1965 Topps #414 Al Lopez
About this card
This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1965 Topps set - nineteen managers plus #457 Bob Kennedy, the Cubs' head coach in the College of Coaches era.
About Al Lopez
Card #414, from the fifth series, follows the best season any Lopez club had in Chicago: 98-64 in 1964, and still second, one game behind a Yankees team that went 99-63. He got one more year in the dugout, taking the 1965 Sox to 95-67 and another second-place finish before a chronic stomach condition pushed him upstairs to a club vice presidency. The card itself is a plain issue - no subset - printed for what turned out to be the last season of his first Chicago run.
Al Lopez was a Spanish-American catcher and manager born in Tampa, Florida, in 1908, the son of Spanish immigrants who had settled in the city's Ybor City cigar district. He caught 19 major league seasons between 1928 and 1947 for Brooklyn, Boston, Pittsburgh and Cleveland, earning All-Star selections in 1934 and 1941 and retiring with a major league record 1,918 games caught, a mark that stood until Bob Boone passed it in 1987. He batted .261 with 51 home runs; his value was defense and handling pitchers. Lopez began managing at Indianapolis in 1948, took over Cleveland in 1951, and ran the Chicago White Sox from 1957 through 1965 and again in parts of 1968 and 1969. His 1954 Indians won a then-American League record 111 games and his 1959 'Go-Go' White Sox took the pennant, the only two clubs to interrupt the Yankees' run of American League titles from 1949 through 1964. He never had a losing record in 18 full seasons as a manager, and his .584 winning percentage ranks among the best in major league history. Known as 'El Senor' for his Spanish ancestry and gentlemanly manner, he was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1977.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 345 | 4 | 59 | 174 | 67 | 20 | 11 | 10 | 0 |
| SGC | 24 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 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. The two checklist variations, #79 and #508, are listed under the wording PSA uses for each state.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1965 Topps #414 card?
It is card #414 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Al Lopez of the Chicago White Sox. This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1965 Topps set - nineteen managers plus #457 Bob Kennedy, the Cubs' head coach in the College of Coaches era.
How many cards are in the 1965 Topps Baseball set?
598 cards, tracked as 600 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 598 with no gaps and no printed-number collisions, and two checklist cards - #79 and #508 - carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, 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.