1958 Topps #444 Danny Kravitz
About Danny Kravitz
Danny Kravitz is a Pittsburgh Pirates catcher on 1958 Topps card #444, from the sixth and final series of the 494-card set. In 1957 he hit .146 with four RBI in 19 games and 41 at-bats, 15 of those games behind the plate, and SABR notes he spent most of that season back in the minor leagues. He batted left-handed and stood 5 feet 11 inches.
Danny Kravitz was a left-handed-hitting catcher born December 21, 1930, in Lopez, Pennsylvania, the youngest of nine children of a Russian-born coal miner and his Austrian-born wife. Signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates after a 1949 tryout camp in Greenville, Alabama, he played the outfield for three minor-league seasons before service with the Marines kept him out of baseball in 1952 and 1953. Branch Rickey moved him behind the plate at Pirates camp in the spring of 1954, and he reached the majors on April 17, 1956, starting Pittsburgh's opener at the Polo Grounds. Less than a month later he beat the Philadelphia Phillies with a ninth-inning walk-off grand slam, his first big-league home run, erasing a 5-2 deficit. He stayed a reserve catcher through 1959 and into 1960, then a June 1, 1960 trade sent him to the Kansas City Athletics for Hank Foiles, so he missed the Pirates' 1960 World Series title. A catching platoon there gave him the busiest stretch of his career. Sold to the Cincinnati Reds after the season, he never appeared in another major-league game, closing a five-year career with a .236 average, 10 home runs and 54 RBI in 215 games. He played three more minor-league seasons, retired after 1963, and died June 19, 2013, in Danville, Pennsylvania, at 82.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball Almanac · BaseballCardPedia
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 375 | 0 | 11 | 128 | 137 | 63 | 21 | 14 | 1 |
| SGC | 22 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-07-09. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8). PSA counts are straight-graded (the +/Q qualifier rows are excluded).
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1958 Topps Danny Kravitz card?
It is card #444 of the 1958 Topps Baseball set - Topps' sixth flagship issue: 494 cards numbered 1-495 (#145 was never issued), with die-cut player photos on solid-color backgrounds and the first team logos on Topps fronts. It pictures Danny Kravitz, Pittsburgh Pirates.
How many graded copies of the 1958 Topps Danny Kravitz #444 are there?
PSA has graded 375 copies and SGC 22 as of the 2026-07-09 snapshot. Population is a scarcity guide, not a price - high-grade 1958s are notoriously tough because of the set's chronic centering and print-quality issues.
How many cards are in the 1958 Topps set?
494 issued cards, numbered 1-495 - #145 (Ed Bouchee) was pulled before release and never issued, leaving a permanent gap. The PSA master census counts 534 items: the 494 base cards plus 33 yellow-letter variations, 4 numerical checklist-back team cards, the 'Herrer' #433 error, and 2 unnumbered ad cards.
Sources: PSA CardFacts, Beckett, BaseballCardPedia, Baseball-Reference, PSA & SGC population reports, and hobby press-sheet research (Topps Archives, 2026). Card data compiled and maintained by T206Cards.com. Page last updated 2026-09-30.