durability that carried him through 2,130 straight games, a record that stood 56 years until Cal Ripken Jr. passed it in 1995. Gehrig won two American League Most Valuable Player awards and took the 1934 Triple Crown with a .363 average, 49 home runs and 165 runs batted in. He played on six World Series winners and finished at .340 with 493 home runs and 1,995 RBI. An undiagnosed illness, later identified as the disease that now carries his name, pushed him out of the lineup on May 2, 1939; that July 4 he told a packed Yankee Stadium he considered himself "the luckiest man on the face of the earth." Baseball held a special election in 1939, the year he retired, to put him in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He died on June 2, 1941.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 729 | 2 | 70 | 268 | 172 | 79 | 51 | 87 | 0 |
| SGC | 110 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 18 | 22 | 27 | 2 |
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 #472 card?
It is card #472 of the 660-card 1973 Topps Baseball set, picturing Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees. Cards #1 and #471-478 are the All-Time Leaders: #1 All-Time Home Run Leaders pictures Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Willie Mays, and #471-478 each name one all-time record holder - Ty Cobb (hits and batting), Lou Gehrig (grand slams), Hank Aaron (total bases), Babe Ruth (RBI), Walter Johnson (shutouts and strikeouts) and Cy Young (victories).
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.