1964 Topps #83 Gus Triandos
About Gus Triandos
Detroit sent him to Philadelphia on December 5, 1963, along with Jim Bunning, for Don Demeter and Jack Hamilton, and he became Bunning's personal catcher and Clay Dalrymple's backup. On Father's Day, June 21, in the first game of a doubleheader at Shea Stadium, he caught Bunning's perfect game against the Mets and added two hits, two RBIs and a run. He batted .250 with 8 home runs and 33 RBIs in 73 games for a club that led the National League from Opening Day, then lost ten straight in late September to finish 92-70, one game behind St. Louis. Card #83 is a first-series Phillies card.
Gus Triandos was a big, slow-footed, powerful catcher who played thirteen major league seasons from 1953 to 1965 with the Yankees, Orioles, Tigers, Phillies and Astros. Signed by the Yankees in 1948 out of San Francisco's Mission High School, he went to Baltimore in the seventeen-player swap of November 17, 1954, the largest two-team trade in major league history, played mostly first base for his first two Oriole seasons, and was the regular catcher by 1957. Under manager Paul Richards, who called him the best catcher in either league, he made the American League All-Star team in 1957, 1958 and 1959, and his 30 home runs in 1958 tied Yogi Berra's league record for catchers. That September he caught Hoyt Wilhelm's no-hitter and supplied the game's only run with a homer; Richards had an oversized mitt built to help him corral Wilhelm's knuckleball. He hit 142 home runs in eight Baltimore seasons, then caught Jim Bunning's 1964 perfect game as a Phillie to become the first catcher to handle no-hitters in both leagues. He stole exactly one base in 1,206 games and finished at .244 with 167 home runs and 608 RBIs. He later scouted for the Los Angeles Dodgers and joined the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame in 1981.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 237 | 0 | 17 | 125 | 57 | 25 | 10 | 2 | 1 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 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 #83 card?
It is card #83 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Gus Triandos of the Philadelphia Phillies.
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.