1964 Topps #58 Don Demeter
About Don Demeter
Demeter's 1964 Topps card puts him in a Tigers uniform for the first time, following the December 5, 1963 trade that sent him and Jack Hamilton to Detroit for pitcher Jim Bunning and catcher Gus Triandos - a deal that would loom larger once Bunning threw a perfect game for Philadelphia. Card #58, a series-1 base issue, reports his 1963 season with the Phillies: a career-high 154 games played, 22 home runs, 83 RBI and a .258 average.
Don Demeter was a 6-foot-4 outfielder who signed with Brooklyn for an $800 bonus out of Capitol Hill High School and played 11 major league seasons (1956-1967) for the Dodgers, Phillies, Tigers, Red Sox and Indians. He won a World Series ring with the 1959 Dodgers, the year he homered three times in one game and became "Dangerous Don" in the papers. Traded to Philadelphia in May 1961, he had his finest season in 1962 - a .307 average, 29 home runs and 107 RBI - and that September began a 266-game errorless streak, the major league record for outfielders until Darren Lewis passed it in 1994. Dealt to Detroit for Jim Bunning after 1963, he later played for Boston and finished with Cleveland in 1967; a late-season physical voided a sale back to Detroit by flagging a heart problem later traced to diet, and he retired before the 1968 season. He batted .265 with 163 home runs and 563 RBI in 1,109 games, then pastored an Oklahoma City Baptist church he helped found. He entered the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame in 2010 and died in 2021 at 86.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 180 | 0 | 17 | 90 | 45 | 19 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 7 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 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 #58 card?
It is card #58 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Don Demeter of the Detroit Tigers.
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.