1964 Topps #184 Al Luplow
About Al Luplow
Card 184 belongs to the second series and pictures Luplow with Cleveland. It followed a 1963 in which he shifted across to right field for 72 games and appeared in 100 overall, but hit only .234 with seven home runs and 27 runs batted in. Injuries did the damage, starting with a wrist hurt in a mid-May collision with a wall and running on through a string of pulled leg muscles. Fuzzy vision that June turned out to need correcting, and he wore eyeglasses on the field the rest of the year. Cleveland had padded the brick walls along its foul lines before that season, largely because of how often he ran into them.
Alvin David Luplow Jr., born in Saginaw, Michigan on March 13, 1939, was a Michigan State halfback who scored a touchdown on his first varsity carry before baseball won out. He left East Lansing in May 1959, with the Spartans' baseball season still running, to sign a Cleveland bonus contract reported at $35,000 or more, a departure that helped push the major leagues to bar the signing of college players during the school year. A left-handed hitter who threw right-handed and chased fly balls with no regard for walls, he debuted with the Indians on September 16, 1961 and played seven seasons through 1967 for Cleveland, the New York Mets and the Pittsburgh Pirates, batting .235 with 292 hits, 33 home runs and 125 runs batted in over 481 games. He is best remembered for June 27, 1963 at Fenway Park, when he flew over the low right-center bullpen wall to backhand a would-be game-tying home run off the bat of Dick Williams, a catch broadcaster Curt Gowdy called the greatest he had ever seen. Back home in Saginaw afterward he sold real estate, worked as an appraiser and coached youth baseball. He was in the first class of the Saginaw County Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 and died in Saginaw on December 28, 2017.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 269 | 1 | 45 | 139 | 52 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1964 Topps #184 card?
It is card #184 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Al Luplow of the Cleveland Indians.
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.