1963 Topps #233 Casey Stengel
About this card
The nineteen manager cards use the same portrait layout as the players. Twenty clubs, nineteen managers: the Cubs were run by their rotating College of Coaches from 1961 to 1965 and have no manager card.
About Casey Stengel
Two Stengel cards this year, from two different series. Card #43, "Veteran Masters," is a first-series combination card pairing him with Gene Woodling, the line-drive left fielder he platooned on all five straight Yankees champions from 1949 through 1953; Woodling closed a 17-year career with the 1962 Mets, playing his last big league game on September 15 that year. Card #233 is a third-series managers-subset card of Stengel alone. The team the two cards were sold alongside barely budged off its 40-120 debut, going 51-111 and finishing tenth again, 48 games behind the champion Dodgers, in the Mets' second and final season at the Polo Grounds.
Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel reached the majors as a Brooklyn outfielder on September 17, 1912, and batted .284 over fourteen National League seasons with the Dodgers, Pirates, Phillies, Giants and Braves. His ninth-inning inside-the-park home run won Game One of the 1923 World Series for the Giants, the first World Series homer ever hit in Yankee Stadium, and he homered again in Game Three. Managing came next and went badly for two decades, with the Dodgers from 1934 to 1936 and the Braves from 1938 to 1943, until the Yankees hired him for 1949. New York then won five straight World Series from 1949 through 1953, the only time that has been done, along with ten pennants and seven titles in his twelve seasons. Dismissed shortly after the 1960 World Series loss, he was hired in late 1961 by the expansion New York Mets and managed four last-place clubs before retiring in 1965. His rambling, quotable double-talk became known as Stengelese; the nickname "the Ol' Perfessor" traces instead to 1914, when he helped coach baseball at the University of Mississippi and was designated an assistant professor. The Veterans Committee elected him to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966 as a manager.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 553 | 0 | 26 | 176 | 157 | 96 | 53 | 45 | 0 |
| SGC | 96 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 20 | 14 | 27 | 19 | 1 |
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 Casey Stengel in this set: #43 Combo
Team card: #473 New York Mets
More New York Mets cards:
- #27 Choo Choo Coleman
- #43 Veteran Masters
- #59 Craig Anderson
- #68 Friendly Foes
- #78 Marv Throneberry
- #93 Galen Cisco
- #107 Jim Hickman
- #111 Al Jackson
- #135 Richie Ashburn
- #174 Larry Burright
- #197 Roger Craig
- #217 Joe Christopher
- #228 1963 Rookie Stars
- #245 Gil Hodges
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1963 Topps #233 card?
It is card #233 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Casey Stengel of the New York Mets. The nineteen manager cards use the same portrait layout as the players. Twenty clubs, nineteen managers: the Cubs were run by their rotating College of Coaches from 1961 to 1965 and have no manager card.
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.