1964 Topps #566 Ed Kranepool
About Ed Kranepool
Two Kranepool cards here, and neither one is a rookie card. #393, 'Casey Teaches,' is a fifth-series card that frames the teenager alongside manager Casey Stengel; #566 is his solo card from the seventh series, a high number. Both look back on 1963, his first extended look: .209 with 57 hits and 14 RBI in 86 games, a year that stalled in early July with his average near .190 and sent him to Triple-A Buffalo. He hit .310 there and was back in New York by September.
Ed Kranepool was born November 8, 1944, in the Bronx and starred at James Monroe High School before the expansion Mets signed him on June 27, 1962 for an $80,000 bonus. He debuted that September 22 at seventeen, the first teenager to play for the club, and was still on the roster in 1979 as the last man left from the original 1962 Mets. A left-handed first baseman who also worked the outfield, he spent all eighteen of his major league seasons in New York, the longest tenure in franchise history, and remains the Mets' all-time leader in games played with 1,853, alongside 1,418 hits, 118 home runs, 614 RBI and a .261 average. He was New York's lone All-Star representative in 1965 and homered in Game Three of the 1969 World Series, then reached the Series again with the 1973 National League champions. Late in his career 'Steady Eddie' became one of the game's most reliable pinch hitters, batting .396 off the bench from 1974 through 1978 and going 17-for-35 in 1974 for a .486 mark that still stands as the season record for pinch hitting. He later worked as a stockbroker and restaurateur, joined the New York Mets Hall of Fame in 1990, and died September 8, 2024, in Boca Raton, Florida.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 330 | 10 | 45 | 144 | 78 | 28 | 17 | 7 | 1 |
| SGC | 26 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 12 | 5 | 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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Related cards
More Ed Kranepool in this set: #393 Casey Teaches
Team card: #27 New York Mets
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- #44 Duke Carmel
- #57 Tim Harkness
- #84 Carl Willey
- #95 George Altman
- #113 Grover Powell
- #129 Amado Samuel
- #155 Duke Snider
- #176 Tracy Stallard
- #202 Galen Cisco
- #235 Ron Hunt
- #251 Choo Choo Coleman
- #288 Al Moran
- #324 Casey Stengel
- #345 Frank Thomas
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1964 Topps #566 card?
It is card #566 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ed Kranepool of the New York Mets.
Is 1964 Topps #566 a scarce card?
It is a high number card from the seventh print series, #523-587, distributed last. Scarcer than the rest of the set but only mildly so - the high premium runs roughly 55-60 percent, far milder than the 1952-62 highs.
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.