1964 Topps #302 Dan Pfister
About Dan Pfister
Card #302 comes from the fourth series: Pfister was in his fourth big-league season by the time it reached packs. That season was his last in the majors. He opened with Kansas City, was sent down in early May after three rough outings, and spent the rest of the year shuttling between the Athletics and Triple-A Dallas, finishing with 19 appearances, three of them starts, and a 1-5 record with a 6.53 ERA in 41 1/3 innings. His final major-league game came July 31 against Baltimore. One more professional season at Birmingham in 1965 closed it out.
Daniel Albin Pfister, a 6-foot, 187-pound right-hander born December 20, 1936, in Plainfield, New Jersey, took the long road to the majors. Scouts did not come calling when he left South Broward High School in Hollywood, Florida, where he had moved to the mound only as a senior in 1954, so he pitched semipro ball around Miami before breaking into professional ball in 1957 and winning 13 games in the Class-C Evangeline League. Two years in the U.S. Army cost him 1959 and part of 1960; discharged that June, he went 13-5 for Shreveport. He debuted for the Kansas City Athletics on September 9, 1961, the first South Broward graduate to reach the big leagues, and his entire eight-season professional career stayed inside the Athletics organization. Over 65 major-league games he went 6-19 with a 4.87 ERA, 156 strikeouts and 142 walks in 249 1/3 innings. Right elbow surgery in 1963 and a balky arm afterward finished him at 28. He went home to Hollywood, worked as a fireman until retiring in 1994, coached baseball five years at Biscayne College, and was inducted into the National Senior Softball Hall of Fame in 1997. He died November 9, 2020, at 83.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 249 | 3 | 43 | 121 | 55 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 1 |
| SGC | 8 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 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 #302 card?
It is card #302 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dan Pfister of the Kansas City Athletics.
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.