1964 Topps #34 Jim Perry
About Jim Perry
Card #34 is Perry's plain Twins issue, and the season behind it was the quietest of his Minnesota years. Sam Mele leaned on Camilo Pascual, Jim Kaat, Dick Stigman and Mudcat Grant, and Perry spent the summer in the bullpen, going 6-3 with two saves and a 3.44 ERA over 42 appearances and 65 1/3 innings after making 25 starts the year before. Minnesota, a 91-win club in each of the two previous seasons, slid to 79-83 and a tie for sixth place, 20 games behind the Yankees.
James Evan Perry Jr., born October 30, 1935 in Williamston, North Carolina, pitched 17 major-league seasons from 1959 to 1975 for the Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland Athletics. Signed off the Campbell College campus by Cleveland scout Jim Gruzdis, he went 12-10 as a rookie in 1959 and finished second to Bob Allison in the Rookie of the Year voting, then tied Baltimore's Chuck Estrada for the American League lead with 18 wins in 1960. Traded to Minnesota in May 1963 for left-hander Jack Kralick, Perry spent years shuttling between the rotation and the bullpen until manager Billy Martin handed him a full-time starting job in 1969; he answered with a 20-6 season as the Twins took the first American League West title. He was better still in 1970, leading the league with 24 wins and winning the American League Cy Young Award. A three-time All-Star, he retired with 215 wins, 1,576 strikeouts and a 3.45 ERA. He and younger brother Gaylord, a Hall of Famer, remain the only brothers to each win a Cy Young Award, and Jim was inducted into the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame in 2011.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 245 | 0 | 15 | 82 | 77 | 44 | 14 | 13 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 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 #34 card?
It is card #34 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Perry of the Minnesota Twins.
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.