1965 Topps #7 American League 1964 ERA Leaders - Dean Chance / Joel Horlen
On this card: Dean Chance, Joel Horlen
About this card
Cards #1-12 are the League Leaders subset: twelve cards listing the 1964 leaders in six categories - batting average, home runs, runs batted in, earned run average, pitching and strikeouts - the American League card first and the National League card second in each pair.
The story on this card
Card 7 in the 1965 Topps set is a League Leaders card recapping the American League ERA race from 1964. Dean Chance of the Los Angeles Angels topped the league at 1.65, the best mark of his career and the number that anchored his Cy Young season, built on 20 wins and 11 shutouts. Joel Horlen of the Chicago White Sox finished second at 1.88, a career-best mark that also led the majors in fewest hits allowed per nine innings that year. The card pairs the two pitchers by category rather than by team, setting an Angels ace against a White Sox ace to show how tight the American League's ERA race ran in 1964.
Dean Chance was the hard-throwing Angels right-hander who won the 1964 Cy Young Award at 20-9 with a 1.65 ERA, then threw a nine-inning no-hitter and a rain-shortened five-inning perfect game for Minnesota in 1967 on his way to Comeback Player of the Year honors. A soft-spoken right-hander from San Antonio, Joel Horlen anchored the Chicago White Sox rotation through the 1960s with a hard curve and a stingy ERA, throwing a 1967 no-hitter for a club that could barely score him a run.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject (Dean Chance) · SABR BioProject (Joe Horlen) · Baseball Almanac (Dean Chance) · Baseball Almanac · Baseball Almanac (Joel Horlen)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 363 | 3 | 50 | 153 | 84 | 25 | 30 | 17 | 1 |
| SGC | 20 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 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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Related cards
Team cards: #293 Los Angeles Angels, #234 Chicago White Sox
More Los Angeles Angels cards:
- #9 American League 1964 Pitching Leaders
- #11 American League 1964 Strikeout Leaders
- #26 Bobby Knoop
- #46 Bob Lee
- #66 Bill Rigney
- #85 Willie Smith
More Chicago White Sox cards:
- #9 American League 1964 Pitching Leaders
- #41 White Sox 1965 Rookie Stars
- #58 Fred Talbot
- #70 Bill Skowron
- #81 Don Buford
- #89 Mike Hershberger
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1965 Topps #7 card?
It is card #7 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dean Chance and Joel Horlen. Cards #1-12 are the League Leaders subset: twelve cards listing the 1964 leaders in six categories - batting average, home runs, runs batted in, earned run average, pitching and strikeouts - the American League card first and the National League card second in each pair.
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.