1958 Topps #292 Ned Garver
About Ned Garver
Ned Garver's 1958 Topps card, #292, arrives in the fourth series with the Kansas City Athletics. It reports his first season in Kansas City, 1957: a 6-13 record and 3.84 ERA over 24 games, 23 of them starts, and 145 1/3 innings, after the Ohio native from Ney had spent 1952 through 1956 with the Detroit Tigers.
Ned Garver was a right-handed pitcher from the farm town of Ney, Ohio, who broke into the major leagues on April 28, 1948 with the St. Louis Browns. Over 14 seasons with the Browns, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics and Los Angeles Angels he went 129-157 with a 3.73 ERA, nearly all of it for second-division clubs. His signature year was 1951, when he went 20-12 for a Browns club that finished 52-102; he and Irv Young, who won 20 for the 1905 Boston team, are the only pitchers since 1901 to win 20 games for a 100-loss team. Garver led the American League in complete games in 1950 and again in 1951, started the 1951 All-Star Game in his only All-Star selection, and finished second to Yogi Berra in that year's American League Most Valuable Player voting. He could swing it, too, hitting .305 in 1951 and .218 for his career with seven home runs, and he was used as a pinch hitter and pinch runner. A pinched vertebra in his neck in 1952 changed him for good, but he pitched on through 1961. He was never inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 293 | 1 | 15 | 123 | 86 | 37 | 16 | 15 | 0 |
| SGC | 22 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 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 Ned Garver card?
It is card #292 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 Ned Garver, Kansas City Athletics.
How many graded copies of the 1958 Topps Ned Garver #292 are there?
PSA has graded 293 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.