1964 Topps #313 Chuck Hiller
About Chuck Hiller
#313 sits in the fourth series. Alvin Dark had handed second base to Jim Davenport for 1964, but a family illness called Davenport away, Hiller hit near .400 in the Cactus League, and the job came back to him. He led off a May 27 win with a homer against Bob Gibson, then slid to .189 by mid-June with six errors, and the Giants gave the position to rookie Hal Lanier. He finished at .180.
Chuck Hiller was a left-handed-hitting, right-handed-throwing second baseman from Johnsburg, Illinois, who spent eight big-league seasons with the Giants, Mets, Phillies and Pirates between 1961 and 1968. Cleveland signed him in 1957 and then left him unprotected, and San Francisco took him in the minor league draft of December 1958 - a bargain that paid off when he was named Texas League Player of the Year in 1960. His college hitting for St. Thomas later earned him a place in the national intercollegiate baseball hall of fame in St. Joseph, Missouri. He was never a big bat, .243 with 20 home runs in 704 games, and his work in the field earned him the nickname Iron Hands, but one swing put him in the record book: a Game 4 grand slam off the Yankees' Marshall Bridges in the 1962 World Series, the first by a National Leaguer. His best average came off the bench, .280 for the 1966 Mets. His playing days ended in 1968, and his baseball life ran another 35 years as a coach, minor league manager and infield instructor, including a ring as a St. Louis coach in 1982. Leukemia took him in 2004 at 70.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 216 | 4 | 43 | 105 | 39 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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 #313 card?
It is card #313 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Chuck Hiller 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.