1964 Topps #319 Paul Brown
About Paul Brown
1964 Topps #319 is a fourth-series Phillie. It looks back on a thin 1963: six games, two of them starts, 15.1 innings, a 4.11 ERA and an 0-1 mark. The encouraging line was the strikeouts - 11 of them against only five walks, a ratio he had never come close to in 1961 or 1962. It was also his last major league pitching until 1968, when he returned for two relief outings and made his final appearance on July 6 against the Mets.
Paul Dwayne Brown, a right-handed pitcher born June 18, 1941, in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and raised in Holdenville, Oklahoma, graduated from Moss High School and attended the University of Oklahoma. The Phillies signed him as an amateur free agent on February 3, 1960, and all but seven games of his eight-year professional career (1960-1965, 1967-1968) were spent inside their organization. Brown reached the majors on July 23, 1961, at age 20. He pitched for Philadelphia in parts of four seasons - 1961, 1962, 1963 and a two-game return in 1968 - going 0-8 with a 6.00 ERA over 36 appearances, 12 starts and one save, striking out 45 and walking 47 in 93 innings. His busiest year was 1962, when he made 23 appearances. Tommy John, whom the Phillies scouted and invited to spring training in 1961, became friends with Brown and remembered him as an outstanding pitcher and a nice young man. Brown's younger brother Jackie pitched in the majors and later coached; his son Daren managed the Seattle Mariners on an interim basis in 2010.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 227 | 2 | 23 | 140 | 38 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 8 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 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 #319 card?
It is card #319 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Paul Brown 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.