1963 Topps #440 Juan Marichal
About Juan Marichal
Card #440, a fifth-series number, covers the year Marichal turned into a front-line starter: 18-11 in 1962 with a 3.36 ERA over 36 starts, the best earned run average on a staff that also carried Jack Sanford and Billy O'Dell. That club won 103 games, beat the Dodgers in a three-game playoff, then pushed the Yankees to seven in the World Series. Marichal started Game Four at Yankee Stadium and led 2-0 through four innings before hurting his pitching hand trying to bunt; he never threw another pitch in the Series. 1962 also brought his first All-Star selection, and he was the winning pitcher in the first of that summer's two All-Star Games.
Juan Marichal, the Dominican Dandy, pitched sixteen major league seasons from 1960 to 1975, all but the last two for the San Francisco Giants. Born October 20, 1937 in the village of Laguna Verde, he learned the game from an older brother using golf balls sewn inside cloth and bats cut from tree branches. Across the 1960s he won 191 games, more than any pitcher in baseball and 27 clear of runner-up Bob Gibson. He won twenty or more six times, every one of those years carrying an ERA under 2.50 and better than 200 strikeouts, and he led the National League in wins twice, complete games twice, shutouts twice and ERA once. He was named to nine All-Star teams and was Most Valuable Player of the 1965 game, leaving eight All-Star appearances with a 0.50 ERA. On August 22, 1965 he struck Dodgers catcher John Roseboro with his bat during a Candlestick Park brawl, drawing a suspension and a then-record National League fine; the two later became close friends, and Roseboro's public forgiveness helped carry him to Cooperstown on the third ballot. He retired with 243 wins, 244 complete games, 2,303 strikeouts and a 2.89 ERA, never winning a Cy Young Award, and in 1983 became the first Dominican-born player elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,073 | 3 | 34 | 267 | 322 | 207 | 120 | 116 | 4 |
| SGC | 321 | 1 | 6 | 41 | 70 | 77 | 61 | 59 | 6 |
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 #440 card?
It is card #440 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants.
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.