1964 Topps #164 Bud Daley
About Bud Daley
Card #164 caught Daley in what became his last big-league season. A year after the arm injury that wiped out 1963, he was back but not the same pitcher: 13 games, three starts, 35 innings, 25 walks against just 16 strikeouts, a 3-2 record and a 4.63 ERA. Most of that work came in May, and the Yankees parked him at Triple-A Richmond for part of the summer. His final major-league outing came on July 26 in Detroit, six innings for a 5-4 win. After the season New York sent him to Cleveland.
Leavitt Leo "Bud" Daley was a left-handed pitcher who worked parts of ten big-league seasons between 1955 and 1964 for Cleveland, the Kansas City Athletics and the New York Yankees. Born in Orange, California, on October 7, 1932, he grew up in the hills outside San Diego and never played an organized game until he reached Woodrow Wilson High in Long Beach. A birth injury left his right arm an inch shorter than his left and impossible to straighten, so he fielded almost everything backhand. He threw a knuckleball and curves at two speeds, and he chose Cleveland from a crowd of interested clubs because Indians star Bob Lemon was a fellow Wilson graduate. Traded to Baltimore and flipped to Kansas City within three weeks in 1958, he moved into the rotation and won 16 games in both 1959 and 1960, earning All-Star honors in each season. Kansas City sent him to New York in June 1961, and he finished the clinching Game Five of that year's World Series against Cincinnati as the winning pitcher. He died in Riverton, Wyoming, in 2024 at 92.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 280 | 1 | 23 | 136 | 81 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 0 |
| SGC | 15 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 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 #164 card?
It is card #164 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bud Daley of the New York Yankees.
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.