1961 Topps #193 Gene Conley
About Gene Conley
Two weeks after the Celtics clinched the 1961 NBA title, Conley reported to Fenway Park and beat Washington 6-1 on April 25, throwing eight shutout innings in his first Red Sox start. The Phillies had traded him to Boston the previous December, and since he had already pitched for the Boston Braves in 1952 and won championships with the Celtics, he became the first athlete to play for three major-league teams in the same city. The shoulder pain came back within a few games, but he kept it to himself, worked 199.2 innings and went 11-14 with a 4.91 ERA for the sixth-place Red Sox. His card sits at 193 in the second series.
Donald Eugene Conley, born November 10, 1930, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and raised in Richland, Washington, was a rarity in American sport: the only athlete to win championships in both major-league baseball and the NBA. A 6-foot-8 right-hander, he starred in baseball and basketball at Washington State and signed with the Boston Braves in 1950. He won Eastern League MVP honors at Hartford in 1951 and was named Minor League Player of the Year twice, the first player so honored. He broke in with the Braves in 1952, made All-Star teams in 1954 and 1955, and won a World Series ring with Milwaukee in 1957. A 1959 trade sent him to the Phillies, where another All-Star selection and a Comeback Player of the Year award followed, and he finished with the Boston Red Sox from 1961 through 1963. He closed with a 91-96 record, 888 strikeouts and a 3.82 ERA over eleven seasons. In six NBA seasons, mostly as a Celtics forward, he won three straight titles from 1959 through 1961, later playing for the New York Knicks. He and his wife Katie ran the Foxboro Paper Company in Massachusetts for more than three decades. Named to the Washington Sports Hall of Fame in 1979, Conley died July 4, 2017.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 340 | 2 | 38 | 168 | 89 | 28 | 6 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 15 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 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 #193 card?
It is card #193 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Gene Conley of the Boston Red Sox.
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.