1977 Topps #550 Randy Jones
About Randy Jones
Card #5, from the League Leaders subset, shows Jones sharing the frame with Baltimore's Jim Palmer. Jones had led the majors in 1976 with 40 starts and 315 1/3 innings. His solo Padres card, #550, carries the All-Star designation. After arm surgery he went 6-12 with a 4.58 ERA in 1977. On May 4 he beat Jim Kaat and the Phillies 4-1 in 1 hour 29 minutes, the fastest game in Padres history.
Randy Jones was a left-handed sinkerball pitcher who won the 1976 National League Cy Young Award with the San Diego Padres. A fifth-round pick in 1972 out of Chapman College, he reached the majors in June 1973 after minor-league pitching instructor Warren Hacker taught him a new sinker grip. He lived on location, groundballs and quick work, and finished ten seasons at 100-123 with a 3.42 ERA. In 1975 he became the first 20-game winner in Padres history and finished second to Tom Seaver in the Cy Young vote. In 1976 he started the All-Star Game and tied Christy Mathewson's NL record by pitching 68 innings without a walk. He severed a nerve in his pitching arm in his last start of that season, and surgery ended his peak. The Padres traded him to the Mets in December 1980, and he pitched his last major league games in New York in 1982. The Padres retired his number 35 in 1997, and he was part of the inaugural Padres Hall of Fame class in 1999. He later coached young pitchers, Barry Zito among them, and died in 2025.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 128 | 3 | 48 | 52 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 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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More Randy Jones in this set: #5 League Leaders
Team card: #134 San Diego Padres Team
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- #215 Butch Metzger
- #241 Dave Tomlin
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1977 Topps #550 card?
It is card #550 of the 660-card 1977 Topps Baseball set, picturing Randy Jones of the San Diego Padres.
How many cards are in the 1977 Topps Baseball set?
660 cards, numbered 1 through 660 with none skipped and distributed as a single series. No card carries a catalogued print variation, so the base set and the master set are the same 660 cards.
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.