1964 Topps #52 Chuck Hinton
About Chuck Hinton
1964 Topps #52 is a first-series card and the last to show Hinton as a Washington Senator. His fellow players voted him onto the American League All-Star team that summer, the first expansion Senator so honored; he got into the game only as a ninth-inning defensive replacement for Harmon Killebrew and never came to bat. Shirley Povich had spent the buildup calling him the closest thing the American League had to Willie Mays. A knee injury in April and a steady drip of trade rumors pulled him from .355 in June down to .274, still the best mark on the club, and on December 1 Washington shipped him to Cleveland for Bob Chance and Woodie Held.
Charles Edward Hinton Jr. (1934-2013) was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, played three sports at Shaw University, and signed with the Baltimore Orioles in 1956 after hitchhiking to an open tryout at Griffith Stadium. He won back-to-back Class C batting titles at Aberdeen in 1959 and Stockton in 1960, and the new Washington club took him with the 46th pick of the December 1960 expansion draft. A right-handed hitter who eventually played every position except pitcher, Hinton was the first African American player to star for the Washington Senators, and he later spent six seasons with the Cleveland Indians and one with the California Angels. Over eleven years he batted .264 with 1,048 hits, 113 home runs and 443 RBI in 1,353 games, and he remains the last Washington Senator to bat .300. He coached Howard University baseball from 1972 to 2000, leading the Bison to their first Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship, and in 1982 he helped found the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association with Brooks Robinson and two former Washington teammates. He died in Washington, D.C., in 2013 and is honored on the Washington Hall of Stars at RFK Stadium.
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 | 331 | 0 | 22 | 149 | 114 | 28 | 11 | 7 | 0 |
| SGC | 14 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 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 #52 card?
It is card #52 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Chuck Hinton of the Washington Senators.
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.