1964 Topps #43 Roy Sievers
About Roy Sievers
1964 Topps #43 is a first-series card, out early in the year with Sievers still a Phillie on a club off to a phenomenal start. A strained calf and a fading bat held him to 49 games, a .183 average, four home runs and 16 RBI, and on July 16 the Phillies sold him to the expansion Washington Senators for the $20,000 waiver price. It sent him back to the city where he had been the main draw ten years earlier, and he finished the season there as a pinch-hitter, squeezing four more home runs out of 58 at-bats across 33 games.
Roy Sievers was a right-handed slugging first baseman and left fielder from St. Louis who broke in with the St. Louis Browns in 1949 and won the first American League Rookie of the Year award, batting .306 with 16 home runs and 91 RBI. A shoulder he wrecked in the minors in 1951 nearly finished him; surgery at Johns Hopkins and a shift to first base saved the career. Baltimore traded him to the Washington Senators for Gil Coan in February 1954, before he ever played a game for the Orioles, and he became the best bat on a chronically bad club. His signature year was 1957: he led the American League in home runs (42), RBI (114) and total bases (331) while hitting .301, and finished third in the MVP vote. He made the American League All-Star team in four seasons: 1956, 1957, 1959 and 1961. Chicago, Philadelphia and the expansion Senators carried him to 318 home runs, 1,703 hits and 1,147 RBI over 17 seasons. He later coached for the Cincinnati Reds, managed in the minor leagues, and was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame and the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 231 | 1 | 13 | 95 | 87 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 #43 card?
It is card #43 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Roy Sievers 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.