1964 Topps #194 John Goryl
About John Goryl
Card #194 comes from the 1964 Topps set's second series. It is also the last of his three cards in Topps' 1960s run. Goryl got into 58 games for Minnesota in 1964, starting 18 at second base and seven at third, but the bat went cold: 16 hits in 114 at-bats for a .140 average with no home runs. He played his final big-league game on October 2, 1964.
John Albert Goryl was born October 21, 1933, in Cumberland, Rhode Island, and signed with the Boston Braves as an amateur free agent in 1951. A right-handed infielder listed at 5-foot-10 and 175 pounds, he spent seven full seasons in the minors, passing through the Braves, Baltimore and Chicago Cubs chains, before debuting with the Cubs on September 20, 1957. He played 117 games over three seasons in Chicago (1957-59), mostly at second and third base, then was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers on April 8, 1960, going west alongside Ron Perranoski, Lee Handley and $25,000 in the deal that brought Don Zimmer to Chicago. Two more years in the minors followed until Minnesota selected him from the Dodgers in the Rule 5 major league draft in November 1961, and he finished his playing days with the Twins in 1964. In all he batted .225 with 134 hits, 16 home runs and 48 RBIs in 276 big-league games. He later managed in the Twins farm system and coached third base for them, replacing Gene Mauch as Minnesota manager in August 1980 and finishing 34-38 as a big-league skipper. Decades of coaching and player-development work with Cleveland followed; he won the Mike Coolbaugh Award in 2012 and was elected to the Cleveland Guardians Distinguished Hall of Fame in 2024.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 224 | 2 | 36 | 98 | 50 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 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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- #4 1963 American League Pitching Leaders
- #6 1963 American League Strikeout Leaders
- #8 1963 American League Batting Leaders
- #10 1963 American League Home Run Leaders
- #12 1963 American League R.B.I. Leaders
- #15 Zoilo Versalles
- #34 Jim Perry
- #54 Sam Mele
- #73 Jimmie Hall
- #81 All-Star Vets
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1964 Topps #194 card?
It is card #194 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing John Goryl 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.