1964 Topps #562 Pedro Ramos
About Pedro Ramos
Card #562, a seventh-series high number, reports the best Cleveland season of Ramos's three: 9-8, a 3.12 ERA and 169 strikeouts over 184.2 innings in 1963. No card back could hold his evening of July 31 that year, when in the second game of a doubleheader against the Angels he struck out a career-high 15, homered twice, and hit the second of four consecutive Cleveland home runs off Paul Foytack - tying a major-league record and making Foytack the first pitcher to surrender four in a row.
Pedro Ramos Guerra was a Cuban-born right-hander who pitched fifteen major-league seasons between 1955 and 1970 for the Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds and the expansion Washington Senators, finishing 117-160 with a 4.08 ERA and 1,305 strikeouts. He broke in with Washington at nineteen in 1955 and worked 200 or more innings six years running from 1957 through 1962 - durability that also left him leading the American League in losses four straight seasons, 1958 through 1961, with 18, 19, 18 and 20 defeats. His lone All-Star selection came in 1959. Nicknamed "The Cuban Cowboy" for a gunslinger persona rooted in his rural Pinar del Rio upbringing, he dressed in lace-trimmed black cowboy outfits modeled on his screen idols the Lone Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy. He repeatedly challenged Mickey Mantle to footraces the slugger never accepted, and he served the pitch Mantle drove off the Yankee Stadium facade on May 30, 1956. A Cienfuegos star in Cuba's winter league, Rookie of the Year in 1955-56 and MVP in 1960-61, he was elected in 1983 to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame, by then seated in Miami.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 253 | 3 | 42 | 131 | 50 | 20 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 19 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 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 #562 card?
It is card #562 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Pedro Ramos of the Cleveland Indians.
Is 1964 Topps #562 a scarce card?
It is a high number card from the seventh print series, #523-587, distributed last. Scarcer than the rest of the set but only mildly so - the high premium runs roughly 55-60 percent, far milder than the 1952-62 highs.
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.