1961 Topps #422 Bud Daley
The back of this card gives his birth year as 1933; he was born in 1932.
Uncorrected error: The back gives his birth year as 1933; he was born in 1932.
About Bud Daley
Card #48 is the League Leaders card for American League games won in 1960, and it stacks Daley with Chuck Estrada, Jim Perry, Frank Lary, Milt Pappas and Art Ditmar. His 16 wins for a 58-96 Kansas City club put him third in the league. The grouping reads oddly in hindsight: Ditmar was the pitcher the Yankees sent to Kansas City with Deron Johnson on June 14, 1961, to get Daley. Card #422 is his last Topps card as an Athletic. He went 4-8 over 16 games before the deal, 8-9 in 23 games after it, and closed the pennant race with three complete-game wins in September.
Leavitt Leo "Bud" Daley was a left-handed pitcher who worked parts of ten big-league seasons between 1955 and 1964 for Cleveland, the Kansas City Athletics and the New York Yankees. Born in Orange, California, on October 7, 1932, he grew up in the hills outside San Diego and never played an organized game until he reached Woodrow Wilson High in Long Beach. A birth injury left his right arm an inch shorter than his left and impossible to straighten, so he fielded almost everything backhand. He threw a knuckleball and curves at two speeds, and he chose Cleveland from a crowd of interested clubs because Indians star Bob Lemon was a fellow Wilson graduate. Traded to Baltimore and flipped to Kansas City within three weeks in 1958, he moved into the rotation and won 16 games in both 1959 and 1960, earning All-Star honors in each season. Kansas City sent him to New York in June 1961, and he finished the clinching Game Five of that year's World Series against Cincinnati as the winning pitcher. He died in Riverton, Wyoming, in 2024 at 92.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 366 | 0 | 20 | 166 | 145 | 25 | 8 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 24 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-09-04. PSA counts are straight grades only; PSA half grades (PSA 1.5 among them) and qualified slabs are not included. SGC half grades fold down (8.5→8). Slabs of the two cards printed #463 are joined by description, never by number alone.
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More Bud Daley in this set: #48 League Leaders
Team card: #297 Kansas City Athletics Team
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- #143 Russ Snyder
- #177 Don Larsen
- #197 Dick Hall
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1961 Topps #422 card?
It is card #422 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bud Daley of the Kansas City Athletics.
Does 1961 Topps #422 have an error?
The back gives his birth year as 1933; he was born in 1932. It was never corrected, so there is no variation to chase - every copy of #422 reads the same way.
How many cards are in the 1961 Topps Baseball set?
587 cards, tracked as 596 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 589, but #426, #587 and #588 were never issued and two different cards were printed #463 - Jack Fisher and the Milwaukee Braves Team card, catalogued 463b - and eight cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, The Topps Archives, 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 2026-10-05.