1964 Topps #4 1963 American League Pitching Leaders - Whitey Ford / Camilo Pascual / Jim Bouton
On this card: Whitey Ford, Camilo Pascual, Jim Bouton
The hobby catalogs split the back two ways, with and without an apostrophe after "Pitching". PSA's set list carries a single #4 card, but its population report grades the two backs separately, so each is tracked here on its own.
About this card
Cards #1-12 are the League Leaders subset that opens the set: twelve cards recapping the 1963 leaders in six categories (E.R.A., pitching, strikeouts, batting, home runs and R.B.I.), the National League card first and the American League card second in each pair.
The story on this card
This card salutes the American League's top three winners of 1963. Whitey Ford topped the league outright at 24-7 with a 2.74 ERA for the Yankees, a season some historians believe would have earned him a second Cy Young Award had a separate prize existed for each league that year, since the single award went to Sandy Koufax. Right behind him, tied in the win column, stood Camilo Pascual of the Twins, who went 21-9 with a 2.46 ERA and a league-best 202 strikeouts, and Yankees right-hander Jim Bouton, who matched Pascual's win total at 21-7. The card credits Ford and Bouton to the Yankees and Pascual to the Twins, marking the pennant race the Yankees won that October before falling to the Dodgers in the World Series.
Whitey Ford was the New York Yankees' calm, curveball-first ace, the Chairman of the Board who won 236 games, three American League wins titles, the 1961 Cy Young Award and the career World Series pitching records across eleven pennant seasons. Camilo Pascual - Cuban right-hander whose overhand curveball, learned from Adolfo Luque, carried him from the worst Senators teams to three straight American League strikeout crowns and back-to-back 20-win seasons for the Minnesota Twins. Jim Bouton was the Yankees' Bulldog, a hard-throwing right-hander who won 21 games in 1963 and both of his 1964 World Series starts before an arm injury remade him as a knuckleballer and, in Ball Four, baseball's most notorious diarist.
Sources: Wikipedia (Whitey Ford) · Wikipedia (Camilo Pascual) · Wikipedia (Jim Bouton) · SABR BioProject (Whitey Ford) · SABR BioProject (Camilo Pascual) · SABR BioProject (Jim Bouton) · Baseball Almanac (Whitey Ford) · Baseball Almanac (Camilo Pascual) · Baseball Almanac (Jim Bouton)
Print variations
Two states of #4 are tracked individually: 4a - No Apostrophe After Pitching On Back and 4b - Apostrophe After Pitching On Back. The difference is on the back of the card (back text).
States catalogued by PSA's population report and the Trading Card Database; each is tracked here individually.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4a - No Apostrophe After Pitching On Back | |||||||||
| PSA | 233 | 0 | 8 | 36 | 53 | 49 | 29 | 58 | 0 |
| SGC | 64 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 15 | 22 | 0 |
| 4b - Apostrophe After Pitching On Back | |||||||||
| PSA | 125 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 35 | 19 | 20 | 24 | 0 |
| Not designated by PSA | |||||||||
| PSA | 166 | 0 | 3 | 56 | 62 | 27 | 12 | 4 | 2 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-09-04. Half grades fold down for both graders (8.5→8); PSA qualified slabs (OC, ST, PD, MC and the like) are not counted. Where a grader registers a variation separately its population is listed under that variation; PSA slabs whose label names no variation are listed as not designated, while SGC slabs whose label names no variation are counted under 4a - No Apostrophe After Pitching On Back.
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Related cards
Team cards: #433 New York Yankees, #318 Minnesota Twins
More New York Yankees cards:
More Minnesota Twins cards:
- #2 1963 American League E.R.A. Leaders
- #6 1963 American League Strikeout Leaders
- #8 1963 American League Batting Leaders
- #10 1963 American League Home Run Leaders
- #12 1963 American League R.B.I. Leaders
- #15 Zoilo Versalles
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1964 Topps #4 card?
It is card #4 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Whitey Ford, Camilo Pascual and Jim Bouton. Cards #1-12 are the League Leaders subset that opens the set: twelve cards recapping the 1963 leaders in six categories (E.R.A., pitching, strikeouts, batting, home runs and R.B.I.), the National League card first and the American League card second in each pair.
Why does the Trading Card Database call the common #4 back 4b?
TCDB letters the scarce apostrophe state 4a and the common no-apostrophe state 4b. The base state here is the common no-apostrophe back, which PSA's population report grades on its own line; slabs whose PSA label names neither back are shown separately as not designated. Read the wording on a label, never the letter.
Does 1964 Topps #4 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked individually: 4a - No Apostrophe After Pitching On Back (The common back: no apostrophe after "Pitching" in the back text. PSA's population report grades it on its own line; PSA's single set-list row for #4 names neither back) and 4b - Apostrophe After Pitching On Back (An apostrophe prints after "Pitching" on the back - the scarce state. PSA's population report grades it separately from the common back). Owning any one of them fills the #4 slot; the master set counts each state.
How many cards are in the 1964 Topps Baseball set?
587 cards, tracked as 589 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 587 with no gaps, and no number carries two different cards; two cards - #4, the A.L. Pitching Leaders, and #517, the seventh-series checklist - carry a catalogued back variation that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, The Topps Archives, Baseball Almanac, 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 2026-10-11.