1964 Topps #21 Yogi Berra
About this card
This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1964 Topps set, one for each franchise. Nineteen are printed Manager; #486 Bob Kennedy is printed Head Coach because the Cubs were still running their College of Coaches.
About Yogi Berra
Card #21, from the set's first series, lists Berra as a manager, the job Ralph Houk handed him on moving up to general manager. A four-game sweep in Chicago in August dropped the Yankees 4 1/2 back and produced the harmonica row with Phil Linz on the team bus; they won 22 of 28 in September, clinched on October 3 and finished 99-63, a game ahead of the White Sox. St. Louis then took the World Series in seven, and Berra was fired within days.
Lawrence Peter Berra grew up on The Hill, the Italian neighborhood of St. Louis, and quit school after the eighth grade. Friends started calling him Yogi after a movie about India, deciding he sat with his arms and legs crossed waiting to bat just like the yogi on the screen. He signed with the Yankees for the $500 bonus the Cardinals would not pay him, spent 1943 at Norfolk, then joined the Navy and fired rockets and machine guns from a six-man rocket boat off the Normandy coast on D-Day. He debuted on September 22, 1946, and gave New York 18 seasons, most of them behind the plate, retiring after 1963 with a .285 average, 2,150 hits, 358 home runs and 1,430 RBI. He was the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1951, 1954 and 1955, was picked for 18 All-Star Games, caught Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, and played on ten world champions, more than any other player in history. He later managed the Yankees to the 1964 pennant and the Mets to the 1973 pennant, the second manager after Joe McCarthy to win one in each league. Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1972, he stayed as famous for his Yogi-isms as for his bat, and died in 2015 at 90.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 2,200 | 3 | 18 | 281 | 427 | 471 | 310 | 684 | 6 |
| SGC | 717 | 0 | 4 | 27 | 88 | 118 | 161 | 311 | 8 |
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 #21 card?
It is card #21 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Yogi Berra of the New York Yankees. This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1964 Topps set, one for each franchise. Nineteen are printed Manager; #486 Bob Kennedy is printed Head Coach because the Cubs were still running their College of Coaches.
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.