1964 Topps #498 Dave Stenhouse
About Dave Stenhouse
Card #498 belongs to Topps' sixth series in the 1964 set. Washington is on the front, the only uniform Stenhouse ever wore in the majors. The statistics stop at 1963, when he went 3-9 with a 4.55 ERA in 16 starts. The season this card was sold into turned out to be his last in the big leagues: 26 games, 14 of them starts, a 2-7 record and a 4.81 ERA, ending with his final appearance on October 4. Collectors looking for his rookie card have to go back to the 1962 Rookie Parade issue.
Dave Stenhouse was a right-handed pitcher born September 12, 1933, in Westerly, Rhode Island. A basketball and baseball standout at the University of Rhode Island, he signed with the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent in June 1955, was taken out of the Cubs chain by Cincinnati in the December 1958 minor league draft, and climbed through Lafayette, Seattle and Jersey City. On December 15, 1961, Cincinnati traded him and catcher Bob Schmidt to the Washington Senators for Johnny Klippstein and Marty Keough. He debuted April 18, 1962, at 28, and went 11-12 with a 3.65 ERA over 197 innings as a rookie, earning a place on the American League All-Star squad in a summer when the majors staged two All-Star Games. He started the second of them, July 30 at Wrigley Field, and is credited as the first rookie to start a major league All-Star Game. His last big league game came October 4, 1964, and he finished 16-28 with a 4.14 ERA and 214 strikeouts in 76 games. He later coached at Rhode Island College and Brown University, and belongs to the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, not the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He died November 11, 2023.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 184 | 1 | 27 | 97 | 42 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 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 #498 card?
It is card #498 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dave Stenhouse of the Washington Senators.
Why is #498 harder to find?
It is a series 5-6 card. Cards from the fifth and sixth print series (#371-522) are a step tougher to find than #1-370; availability in 1964 runs in three tiers, not a cliff.
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.