1964 Topps #565 Stu Miller
About Stu Miller
Card #565 is a high number from Topps' seventh series, and it reports the season that made Miller the American League's best reliever. At 35 he worked an American League-record 71 games in 1963, led the majors with 27 saves and 59 games finished, cut his ERA to 2.24 and held hitters to .232. The Sporting News handed him a second fireman of the year award, the first man to take it in both leagues, and Baltimore writers and broadcasters voted him Most Valuable Oriole in the same season Steve Barber became the franchise's first modern 20-game winner.
Stuart Leonard Miller pitched sixteen major-league seasons (1952-1968) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, New York/San Francisco Giants, Baltimore Orioles and Atlanta Braves, after the Cardinals signed him for a $100 bonus out of a 1949 tryout camp in his hometown of Northampton, Massachusetts. A slightly built right-hander whose fastball topped out in the mid-80s, he built a long career on changing speeds and a jerky, deceptive delivery that wrecked hitters' timing, and the slow curve that floated to the plate earned him the nickname "The Butterfly Man." He led the National League in ERA in 1958 at 2.47, and 1961 was his only All-Star season, one in which he pitched in both of that summer's All-Star Games. The Giants traded him to Baltimore in December 1962, and there he appeared in an American League-record 71 games in 1963 and posted a 1.89 ERA in 1965 that stood as the Orioles mark for a pitcher of 100 or more innings until 2025. He finished 105-103 with 154 saves, third-most in major-league history when he retired, behind Hoyt Wilhelm and Roy Face. Baltimore put him in the Orioles Hall of Fame in 1989. He died January 4, 2015, in Cameron Park, California, at age 87.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 225 | 4 | 26 | 117 | 52 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 16 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 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 #565 card?
It is card #565 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Stu Miller of the Baltimore Orioles.
Is 1964 Topps #565 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.