1961 Topps #384 Chuck Essegian
About Chuck Essegian
Card #384, a fifth-series number in the 1961 set, files Essegian with the Kansas City Athletics, a club he barely passed through. Baltimore, which had picked him up that February and given him one hitless at-bat, traded him to the A's on April 12 alongside Jerry Walker; Cleveland took him in early May, leaving his whole Kansas City line at 2-for-6 with an RBI in four games. The 1960 season behind the card was thin bench work for the Dodgers: .215 with 3 home runs and 11 RBI in 79 at-bats.
Chuck Essegian was a right-handed-hitting outfielder and pinch hitter, born August 9, 1931, in Boston and raised in Los Angeles. At Stanford he was a twice All-Pacific Coast Conference linebacker, played in the 1952 Rose Bowl, and set an intercollegiate record with 13 home runs as a senior. He signed with Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League in 1953 and debuted for the Philadelphia Phillies on April 15, 1958, then played for the Cardinals, Dodgers, Orioles, Athletics and Indians across six big-league seasons. For the 1959 Dodgers he hit two pinch-hit home runs in the World Series against the Chicago White Sox, a Series record equaled since only by Boston's Bernie Carbo in 1975; he was also the second man after Jackie Jensen to appear in both a Rose Bowl and a World Series. He finished at .255 with 47 home runs and 150 RBI in 404 games, spent 1964 with the Kintetsu Buffaloes in Japan, and later practiced law in Southern California until retiring in 1987.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 421 | 2 | 57 | 213 | 110 | 27 | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 19 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1961 Topps #384 card?
It is card #384 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Chuck Essegian of the Kansas City Athletics.
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.