1963 Topps #393 Ken MacKenzie
About Ken MacKenzie
1963 Topps #393 keeps MacKenzie in Mets flannels, a fifth-series card. He repeated himself in the best way: for a club headed to 111 losses he went 3-1 in 34 games, again the staff's lone pitcher above .500. New York then dealt him to the pennant-chasing St. Louis Cardinals on August 5, 1963 for right-hander Ed Bauta, and he closed the year with eight relief outings in St. Louis, short of the World Series trip the trade had him hoping for.
Kenneth Purvis MacKenzie, born March 10, 1934 in Gore Bay, Ontario, was a Canadian left-hander who spent parts of six major league seasons with the Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants and Houston Astros between 1960 and 1965. A member of Yale's class of 1956, he captained the baseball team and took second-team All-Ivy honors in hockey before Milwaukee signed him as an amateur free agent on September 4, 1956; the Braves converted him into a reliever in 1959. He is best remembered as an original Met, New York having bought his contract on October 11, 1961, the day after the expansion draft. Across 129 games, all but one of them in relief, he went 8-10 with a 4.80 ERA, 142 strikeouts and five saves in 208.1 innings, and all eight of those wins came in a Mets uniform. On July 23, 1965 he, Claude Raymond and Ron Taylor became the first three Canadians to pitch for one club in the same game. He came back to Yale as a freshman coach in 1967, ran the varsity baseball program from 1969 through 1978, then worked in the alumni office until retiring in 1984. He died December 14, 2023 at his home in Guilford, Connecticut, at 89.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 227 | 0 | 8 | 145 | 52 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 16 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 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 #393 card?
It is card #393 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ken MacKenzie of the New York Mets.
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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