1964 Topps #537 Dan Osinski
About Dan Osinski
Card #537 is a series-7 high number, and it reports Osinski's first full season with the Los Angeles Angels: 8-8 with a 3.28 ERA and 100 strikeouts across 47 appearances, 16 of them starts. The year turned on April 13, 1963, when a line drive off the bat of J.C. Martin of the White Sox broke a finger on his pitching hand; Osinski blamed that finger for the trouble that dogged him in California afterward.
Dan Osinski (November 17, 1933 - September 13, 2013) was a right-handed relief pitcher from Chicago who signed with the Cleveland Indians in 1951, at age 17, for $4,000 - the most he could take without being classed a "bonus baby" and stuck on the big-league roster for a year instead of developing in the minors. He spent a decade down there, two of those years lost to the Army, and shared a room with Roger Maris at Keokuk, Reading and Tulsa before Kansas City took him out of the Chicago White Sox organization in the minor-league draft of November 27, 1961. Osinski debuted in the majors on April 11, 1962, at age 28, and was sold to the Los Angeles Angels that July for $35,000 and a player to be named later. A Pacific Coast League sportswriter in Portland had already tagged him "The Silencer," and the name stuck. He pitched for the Athletics, Angels, Milwaukee Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros, finishing 29-28 with a 3.34 ERA, 400 strikeouts and 18 saves in 324 games - an original "fireman" from the years when the relief specialist was becoming a fashionable idea. His last major-league outing came for Houston on April 16, 1970; the final batter he faced, Willie Mays, grounded out.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 295 | 3 | 54 | 142 | 61 | 24 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 17 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 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 #537 card?
It is card #537 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dan Osinski of the Los Angeles Angels.
Is 1964 Topps #537 a scarce card?
It is a high number card from the seventh print series, #523-587, distributed last. Scarcer than the rest of the set but only mildly so - the high premium runs roughly 55-60 percent, far milder than the 1952-62 highs.
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.