1963 Topps #14 Pedro Ramos
About Pedro Ramos
Ramos's 1963 card, #14 in the set's first series, reports his first full season in Cleveland: 10-12 with a 3.71 ERA over 201.1 innings in 1962, the sixth and last of his 200-inning years. It was also the first year since 1957 that he did not lead the American League in losses. Topps pictures him in Indians colors for the second straight year, still a starter - 27 of his 37 appearances that summer were starts.
Pedro Ramos Guerra was a Cuban-born right-hander who pitched fifteen major-league seasons between 1955 and 1970 for the Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds and the expansion Washington Senators, finishing 117-160 with a 4.08 ERA and 1,305 strikeouts. He broke in with Washington at nineteen in 1955 and worked 200 or more innings six years running from 1957 through 1962 - durability that also left him leading the American League in losses four straight seasons, 1958 through 1961, with 18, 19, 18 and 20 defeats. His lone All-Star selection came in 1959. Nicknamed "The Cuban Cowboy" for a gunslinger persona rooted in his rural Pinar del Rio upbringing, he dressed in lace-trimmed black cowboy outfits modeled on his screen idols the Lone Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy. He repeatedly challenged Mickey Mantle to footraces the slugger never accepted, and he served the pitch Mantle drove off the Yankee Stadium facade on May 30, 1956. A Cienfuegos star in Cuba's winter league, Rookie of the Year in 1955-56 and MVP in 1960-61, he was elected in 1983 to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame, by then seated in Miami.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 205 | 0 | 4 | 67 | 82 | 36 | 10 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 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 #14 card?
It is card #14 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Pedro Ramos of the Cleveland Indians.
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.