1964 Topps #68 Willie Davis
About Willie Davis
A first-series card in the 1964 set, #68 shows a quieter Davis: 156 games in 1963, a .245 average, 126 hits, 60 RBI and 25 stolen bases, with most of the previous season's power gone. October made up for it. His two-run double in the first inning of Game 2 at Yankee Stadium put Los Angeles ahead to stay, and in Game 4 his seventh-inning sacrifice fly brought Jim Gilliam home with the run that beat Whitey Ford 2-1 and completed a four-game sweep, the first of the two World Series he won with the Dodgers.
Willie Davis, born William Henry Davis on April 15, 1940, in Mineral Springs, Arkansas, signed with the Dodgers out of Los Angeles' Theodore Roosevelt High School in 1958, discovered by scout Kenny Myers after a three-sport schoolboy career that included a 9.5-second 100-yard dash. He debuted for Los Angeles on September 8, 1960, and the next season replaced former All-Star Duke Snider in center field, a post he held for thirteen years. Davis led the National League in triples twice, sharing the 1962 lead and winning the 1970 title outright, and his 31-game hitting streak in 1969 is still the Dodgers' franchise record. He helped the club win the 1963 and 1965 World Series, though three errors in one inning of the 1966 Series became his career's lasting blemish. A two-time All-Star (1971, 1973) and three-time Gold Glove winner (1971-1973), he later played for Montreal, Texas, St. Louis and San Diego, spent two seasons in Japan, closed his major league career with the California Angels in 1979 and finished in the Mexican League in 1980. He retired with 2,561 hits, 182 home runs, 398 stolen bases and 138 triples, and his 60.8 career WAR is the highest of any player who never appeared on a Hall of Fame ballot. He died in Burbank, California, on March 9, 2010.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 415 | 0 | 44 | 202 | 107 | 34 | 13 | 13 | 2 |
| SGC | 30 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 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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- #3 1963 National League Pitching Leaders
- #5 1963 National League Strikeout Leaders
- #7 1963 National League Batting Leaders
- #14 Dodgers 1964 Rookie Stars
- #30 Ron Perranoski
- #51 Pete Richert
- #88 John Roseboro
- #101 Walt Alston
- #120 Don Drysdale
- #136 World Series Game #1 - Koufax Strikes Out 15
- #137 World Series Game #2 - Davis Sparks Rally
- #138 World Series Game #3 - L.A. Takes 3rd Straight
- #139 World Series Game #4 - Sealing Yanks' Doom
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1964 Topps #68 card?
It is card #68 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Willie Davis 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.