1963 Topps #299 1963 Rookie Stars
On this card: Dave Morehead, Bob Dustal, Dan Schneider, Tom Butters
About this card
The twenty Rookie Stars cards, four players each and all titled "1963 Rookie Stars", carry the rookie class - Pete Rose on #537, Willie Stargell on #553, Tony Oliva and Ed Kranepool on #228, Rusty Staub on #544, Bill Freehan on #466 and Dave McNally on #562. Three of them (#169, #208, #544) are rookie cards for only some of the men pictured.
The story on this card
Card #299 is Morehead's Topps debut and his recognized rookie card, a series-4 Rookie Stars panel he shares with Bob Dustal, Dan Schneider and Tom Butters. Behind it sits 1962 at Triple-A Seattle, where he went 10-9 with a 3.72 ERA and 159 strikeouts in 26 starts for Johnny Pesky's Rainiers, and Pesky came east with him, taking over as Boston's manager for 1963. A 4-8 season with a 4.80 ERA at Class-A Johnstown in 1961 was all the professional work before that. Dave Morehead was a hard-throwing Red Sox right-hander who no-hit Cleveland at Fenway Park on September 16, 1965, the last no-hitter by a Boston pitcher until 2001, before a shoulder injury and the 1968 expansion draft sent him to Kansas City.
Dustal's only Topps card is a fourth-series Rookie Stars panel, card #299, shared with Dave Morehead, Dan Schneider and Tom Butters and representing the Red Sox, Tigers, Braves and Pirates. It is his recognized rookie card, issued the same spring he reached the majors with Detroit. Dustal pitched exclusively in relief for the 1963 Tigers, debuting April 9 and making his last big-league appearance May 2, working six innings over seven games with an 0-1 record and a 9.00 ERA; his only decision came in a 15-inning loss to Boston at Fenway Park. A right-handed reliever from Sayreville, New Jersey, who logged 116 minor league wins across 14 seasons in the Tigers system before a brief 1963 stint in Detroit's bullpen.
Schneider reached the majors on May 12, 1963, less than a year after signing, and he was still 20 years old the day he first pitched for Milwaukee. He worked 30 games as a rookie, three of them starts, going 1-0 with a 3.09 ERA and 19 strikeouts over 43 2/3 innings - the lowest single-season ERA he would ever post in the big leagues. Topps gave him card 299, a four-player Rookie Stars panel in the fourth print series that puts him alongside Dave Morehead, Bob Dustal and Tom Butters and spans four clubs: Boston, Detroit, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh. Tucson-raised left-hander and first-team Arizona All-American who relieved for the Braves and Astros across five scattered seasons from 1963 to 1969, then went home and helped bring spring training back to Tucson.
Butters spent most of 1963 at Triple-A Columbus, going 6-5 with a 2.69 ERA, and was back in Pittsburgh for six September outings that left him without a decision for the second straight autumn. Topps put him on card #299, a fourth-series Rookie Stars issue that crosses four organizations: Dave Morehead of the Red Sox, Bob Dustal of the Tigers, Dan Schneider of the Braves, and Butters for the Pirates. It is a genuine rookie card of his, and despite sitting near the 300 mark. Dustal's whole major-league life, seven games that April and May, was already over by the time the card reached collectors. A Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander whose brief 1960s career was cut short by a car-accident whiplash injury; he went on to build Duke athletics as its longtime AD, hiring coach Mike Krzyzewski along the way.
Sources: Wikipedia (Dave Morehead) · Wikipedia (Bob Dustal) · Wikipedia (Dan Schneider) · Wikipedia (Tom Butters (athletic director)) · SABR BioProject (Dave Morehead) · SABR BioProject (Tom Butters)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 220 | 0 | 22 | 87 | 61 | 19 | 18 | 11 | 2 |
| SGC | 15 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-09-24. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8), and PSA's qualified grades are counted separately from the straight-grade rows shown here.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1963 Topps #299 card?
It is card #299 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dave Morehead, Bob Dustal, Dan Schneider and Tom Butters. The twenty Rookie Stars cards, four players each and all titled "1963 Rookie Stars", carry the rookie class - Pete Rose on #537, Willie Stargell on #553, Tony Oliva and Ed Kranepool on #228, Rusty Staub on #544, Bill Freehan on #466 and Dave McNally on #562. Three of them (#169, #208, #544) are rookie cards for only some of the men pictured.
Is 1963 Topps #299 a rookie card?
Yes - #299 is a rookie card for every player pictured on it: Dave Morehead, Bob Dustal, Dan Schneider and Tom Butters.
How many cards are in the 1963 Topps Baseball set?
576 cards, tracked as 583 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 576 with no gaps and no number used twice, and seven cards carry a catalogued print variation - three checklists, the two Rookie Stars cards also printed with a "1962" heading, and the #341 Jack Baldschun and #454 Art Fowler print states - that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, 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 2026-10-03.