1964 Topps #257 San Francisco Giants
Hall of Famers on the 1963 San Francisco Giants roster: Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey and Gaylord Perry.
About this card
Nineteen of the twenty 1964 franchises have a team card; the Houston Colt .45s are the one club without one.
The story on this card
Card 257 in the 1964 Topps set is the San Francisco Giants team card, its back reporting the 1963 season. Under manager Alvin Dark, the Giants went 88-74 and finished third in the National League, 11 games behind the pennant-winning Dodgers, playing out of Candlestick Park. The roster carried five future Hall of Famers: Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey and Gaylord Perry. Mays hit .314 with 38 home runs and McCovey batted .280 with 44 home runs that season, while Marichal went 25-8 on the mound. The season's signature moment came on July 2, when Marichal outlasted Warren Spahn in a 16-inning pitching duel that Mays ended with a walk-off home run. Card 257 comes from the set's third print series.
Sources: Wikipedia
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 556 | 5 | 70 | 255 | 136 | 46 | 15 | 27 | 2 |
| SGC | 27 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 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 #257 card?
It is card #257 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing the San Francisco Giants. Nineteen of the twenty 1964 franchises have a team card; the Houston Colt .45s are the one club without one.
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.