1964 Topps #348 Ed Lopat
About this card
This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1964 Topps set, one for each franchise. Nineteen are printed Manager; #486 Bob Kennedy is printed Head Coach because the Cubs were still running their College of Coaches.
About Ed Lopat
The second year went bad in a hurry. Kansas City was 17-35 and playing .327 ball on June 10, 1964, when owner Charlie Finley turned the job over to Mel McGaha; the Athletics finished 57-105, last in the ten-team American League, and Lopat's big-league managing record closed at 90-124. He did not leave town with the job, though: he stayed in the Kansas City organization, working for Finley in the front office and then scouting, until the club moved to Oakland after the 1967 season, and he later scouted for the Expos, Royals and Yankees. Card 348 comes out of the fourth series and pictures him once more with Kansas City.
Ed Lopat, born Edmund Walter Lopatynski in New York City on June 21, 1918, pitched twelve big-league seasons for the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles, debuting in April 1944 and finishing in 1955. A 5-foot-10 left-hander who beat hitters with an ever-growing assortment of speeds, grips and deliveries rather than a fastball, he answered to both the Junkman and Steady Eddie; Ted Williams, asked to name the five toughest pitchers he had faced, put Lopat at the head of the list. He went 166-112 with a 3.21 ERA, and from 1948 through 1953 formed the Yankees' Big Three with Allie Reynolds and Vic Raschi while New York won five straight World Series from 1949 to 1953. He pitched in the 1951 All-Star Game, and in 1953, at 35, he led the American League in ERA at 2.42 and in winning percentage at .800 on a 16-4 record. In seven World Series starts he went 4-1 with a 2.60 ERA. Coaching, managing and scouting kept him in the game for decades afterward, and he was inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame in 1978.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 243 | 5 | 46 | 125 | 30 | 18 | 10 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 6 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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 #348 card?
It is card #348 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ed Lopat of the Kansas City Athletics. This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1964 Topps set, one for each franchise. Nineteen are printed Manager; #486 Bob Kennedy is printed Head Coach because the Cubs were still running their College of Coaches.
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.