1963 Topps #220 Camilo Pascual
About Camilo Pascual
His best year followed: 21-9, a 2.46 ERA, 18 complete games and 202 strikeouts, a third consecutive American League strikeout crown. The 1963 set's first series looks back at 1962 and finds him twice. Card #8 collects the league's winningest pitchers - Ralph Terry, Dick Donovan, Ray Herbert, Pascual and Jim Bunning - and card #10 stacks the strikeout leaders, with Pascual over Bunning, Terry, teammate Jim Kaat and Juan Pizarro. Kaat was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2022, which gives that little leader card lasting pull. Pascual's own Twins card, #220, arrived in the third series.
Camilo Pascual, a right-handed pitcher born in Havana on January 20, 1934, signed with the Washington Senators before the 1952 season after a summer in the Sooner State, Longhorn and Border leagues. He learned his signature overhand curveball from Cuban pitching legend Adolfo Luque, his winter-ball manager at Marianao. Pascual reached the majors on April 15, 1954 and spent five years losing for some of the weakest Senators clubs of the era before breaking through at 17-10 in 1959. He then led the American League in strikeouts three straight seasons, won 20 games twice, and finished a seven-time All-Star. Ted Williams called his the most feared curveball in the American League for 18 years, and the pitch is still rated among the best the game has produced. Across 18 seasons with Washington, Minnesota, the expansion Senators, Cincinnati, Los Angeles and Cleveland he went 174-170 with 2,167 strikeouts and 36 shutouts. Cooperstown never called, but he belongs to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame and, since 2012, the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame. He later served as the Twins pitching coach and spent decades as an international scout, signing talent out of Venezuela and beyond.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 222 | 0 | 17 | 102 | 69 | 23 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 20 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 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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Related cards
More Camilo Pascual in this set: #8 League Leaders, #10 League Leaders
Team card: #162 Minnesota Twins
More Minnesota Twins cards:
- #4 1962 American League Home Run Leaders
- #8 1962 American League Pitching Leaders
- #10 1962 American League Strikeout Leaders
- #26 Ray Moore
- #40 Vic Power
- #75 Bob Allison
- #89 Dick Stigman
- #110 Rich Rollins
- #127 Bill Tuttle
- #165 Jim Kaat
- #186 Jerry Zimmerman
- #198 Lenny Green
- #228 1963 Rookie Stars
- #246 Lee Stange
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1963 Topps #220 card?
It is card #220 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Camilo Pascual of the Minnesota Twins.
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.