1974 Topps #144 Dodgers Field Leaders - Walter Alston / Tom Lasorda / Jim Gilliam / Red Adams / Monty Basgall
On this card: Walter Alston, Tom Lasorda, Jim Gilliam, Red Adams, Monty Basgall
About this card
Managers have their own cards this year, separate from the 24 team cards: twenty Field Leaders cards picture a manager with two to four of his coaches, and #578 Ralph Houk of the Tigers is the one solo manager card. The Athletics, Yankees and Padres have a team card but no manager card. Eight Field Leaders cards include a Hall of Famer, among them the Dodgers' Walter Alston and Tom Lasorda (#144) and coaches Bill Mazeroski (#489) and Larry Doby (#531).
About Dodgers Field Leaders (Walter Alston / Tom Lasorda / Jim Gilliam / Red Adams / Monty Basgall)
Alston shared 1974 card #144 with Los Angeles coaches Tom Lasorda, Jim Gilliam, Red Adams and Monty Basgall. That season he used Mike Marshall in a record 106 games and considered using the reliever as a starter. Alston's Dodgers finished 102-60 and won the National League pennant. Walt Alston managed the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers for 23 seasons on one-year contracts. His teams won seven National League pennants and four World Series, including Brooklyn's only championship.
Alston was quiet and serious, Lasorda loud and outgoing, and in 1974 the Dodgers won 102 games and the National League West. They beat Pittsburgh in the NLCS and lost the World Series to Oakland in five games. Lasorda later said the thing he did best for Alston was help create a loose, happy ball club. Card #144, the Dodgers' manager-and-coaches card, puts him with Walter Alston, Jim Gilliam, Red Adams and Monty Basgall. Left-handed pitcher turned Hall of Fame manager who ran the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1976 to 1996, winning four National League pennants and the 1981 and 1988 World Series. He later led the United States to Olympic gold at Sydney in 2000.
Gilliam was the Dodgers' first-base coach under Walter Alston in 1974, after managing the San Juan team in the Puerto Rican winter league in 1973. The Dodgers won the National League West with 102 victories, beat Pittsburgh in the NLCS and lost the World Series to the Oakland Athletics in five games. Card #144 is the club's manager-and-coaches card, shared with Alston, Tom Lasorda, Red Adams and Monty Basgall. Jim Gilliam was the Dodgers' switch-hitting second baseman and 1953 National League Rookie of the Year, a patient number-two hitter behind Maury Wills who won four World Series in Brooklyn and Los Angeles and became one of baseball's first Black coaches.
The Dodgers won the 1974 National League pennant with Adams as pitching coach, one of three pennants on which he served, along with 1977 and 1978. His card, #144, is the team's managers-and-coaches card: Walter Alston heads it, followed by Tommy Lasorda, Jim Gilliam, Adams and Monty Basgall. Red Adams pitched eight games for the 1946 Chicago Cubs, then scouted for the Dodgers from 1959 to 1968 and coached their pitchers from 1969 to 1980; Don Sutton said no person ever meant more to his career.
Basgall was on Walter Alston's coaching staff when the Dodgers won 102 games in 1974 and took the National League West by four games over Cincinnati. They beat Pittsburgh in the NLCS and lost the World Series to Oakland in five games. He shares card #144, the Los Angeles manager-and-coaches issue, with the same four men as on his 1973 card. Second baseman who played 200 games for the Pittsburgh Pirates between 1948 and 1951, then spent 1973 through 1986 as the Dodgers' infield and bench coach under Walter Alston and Tommy Lasorda, working with four National League pennant winners.
Sources: Wikipedia (Walter Alston) · Wikipedia (Jim Gilliam) · Wikipedia (Red Adams) · Wikipedia (Monty Basgall) · SABR BioProject (Walter Alston) · SABR BioProject (Tom Lasorda) · SABR BioProject (Jim Gilliam) · National Baseball Hall of Fame · Baseball Almanac (Jim Gilliam) · BaseballCardPedia
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 279 | 0 | 69 | 155 | 25 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 3 |
| SGC | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 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 1974 Topps #144 card?
It is card #144 of the 660-card 1974 Topps Baseball set, picturing Walter Alston, Tom Lasorda, Jim Gilliam, Red Adams and Monty Basgall. Managers have their own cards this year, separate from the 24 team cards: twenty Field Leaders cards picture a manager with two to four of his coaches, and #578 Ralph Houk of the Tigers is the one solo manager card. The Athletics, Yankees and Padres have a team card but no manager card. Eight Field Leaders cards include a Hall of Famer, among them the Dodgers' Walter Alston and Tom Lasorda (#144) and coaches Bill Mazeroski (#489) and Larry Doby (#531).
How many cards are in the 1974 Topps Baseball set?
660 cards, tracked as 678 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 660 with none skipped, issued all at once as a single series and printed in equal quantities; 17 cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately - fourteen San Diego / "Washington Nat'l Lea." pairs (thirteen Padres player cards and the #226 team card), the three-state #599 Rookie Pitchers, the #608 Apodaco misspelling and the #654 Jesus Alou front without a position.
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