1964 Topps #235 Ron Hunt
About Ron Hunt
Card #235 is Hunt's first solo Topps issue, a series-3 card whose back carries his 1963 rookie line: 143 games, a .272 average, 28 doubles, 10 home runs and 42 RBI. Thirteen of his trips to first came by way of a pitch, an early taste of the trade he would make his own -- Casey Stengel had dangled a bonus for any player willing to wear one if it won a game. New York's sportswriters voted Hunt Most Valuable Met that fall, and the prize was an Amphicar, a novelty sedan that could be driven into the water.
Ron Hunt signed with the Milwaukee Braves as an amateur free agent in 1959 and was sold to the New York Mets on October 11, 1962. A right-handed-hitting second baseman born in St. Louis, he won the Mets' second-base job as a rookie and finished runner-up to Pete Rose for the 1963 National League Rookie of the Year award. He was an All-Star in 1964 and 1966 and, in 1964, the first Met ever elected to start an All-Star Game. Traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers after the 1966 season and to the San Francisco Giants in February 1968, he made his living crowding the plate and refusing to give ground on inside pitches, leading the National League in hit by pitches for seven straight seasons from 1968 through 1974 and setting the modern single-season record with 50 for Montreal in 1971. Over twelve seasons he batted .273 with 1,429 hits, and his 243 career hit by pitches stood as a post-dead-ball-era record when he retired. "Some folks give their bodies to science," he said. "I gave mine to baseball." He belongs to the Montreal Expos Hall of Fame, founded the Ron Hunt Eagles Baseball Association for college-bound players in 1987, and died on July 15, 2026, at age 85.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 264 | 2 | 38 | 138 | 58 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1964 Topps #235 card?
It is card #235 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ron Hunt of the New York Mets.
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.