1964 Topps #324 Casey Stengel
About this card
This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1964 Topps set, one for each franchise. Nineteen are printed Manager; #486 Bob Kennedy is printed Head Coach because the Cubs were still running their College of Coaches.
About Casey Stengel
Again two cards, split across the run. Card #324 is a fourth-series issue of Stengel by himself. Card #393, "Casey Teaches," is a fifth-series card that pairs him with Ed Kranepool, the Bronx-born first baseman who had debuted at 17 in September 1962 as a late-inning defensive replacement for Gil Hodges. Kranepool was 19 that summer and claimed the first-base job, batting .257 with 10 home runs; on May 31, one day after playing all 18 innings of a doubleheader at Buffalo, he played all 23 innings of the second game of a doubleheader at Shea. The Mets opened Shea Stadium that April and went 53-109, their best finish yet and Stengel's last full season.
Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel reached the majors as a Brooklyn outfielder on September 17, 1912, and batted .284 over fourteen National League seasons with the Dodgers, Pirates, Phillies, Giants and Braves. His ninth-inning inside-the-park home run won Game One of the 1923 World Series for the Giants, the first World Series homer ever hit in Yankee Stadium, and he homered again in Game Three. Managing came next and went badly for two decades, with the Dodgers from 1934 to 1936 and the Braves from 1938 to 1943, until the Yankees hired him for 1949. New York then won five straight World Series from 1949 through 1953, the only time that has been done, along with ten pennants and seven titles in his twelve seasons. Dismissed shortly after the 1960 World Series loss, he was hired in late 1961 by the expansion New York Mets and managed four last-place clubs before retiring in 1965. His rambling, quotable double-talk became known as Stengelese; the nickname "the Ol' Perfessor" traces instead to 1914, when he helped coach baseball at the University of Mississippi and was designated an assistant professor. The Veterans Committee elected him to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966 as a manager.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 574 | 6 | 47 | 188 | 141 | 78 | 51 | 62 | 1 |
| SGC | 100 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 26 | 16 | 18 | 24 | 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 #324 card?
It is card #324 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Casey Stengel of the New York Mets. This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1964 Topps set, one for each franchise. Nineteen are printed Manager; #486 Bob Kennedy is printed Head Coach because the Cubs were still running their College of Coaches.
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.