1964 Topps #91 Bob Bailey
About Bob Bailey
Card #91 is a plain first-series base card, not a rookie issue, and it catches Bailey a year into the job Pittsburgh cleared for him by trading 1960 World Series hero Don Hoak to Philadelphia. Manager Danny Murtaugh had called the 20-year-old the key to the Pirates' 1963 season; instead both faltered, Bailey batting .228 with 12 home runs and 45 RBI across 154 games while the club finished eighth. He did lead National League third basemen in double plays turned.
Robert Sherwood Bailey signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates at one minute past midnight on June 16, 1961, hours after graduating from Long Beach's Woodrow Wilson High School, collecting a bonus reported at $175,000 and a label he never shook. He debuted at 19 in September 1962 and played 17 major league seasons through 1978 with Pittsburgh, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Montreal Expos, the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Red Sox, finishing at .257 with 189 home runs and 773 RBI in 1,931 games. Four years at third base in cavernous Forbes Field never matched the hype, and two more in Los Angeles went worse, but Montreal remade him: a Victoria Day grand slam in May 1970 touched off a 28-homer, 84-RBI season, the best of his career, and he stayed an Expos regular through 1975, adding 26 homers and 86 RBI in 1973. Cincinnati acquired him for Clay Kirby in December 1975, and he was on the Reds club that swept the Yankees in the 1976 World Series. His last plate appearance came as a pinch hitter in Boston's 1978 American League East tie-breaker, a strikeout against Goose Gossage. He died in 2018 at 75.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 261 | 0 | 12 | 135 | 75 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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 #91 card?
It is card #91 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bob Bailey of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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.