1963 Topps #534 Ken Walters
About Ken Walters
Card #534 is a high number in the seventh print series of the 1963 Topps set, the kind of card that keeps set builders hunting. It shows him with Cincinnati, where he spent the season as a spare outfielder on Fred Hutchinson's fifth-place club, an 86-76 team best remembered now for Pete Rose's rookie year. Wearing number 21, Walters got into 49 games, 32 of them as a pinch hitter, and hit .187 with one home run and seven RBIs in 75 at-bats. His last big-league game came on September 29, 1963.
Kenneth Rogers Walters was a right-handed outfielder born November 11, 1933 in Fresno, California. He graduated from Fremont High School in Oakland in 1951, and Detroit signed him as an amateur free agent the next year. He spent the rest of the decade in the minors, missing 1954 and 1955 for military service. On December 5, 1959 the Tigers sent him to Philadelphia with Ted Lepcio and minor leaguer Alex Cosmidis for Chico Fernandez and Ray Semproch. Walters debuted for the Phillies on April 12, 1960 against Cincinnati and singled in his first big-league at-bat, then hit .239 with eight home runs in 124 games as a rookie. A reserve in 1961, he was purchased by the Reds on February 9, 1962 and spent that whole season with their Triple-A club in San Diego, hitting .300 with 22 home runs. He came back to Cincinnati in 1963 for one last big-league stint and finished at .231 with 11 home runs and 58 RBI in 259 games. Two more minor league seasons followed before he retired. He died January 26, 2010 in San Ramon, California.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 249 | 0 | 17 | 127 | 69 | 27 | 7 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 19 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 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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Team card: #63 Cincinnati Reds
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1963 Topps #534 card?
It is card #534 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ken Walters of the Cincinnati Reds.
Why is #534 harder to find?
It is a high number card from the seventh print series, #512-576 - the last and scarcest run in the set. Price guides often band the highs as #523-576, but the printing break falls between #511 and #512.
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.