1964 Topps #41 Friendly Foes - Willie McCovey / Leon Wagner
On this card: Willie McCovey, Leon Wagner
About this card
This is one of the eleven combo cards in the 1964 Topps set, each gathering two or more players under a headline rather than giving one man his own card.
The story on this card
Card 41 in the 1964 Topps set pairs two former Pacific Coast League teammates who came up together in the Giants system: Willie McCovey, playing for the Giants, and Leon Wagner, by then an established slugger coming off three seasons with the Los Angeles Angels. The pairing follows the 1963 season, when McCovey shared the NL home run title with 44 and Wagner earned his second straight All-Star selection while hitting .291 with 26 homers and 90 RBI for the Angels. The two had played alongside each other at Triple-A Phoenix in the late 1950s on a Pacific Coast League championship club, giving the pairing a real history rather than a random front-office grouping. The card lists both men with those clubs, McCovey with the San Francisco Giants and Wagner with the Los Angeles Angels, as part of Topps series one for the year.
Willie McCovey, "Stretch," was the towering left-handed slugger who hit behind Willie Mays in San Francisco -- a three-time National League home run champion, the 1969 Most Valuable Player, and a Hall of Famer with 521 career home runs. Leon 'Daddy Wags' Wagner spent twelve big-league seasons swinging a feared left-handed bat for five clubs, highlighted by his 1962 All-Star Game MVP award and a .272 career average with 211 home runs built on power, not defense.
Sources: Wikipedia (Willie McCovey) · Wikipedia (Leon Wagner) · SABR BioProject (Willie Mccovey) · SABR BioProject (Leon Wagner) · National Baseball Hall of Fame · Baseball Almanac (Willie McCovey) · Baseball Almanac · Retrosheet
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 679 | 1 | 30 | 147 | 182 | 141 | 72 | 101 | 5 |
| SGC | 111 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 25 | 22 | 30 | 20 | 5 |
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
Team cards: #257 San Francisco Giants, #213 Los Angeles Angels
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- #3 1963 National League Pitching Leaders
- #9 1963 National League Home Run Leaders
- #18 Billy O'Dell
- #47 Giants 1964 Rookie Stars
- #82 Jim Davenport
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1964 Topps #41 card?
It is card #41 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Willie McCovey and Leon Wagner. This is one of the eleven combo cards in the 1964 Topps set, each gathering two or more players under a headline rather than giving one man his own card.
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.