1964 Topps #169 Del Crandall
About Del Crandall
His first year away from the Braves was a quiet one. Crandall backed up Tom Haller on a San Francisco club built around Willie Mays and Willie McCovey, getting into 69 games and batting .231 with 3 home runs and 11 runs batted in while the Giants finished fourth, three games out. Topps #169 lists him with San Francisco, an early-series card. It opens the three-season run he spent as a reserve receiver for three different clubs rather than as anybody's everyday man.
Delmar Wesley Crandall, born March 5, 1930 in Ontario, California, signed with the Boston Braves as an amateur free agent out of Fullerton Union High School and reached the majors at 19 in 1949, taking over for Bill Salkeld to become the youngest starting catcher in the game's history. After a two-year Army hitch during the Korean War he came back in 1953 to a franchise newly moved to Milwaukee, took the regular job from Walker Cooper and held it eight seasons, building a reputation as the era's best defensive catcher on a rifle arm and quick feet. He led National League catchers in assists six times, fielding percentage four times and putouts three times, was named to eight All-Star teams and played in eleven All-Star Games in the years of two a summer, and won four Gold Gloves. Crandall handled Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette and Bob Buhl through pennants in 1957 and 1958, homering in the deciding Game Seven of both World Series and helping Milwaukee win the 1957 title. A right-handed power hitter for a catcher, he cleared 20 home runs three times and finished in 1966 with 179 homers, 657 runs batted in and a .254 average. Milwaukee elected him to the Braves Hall of Fame in 2003.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 187 | 1 | 26 | 106 | 30 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 8 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 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 #169 card?
It is card #169 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Del Crandall of the San Francisco Giants.
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.