1964 Topps #189 Bob Hendley
About Bob Hendley
Second-series card #189, not a rookie issue, pictures Hendley with a new club while the figures on its back belong to his last year as a Brave: 9-9 with a 3.93 ERA, 105 strikeouts and 169-1/3 innings over 41 games in 1963, 24 of them starts. His best night was a ten-inning, four-hit 1-0 shutout of the Mets on April 14. On December 3, 1963, Milwaukee traded him with Del Crandall and Bob Shaw to San Francisco for Felipe Alou, Ed Bailey, Billy Hoeft and a player to be named later, Ernie Bowman; Giants manager Alvin Dark called Hendley and Shaw the heart of the deal.
Bob Hendley (born Charles Robert Hendley, April 30, 1939, in Macon, Georgia) turned down a baseball and basketball scholarship from the University of Georgia to sign with the Milwaukee Braves on August 17, 1957, out of Lanier High School, where he had thrown three no-hitters. After a 16-win, 147-strikeout 1960 season for Triple-A Louisville, that year's Junior World Series champion, the left-hander reached the majors on June 23, 1961. Over seven seasons with the Braves, Giants, Cubs and Mets he went 48-52 with a 3.97 ERA and 522 strikeouts in 216 games, 126 of them starts, battling elbow trouble that eventually required three operations. He is remembered above all for September 9, 1965, when he held the Dodgers to one hit and an unearned run while losing 1-0 to Sandy Koufax's perfect game, a contest SABR members voted the greatest ever pitched; he beat Koufax in a rematch five days later. Hendley left the game after 1969, earned a Mercer University degree in the off-seasons, coached high school baseball in Georgia across three decades, shared the 2014 Willie, Mickey and the Duke Award with Koufax and Vin Scully, and entered the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (2)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 217 | 3 | 21 | 113 | 53 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 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 #189 card?
It is card #189 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bob Hendley of the San Francisco Giants.
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.