1979 Topps #572 Rod Gilbreath
About Rod Gilbreath
Gilbreath is listed with the Braves at #572 in the 1979 Topps set, which followed the final season of his major-league career. In that 1978 season he collected 80 hits in 326 at-bats. He also stole 7 bases and scored 22 runs for Atlanta.
Rod Gilbreath was a second baseman who spent his entire seven-year major league career, 1972 to 1978, with the Atlanta Braves. The Braves took him in the third round (69th overall) of the 1970 draft out of Jones County Junior College in Mississippi, and he reached Atlanta at 19 after a midseason promotion from Double-A Savannah in 1972. He split the next two years between the Braves and Triple-A Richmond, then held a big-league job from 1975 through 1978, topping 100 games in each of his last three seasons. He finished with a .248 average, 14 home runs and 125 RBI in 500 games, and led the National League with 20 sacrifice hits in 1976. After he retired as a player following the 1980 minor league season, he rejoined the Braves as a scout, minor league manager and player development executive, and was still on the club's professional scouting staff in 2011.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 59 | 10 | 34 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SGC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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 1979 Topps #572 card?
It is card #572 of the 726-card 1979 Topps Baseball set, picturing Rod Gilbreath of the Atlanta Braves.
How many cards are in the 1979 Topps Baseball set?
726 cards, numbered 1 through 726 with none skipped and issued as a single series, tracked as 727 collectible states: #369 Bump Wills comes with a Rangers or a Blue Jays team banner, and the master set counts both.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA, 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.