1978 Topps #522 Dick Williams
About this card
This is one of the 25 manager cards. Team cards and manager cards are separate cards this year: every club has a team card, and every club except the Milwaukee Brewers has a manager card - George Bamberger was hired in late January 1978, too late to be included.
About Dick Williams
Williams made Gary Carter Montreal's regular catcher in place of Barry Foote in 1977 and used an outfield of Andre Dawson, Ellis Valentine and Warren Cromartie. The Expos finished 75-87, a 20-win improvement over 1976. His 1978 Topps #522 identified him as Montreal's manager.
Richard Hirschfeld Williams played parts of 13 major-league seasons between 1951 and 1964, a well-traveled utility man for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics and Boston Red Sox. He finished with a .260 average, 70 home runs and 331 RBI. In the field he appeared in 456 games in the outfield, 257 at third base and 188 at first. A shoulder separation suffered on a diving catch in August 1952 permanently weakened his throwing arm. Boston released him in October 1964. He took over the Red Sox' Triple-A Toronto Maple Leafs and won Governors' Cup titles in 1965 and 1966. He then inherited a big-league club that had finished ninth in the ten-team American League and drove it to the 1967 'Impossible Dream' pennant, a race settled on the final weekend, before a seven-game World Series loss to St. Louis. In 21 seasons as a manager he won back-to-back World Series with the Oakland Athletics in 1972 and 1973 and a National League pennant with the 1984 San Diego Padres, finishing with 1,571 wins. The Veterans Committee elected him to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in December 2007; he was inducted in 2008.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 171 | 6 | 43 | 71 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 16 | 0 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 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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Related cards
Team card: #244 Montreal Expos Team
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- #15 Tony Perez
- #43 Bill Atkinson
- #72 Andre Dawson
- #97 Stan Bahnsen
- #120 Gary Carter
- #185 Ellis Valentine
- #221 Chris Speier
- #269 Wayne Twitchell
- #294 Larry Parrish
- #321 Santo Alcala
- #348 Del Unser
- #374 Jose Morales
- #399 Pete Mackanin
- #414 Darold Knowles
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1978 Topps #522 card?
It is card #522 of the 726-card 1978 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dick Williams of the Montreal Expos. This is one of the 25 manager cards. Team cards and manager cards are separate cards this year: every club has a team card, and every club except the Milwaukee Brewers has a manager card - George Bamberger was hired in late January 1978, too late to be included.
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.