1964 Topps #6 1963 American League Strikeout Leaders - Camilo Pascual / Jim Bunning / Dick Stigman
On this card: Camilo Pascual, Jim Bunning, Dick Stigman
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 League Leaders card recaps the 1963 American League strikeout race, and it was a tight one at the top: Camilo Pascual of the Minnesota Twins led with 202 strikeouts, backed by a 21-9 record and a 2.46 ERA in his finest season. Detroit's Jim Bunning was right behind with 196 strikeouts, going 12-13 for the Tigers that year. Rounding out the trio, Twins left-hander Dick Stigman posted 193 strikeouts while working a full turn in Minnesota's rotation, finishing 15-15 with a 3.25 ERA. Pascual and Stigman give the card two Twins arms alongside Bunning's Tiger, three of the American League's most reliable strikeout pitchers of the era captured together on one board.
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 Bunning was a hard-throwing right-hander who threw no-hitters in both leagues, including a 1964 perfect game for the Phillies, and later served as a US Senator from Kentucky. Dick Stigman - Small-town Minnesota left-hander who pitched seven big-league seasons for Cleveland, Minnesota and Boston, won 12 games for the surprising 1962 Twins and 15 more in 1963, and finished with a 46-54 record and 755 strikeouts.
Sources: Wikipedia (Camilo Pascual) · Wikipedia (Jim Bunning) · Wikipedia (Dick Stigman) · SABR BioProject (Camilo Pascual) · SABR BioProject (Jim Bunning) · SABR BioProject (Dick Stigman) · Baseball Almanac (Camilo Pascual) · Baseball Almanac (Jim Bunning) · Baseball Almanac (Dick Stigman)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 269 | 0 | 10 | 79 | 90 | 43 | 23 | 23 | 1 |
| SGC | 23 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
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.
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Related cards
Team cards: #318 Minnesota Twins, #67 Detroit Tigers
More Minnesota Twins cards:
- #2 1963 American League E.R.A. Leaders
- #4 1963 American League Pitching 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
More Detroit Tigers cards:
- #8 1963 American League Batting Leaders
- #12 1963 American League R.B.I. Leaders
- #19 Don Wert
- #39 Hank Aguirre
- #58 Don Demeter
- #98 Bill Bruton
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1964 Topps #6 card?
It is card #6 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Camilo Pascual, Jim Bunning and Dick Stigman. 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.
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.