1964 Topps #50 Mickey Mantle
About Mickey Mantle
Card #50 opens the 1964 set for Mantle, and #331 gathers him with Roger Maris, Norm Cash and Al Kaline as the A.L. Bombers. Both report a broken season: chasing a Brooks Robinson drive at Baltimore on June 5, 1963, he caught his spikes in the fence and broke a bone in his foot, which cost him 61 games. He came back to bat .314 with 15 home runs in 65 games, and the Yankees were swept by the Dodgers in October, the first sweep in franchise history.
Mickey Charles Mantle was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, on October 20, 1931, and raised in Commerce, where his father Mutt, a semipro player, named him for catcher Mickey Cochrane and taught him to switch-hit: lefty against his father, righty against his grandfather. Yankees scout Tom Greenwade signed him out of Commerce High School in 1949, and he reached New York in 1951 at nineteen, taking over center field the next spring when Joe DiMaggio retired. The Mick won the 1956 Triple Crown, leading the majors in batting average (.353), home runs (52) and runs batted in (130), and was American League Most Valuable Player in 1956, 1957 and 1962. He led the league in home runs four times, was picked for 20 All-Star Games across 16 seasons, and won a Gold Glove in 1962. Playing on a knee he tore in the 1951 World Series and legs that never came back, he still reached twelve World Series, won seven, and holds Series records for home runs (18), runs (42), runs batted in (40), walks (43) and total bases (123). He finished in 1968 with 536 home runs and a .298 average, and the Yankees retired his number 7. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974, first ballot, with 88.2 percent of the vote.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 12,237 | 1 | 44 | 534 | 1,110 | 1,869 | 1,973 | 6,594 | 112 |
| SGC | 5,415 | 0 | 8 | 36 | 163 | 321 | 848 | 3,786 | 253 |
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
More Mickey Mantle in this set: #331 A.L. Bombers
Team card: #433 New York Yankees
More New York Yankees cards:
- #4 1963 American League Pitching Leaders
- #21 Yogi Berra
- #36 Hal Reniff
- #69 Clete Boyer
- #86 Al Downing
- #100 Elston Howard
- #118 John Blanchard
- #139 World Series Game #4 - Sealing Yanks' Doom
- #164 Bud Daley
- #190 Bobby Richardson
- #206 Steve Hamilton
- #219 Young Aces
- #225 Roger Maris
- #259 Harry Bright
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1964 Topps #50 card?
It is card #50 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees.
What are the key cards in the 1964 Topps set?
The #50 Mickey Mantle anchors the set, with #150 Willie Mays, #200 Sandy Koufax, #300 Hank Aaron, #440 Bob Clemente, #55 Ernie Banks and #125 Pete Rose (wearing the All-Star Rookie trophy) among the stars, the #331 A.L. Bombers card gathering Mantle with Roger Maris, Norm Cash and Al Kaline, the #423 Tops in NL card pairing Aaron and Mays, and the #243 Richie Allen and #541 Phil Niekro Rookie Stars cards.
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.