1964 Topps #587 Bennie Daniels
About Bennie Daniels
Card #587 is a high number from the seventh series, the last and scarcest run of the 1964 set. The season behind it was his sharpest in Washington: a 3.70 ERA over 163 innings and 24 starts, including two shutouts of a Chicago White Sox club that finished one game out of first. His 8-10 record tracked the team, which lost 100 games; his salary that year was $15,000.
Bennie Daniels Jr. was born June 17, 1932, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and came west with his family to Compton, California, in 1945. He grew to 6-feet-2, starred in baseball, basketball and track at Compton High School, and signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates in July 1951. A Class C start at Great Falls, two years in the Army during the Korean War era, and a long climb through the farm system led to a 17-8 year for the Hollywood Stars in 1957 and a September call-up; his first big-league start came in the last major-league game played at Ebbets Field. On May 23, 1960, his second-inning single off Sandy Koufax was the only hit Pittsburgh managed in a 1-0 loss, and he drew a half-share of the champion Pirates' World Series money that fall. He moved to the expansion Washington Senators for 1961 and won 37 games there across five seasons. Daniels finished 45-76 with a 4.44 ERA and 471 strikeouts in 230 games, spent 1966 with Triple-A Hawaii, and settled back in Compton, where he worked at a Los Angeles county hospital and taught fundamentals to Little Leaguers.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 285 | 0 | 24 | 111 | 68 | 50 | 17 | 14 | 1 |
| SGC | 30 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
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 #587 card?
It is card #587 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bennie Daniels of the Washington Senators.
Is 1964 Topps #587 a scarce card?
It is a high number card from the seventh print series, #523-587, distributed last. Scarcer than the rest of the set but only mildly so - the high premium runs roughly 55-60 percent, far milder than the 1952-62 highs.
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.