1963 Topps #216 Gene Conley
About Gene Conley
A broken index finger on his pitching hand and a badly sprained ankle cut short his winter with the Knicks, which at least let him take a full spring training, but the shoulder never came around. Conley started nine games, finished 3-4 with a 6.64 ERA across 40.2 innings, and the last of those starts, a six-inning win over the Twins on September 21, turned out to be his final major-league appearance. Series 3 puts him at number 216, in the Red Sox uniform he wore for his last three big-league seasons.
Donald Eugene Conley, born November 10, 1930, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and raised in Richland, Washington, was a rarity in American sport: the only athlete to win championships in both major-league baseball and the NBA. A 6-foot-8 right-hander, he starred in baseball and basketball at Washington State and signed with the Boston Braves in 1950. He won Eastern League MVP honors at Hartford in 1951 and was named Minor League Player of the Year twice, the first player so honored. He broke in with the Braves in 1952, made All-Star teams in 1954 and 1955, and won a World Series ring with Milwaukee in 1957. A 1959 trade sent him to the Phillies, where another All-Star selection and a Comeback Player of the Year award followed, and he finished with the Boston Red Sox from 1961 through 1963. He closed with a 91-96 record, 888 strikeouts and a 3.82 ERA over eleven seasons. In six NBA seasons, mostly as a Celtics forward, he won three straight titles from 1959 through 1961, later playing for the New York Knicks. He and his wife Katie ran the Foxboro Paper Company in Massachusetts for more than three decades. Named to the Washington Sports Hall of Fame in 1979, Conley died July 4, 2017.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 312 | 2 | 30 | 147 | 96 | 22 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
| SGC | 21 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 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 #216 card?
It is card #216 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Gene Conley 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.