1958 Topps #186 Jack Meyer
About Jack Meyer
Jack Meyer appears in the third series of 1958 Topps as #186, listed with the Philadelphia Phillies. The season behind it was a rough one: 19 games, two starts, an 0-2 record and a 5.73 ERA over 37.2 innings in 1957, with arm trouble and part of the year back in Triple-A. Entering 1958 he thought dental work might have cured the tooth trouble at the root of his arm woes.
John Robert Meyer was a Philadelphia native who starred in baseball, football and track at Penn Charter, the city's old Quaker prep school. The Yankees offered him $25,000 out of high school; he turned it down for college at Wake Forest, hurt his arm pitching semipro ball, and signed with his hometown Phillies in 1951 for just $3,500. The hard-throwing right-hander debuted in April 1955 and had his best year immediately, leading the National League with 16 saves and 36 games finished, striking out 97 in 110 1/3 innings and finishing runner-up to Bill Virdon for Rookie of the Year. From 1956 on the Phillies used him mainly in relief, where he worked from a crouched, arms-dangling "gorilla stance" he adopted to lock in on the catcher's target. Off the field he was one of the Dalton Gang, a quartet of Phillies pitchers notorious for late-night carousing; a scuffle after a night of drinking in Pittsburgh in May 1960 wrecked his back, cost him a $1,200 fine and the rest of the season, and led to surgery. He pitched one more big-league game, in 1961, and finished 24-34 with a 3.92 ERA. He died of a heart attack in 1967 at 34.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 227 | 0 | 12 | 67 | 83 | 35 | 15 | 15 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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 Jack Meyer card?
It is card #186 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 Jack Meyer, Philadelphia Phillies.
How many graded copies of the 1958 Topps Jack Meyer #186 are there?
PSA has graded 227 copies and SGC 11 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.