1963 Topps #188 Eddie Bressoud
About Eddie Bressoud
The 1963 card, #188 in the second series, reports the breakout. Bressoud played 153 games for Boston in 1962 and hit .277 with 166 hits, 14 home runs, 79 runs, 40 doubles, a career-best nine triples and a career-high 68 RBI. He opened the year with a hit in each of his first 14 games. The glove made noise too, and not all of it good: his 28 errors were the most by any American League shortstop that season, though his .965 fielding percentage still beat the .956 the man he replaced had posted a year earlier.
Eddie Bressoud (born Edward Francis Bressoud) was a shortstop who played twelve major league seasons, 1956-1967, with the New York and San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals. A Los Angeles native signed by the Giants out of George Washington High School in 1950, he served in the Marine Corps from January 1953 to January 1955 before debuting on June 14, 1956. Houston made him the first pick of the October 1961 expansion draft and dealt him to Boston that November for Don Buddin, and his bat came alive in Fenway Park: a career-high 68 RBI in 1962, 20 home runs in 1963, and in 1964 a .293 average and the lone All-Star nod of his career. He went to the Mets after the 1965 season and to St. Louis on April 1, 1967, finishing on the Cardinals' championship club before spending 24 years teaching and coaching at De Anza College, where he took over the baseball program that same fall. He retired with a .252 average, 94 home runs and 365 RBI across 1,186 games, 1,002 of them at shortstop.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 261 | 0 | 4 | 91 | 111 | 43 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 29 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 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 #188 card?
It is card #188 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Eddie Bressoud 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.
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