1963 Topps #103 Chuck Essegian
About Chuck Essegian
Topps still had Essegian listed with Cleveland on card #103, a first-series number, though the Indians had traded him to Kansas City on February 27, 1963, for Jerry Walker, sending him back to a club he had passed through for four games two years earlier. The season the card reports was the best of his career: .274 with 92 hits, a career-high 21 home runs and 50 RBI over 106 games, the heaviest workload of his six years.
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 | 272 | 0 | 10 | 124 | 99 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 18 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 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 #103 card?
It is card #103 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Chuck Essegian of the Cleveland Indians.
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.