1964 Topps #297 Ken MacKenzie
About Ken MacKenzie
1964 Topps #297 moves MacKenzie to the San Francisco Giants, a fourth-series number. St. Louis had sent him west the previous October in a deal for Jimmie Coker, so the card catches him on his third organization inside a year. Big league work was scarce that summer: ten games in May and June, a 5.00 ERA and one save across nine innings, with most of the season spent at Tacoma in the Pacific Coast League. Houston purchased his contract that October.
Kenneth Purvis MacKenzie, born March 10, 1934 in Gore Bay, Ontario, was a Canadian left-hander who spent parts of six major league seasons with the Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants and Houston Astros between 1960 and 1965. A member of Yale's class of 1956, he captained the baseball team and took second-team All-Ivy honors in hockey before Milwaukee signed him as an amateur free agent on September 4, 1956; the Braves converted him into a reliever in 1959. He is best remembered as an original Met, New York having bought his contract on October 11, 1961, the day after the expansion draft. Across 129 games, all but one of them in relief, he went 8-10 with a 4.80 ERA, 142 strikeouts and five saves in 208.1 innings, and all eight of those wins came in a Mets uniform. On July 23, 1965 he, Claude Raymond and Ron Taylor became the first three Canadians to pitch for one club in the same game. He came back to Yale as a freshman coach in 1967, ran the varsity baseball program from 1969 through 1978, then worked in the alumni office until retiring in 1984. He died December 14, 2023 at his home in Guilford, Connecticut, at 89.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 231 | 7 | 50 | 98 | 51 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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 #297 card?
It is card #297 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ken MacKenzie of the San Francisco Giants.
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.