1978 Topps #517 Andres Mora
About Andres Mora
Baltimore recalled Mora from Rochester in mid-May 1978, after he started the year there again. He played 76 games, hitting .214 with eight home runs. He drove in 14 runs and homered twice off Chicago's Ken Kravec on September 1. Card #517 pictures him as an Oriole.
Andres Mora was a Mexican right-handed outfielder who played parts of four major league seasons, 1976 to 1980, for the Baltimore Orioles and Cleveland Indians, hitting 27 home runs. He won his first Mexican League home run title in 1975 with Saltillo, and Baltimore bought his contract that August. After a 1980 spell in Cleveland he returned home by choice, still 24, and played in the Mexican League until 1997 for Saltillo, Nuevo Laredo and Monterrey. He retired with 419 Mexican League home runs, behind only Hector Espino at the time, and won four summer home run crowns and three in the Mexican Pacific League. He reached a personal best of 41 homers in 1985 with the Tecolotes and hit over .300 for eight straight seasons from 1983 to 1990. He was elected to the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003 and was named left fielder of the league's centennial all-time team in 2025. Mora died in Saltillo in 2015.
Sources: SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 95 | 8 | 42 | 38 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 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 1978 Topps #517 card?
It is card #517 of the 726-card 1978 Topps Baseball set, picturing Andres Mora of the Baltimore Orioles.
How many cards are in the 1978 Topps Baseball set?
726 cards, numbered 1 through 726 with none skipped and issued as a single series, and 728 collectible states: #23 Bump Wills comes with or without a black circle, and #374 Jose Morales with or without black stitching over the red laces, so the master set counts both states of each.
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.