1964 Topps #247 Dave DeBusschere
About Dave DeBusschere
1964 Topps #247 is a third-series card - DeBusschere had already turned up in the 1963 set. It shows him with the Chicago White Sox right after the only full major league season he would ever have: 24 games, a 3-4 record and a 3.09 ERA across 84 1/3 innings. The highlight came on August 13, 1963, when he shut out the Cleveland Indians on six hits with one walk and three strikeouts. A month earlier, on July 17, he had rapped the only hit of his career, a single off Bennie Daniels, in 22 lifetime at-bats.
David Albert DeBusschere (born October 16, 1940, in Detroit) starred in both baseball and basketball at Austin Catholic Preparatory School and the University of Detroit, pitching the Titans to three NCAA baseball tournament berths while averaging 24 points a game on the hardwood. The Chicago White Sox signed him in 1962 for a $75,000 bonus; that same year the Detroit Pistons claimed him with a territorial draft pick, and the two-sport balancing act that defined his early twenties was under way. DeBusschere debuted for Chicago on April 22, 1962, pitched again in 1963, and closed his big-league book with a 3-4 record and a 2.90 ERA over 36 games, his last outing coming September 2, 1963. He kept pitching in the White Sox farm system for two more years before choosing basketball for good. He went on to eight NBA All-Star selections with the Pistons and New York Knicks, anchored both New York championship teams in 1970 and 1973, and entered the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983 - still the only former major league ballplayer enshrined there.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 304 | 1 | 28 | 126 | 80 | 33 | 15 | 21 | 0 |
| SGC | 27 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 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 #247 card?
It is card #247 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dave DeBusschere of the Chicago White Sox.
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.