1958 Topps #361 Mike Fornieles
About Mike Fornieles
1958 Topps #361 shows Mike Fornieles with the Boston Red Sox, part of the fifth series. It reports 1957, when he was dealt from Baltimore to Boston on June 14 for Billy Goodman and reached career highs of 182 1/3 innings and eight complete games, going 10-13 with a 3.75 ERA over the year. That winter he went 11-6 for Marianao in the Cuban league, and 1958 became a 4-6, 4.96 ERA season, mostly in relief.
Jose Miguel Fornieles y Torres was born January 18, 1932, in Havana, Cuba, signed with the Washington Senators out of amateur ball, and debuted on September 2, 1952, at age twenty with a one-hit shutout of the Philadelphia Athletics. Washington traded him to the Chicago White Sox that winter for Chuck Stobbs. He moved to Baltimore in a six-player swap in May 1956, then to the Boston Red Sox on June 14, 1957, for infielder Billy Goodman. Boston used the right-hander as a starter at first, then turned him into its bullpen ace: he pitched only in relief from 1959 on, and in 1960 he set an American League record with seventy relief appearances, led the league with 48 games finished, tied for the AL save lead, and won the first Sporting News American League Fireman of the Year Award. His lone All-Star selection came in 1961. In Cuban League winters with Marianao he was Rookie of the Year and an ERA champion, and he pitched the Tigres to back-to-back Caribbean Series titles. He finished 63-64 with 55 saves and died in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1998 at 66.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 229 | 1 | 6 | 80 | 67 | 50 | 17 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 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 Mike Fornieles card?
It is card #361 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 Mike Fornieles, Boston Red Sox.
How many graded copies of the 1958 Topps Mike Fornieles #361 are there?
PSA has graded 229 copies and SGC 13 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.