1964 Topps #81 All-Star Vets - Nellie Fox / Harmon Killebrew
On this card: Nellie Fox, Harmon Killebrew
About this card
This is one of the eleven combo cards in the 1964 Topps set, each gathering two or more players under a headline rather than giving one man his own card.
The story on this card
This combination card pairs two of the American League's steadiest mainstays, Nellie Fox and Harmon Killebrew, saluting the veteran presence each brought into 1964. Fox was coming off his fourteenth and final season with the Chicago White Sox, a .260 average in 137 games as the club's longtime second baseman and a 12-time All-Star, before moving to the Houston Colt .45's for 1964. Killebrew, the Minnesota Twins' primary power threat, had led the American League in home runs each of the previous two seasons, hitting 45 with 96 RBI in 1963 while playing left field. Card number 81 comes from Topps' first print series of the 1964 set, pairing two perennial All-Stars who faced each other as AL rivals but never as teammates.
Nellie Fox was the pesky, nearly impossible to strike out second baseman who sparked the pennant-winning 1959 "Go-Go" White Sox and won that season's American League MVP award. Harmon Killebrew was the Twins' quiet, powerfully built slugger of the 1960s, a six-time American League home run champion who hit more homers in the decade than anyone else and won the 1969 AL Most Valuable Player award.
Sources: Wikipedia (Nellie Fox) · Wikipedia (Harmon Killebrew) · SABR BioProject (Nellie Fox) · SABR BioProject (Harmon Killebrew) · Baseball Almanac (Nellie Fox) · Baseball Almanac (Harmon Killebrew)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 882 | 2 | 31 | 253 | 233 | 169 | 79 | 106 | 9 |
| SGC | 125 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 24 | 27 | 30 | 27 | 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.
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Related cards
Team cards: #496 Chicago White Sox, #318 Minnesota Twins
More Chicago White Sox cards:
- #2 1963 American League E.R.A. Leaders
- #13 Hoyt Wilhelm
- #31 Dave Nicholson
- #66 Eddie Fisher
- #85 Pete Ward
- #107 White Sox 1964 Rookie Stars
More Minnesota Twins cards:
- #2 1963 American League E.R.A. Leaders
- #4 1963 American League Pitching 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
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1964 Topps #81 card?
It is card #81 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Nellie Fox and Harmon Killebrew. This is one of the eleven combo cards in the 1964 Topps set, each gathering two or more players under a headline rather than giving one man his own card.
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.