1964 Topps #353 Wally Moon
About Wally Moon
The 1964 Topps run gives Moon #353, a fourth-series Los Angeles Dodgers card. Wearing number 9 for the defending champions, he had shrunk to a bench piece: 68 games, 118 at-bats and a .220 average, the lightest workload of his career to that point. His standing in the clubhouse had not shrunk with it. Elected his club's player representative as a rookie back in 1954, he held that post every year he played, pushing owners on pension money, life insurance and travel conditions in the years before the players association hired Marvin Miller and became a true union.
Wallace Wade Moon was born April 3, 1930, in Bay, Arkansas, the son of a factory worker who later became the town's mayor. Named for football coach Wallace Wade, he was the first in his family to reach college, and he earned a master's degree in educational administration at Texas A&M while still in the minor leagues. Moon debuted for the St. Louis Cardinals on April 13, 1954, homering in his first big-league at-bat while fans chanted for Enos Slaughter, the longtime favorite traded away to make room for him. He batted .304 that season and was voted National League Rookie of the Year over Ernie Banks and Hank Aaron. A left-handed hitter who threw right-handed, Moon spent five seasons in St. Louis before a December 1958 trade sent him and pitcher Phil Paine to the Los Angeles Dodgers for outfielder Gino Cimoli. Advised by Stan Musial, he built an inside-out swing to lift fly balls over the screen in the Los Angeles Coliseum's short left field, and the results were dubbed Moon shots. He won World Series titles in 1959, 1963 and 1965, made two All-Star teams, and won a 1960 Gold Glove in left field. He retired after 1965 with a .289 average, 142 home runs and 661 RBIs, and died February 9, 2018.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 211 | 3 | 28 | 82 | 68 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 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 #353 card?
It is card #353 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Wally Moon of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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.