1963 Topps #328 Dick Williams
About Dick Williams
Card #328, a fourth-series number, is the first to show Williams in Boston flannels, though the road there detoured through Texas. Baltimore sold him to the expansion Houston Colt .45s on October 12, 1962, and Houston turned around and traded him to the Red Sox for outfielder Carroll Hardy on December 10 without his ever playing a game for them. The line on the back is his Baltimore farewell: a .247 average, 44 hits and 18 RBI across just 82 games in 1962, split among first base, third base and the outfield. At 33 he was strictly a bench piece now, and Boston would be the last stop of a playing career.
Richard Hirschfeld Williams played parts of 13 major-league seasons between 1951 and 1964, a well-traveled utility man for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics and Boston Red Sox. He finished with a .260 average, 768 hits, 70 home runs and 331 RBI in 1,023 games, appearing 257 times at third base, 188 at first and most of the rest in the outfield. A shoulder separation suffered on a diving catch in August 1952 permanently weakened his throwing arm and pushed him toward the versatile, alert-minded game that defined him in the dugout. Boston released him in October 1964. He took over the Red Sox' Triple-A Toronto Maple Leafs and won Governors' Cup titles in 1965 and 1966, then inherited a big-league club that had finished ninth in the ten-team American League and drove it to the 1967 'Impossible Dream' pennant, a race settled on the final weekend and a seven-game World Series loss to St. Louis. Across 21 seasons he managed six franchises, winning back-to-back World Series with the Oakland Athletics in 1972 and 1973 and a National League pennant with the 1984 San Diego Padres, finishing with 1,571 managerial wins. The Veterans Committee elected him to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in December 2007; he was inducted in 2008.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 208 | 0 | 8 | 60 | 73 | 35 | 20 | 12 | 0 |
| SGC | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 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 #328 card?
It is card #328 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dick Williams of the Boston Red Sox.
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.