1964 Topps #131 Steve Boros
About Steve Boros
The second-series card at number 131 was already stale when it hit the counter, still showing Boros in Cubs flannels: Cincinnati had bought him from Chicago in December 1963 for an undisclosed sum and parked him at San Diego in the Pacific Coast League. Fred Hutchinson recalled him in May as promised, and Boros held third base the rest of the way, starting 113 games and batting .257 with a .342 on-base percentage. He also reeled off 50 straight errorless games at the position, erasing Heinie Groh's 1920 Cincinnati record of 47, and credited the improvement to studying Ron Santo, the best third baseman he said he had ever seen. He called that streak his biggest thrill in baseball.
Steve Boros grew up in Flint, Michigan, the eldest of five children in a Hungarian-American family; his father had arrived from Hungary alone as a teenager, and his parents opened a small grocery in 1946, with the family living above the store. He played football, basketball and baseball at Flint Northern High School, then hit .324 and .381 in two varsity seasons at the University of Michigan and was an All-Big Ten third baseman in 1957. Teammates elected him captain for the following year, but that June he signed with the Detroit Tigers for a $25,000 bonus, finishing a bachelor's degree in English at odd hours between seasons. He played all or parts of seven major league seasons at third base for the Tigers, Cubs and Reds, batting .245 with 26 home runs and 149 RBIs. His life in the game ran close to fifty years in all: minor league manager, base-stealing instructor, big-league coach, manager of the Athletics and the Padres, then scout and executive, closing with Detroit in 2004. He died in 2010.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 267 | 4 | 42 | 124 | 49 | 25 | 13 | 10 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 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 #131 card?
It is card #131 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Steve Boros of the Chicago Cubs.
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.