1965 Topps #9 American League 1964 Pitching Leaders - Dean Chance / Gary Peters / Wally Bunker / Juan Pizarro / Dave Wickersham
On this card: Dean Chance, Gary Peters, Wally Bunker, Juan Pizarro, Dave Wickersham
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
This League Leaders card gathers the American League's top winners from 1964: Dean Chance of the Los Angeles Angels topped the league with 20 victories, a season that also earned him the Cy Young Award; Gary Peters of the Chicago White Sox matched him with 20 wins; Wally Bunker of the Baltimore Orioles won 19 in his rookie season; Juan Pizarro, Peters' own White Sox rotation mate, also reached 19; and Dave Wickersham of the Detroit Tigers rounds out the group. The card lists each man's club beneath his photo, tying the board to the American League's 1964 pitching races.
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. Gary Peters - White Sox lefty who needed seven minor-league seasons and four short call-ups before an emergency start stuck in 1963, the year he led the AL in ERA and won Rookie of the Year; he later tied for the league lead in wins. Wally Bunker was a Baltimore Orioles right-hander whose 19-5 rookie season in 1964 made him an overnight star; arm trouble followed, but he shut out the Dodgers in the 1966 World Series and later threw the first pitch in Kansas City Royals history. Puerto Rican left-hander Juan Pizarro pitched 18 big-league seasons for eight clubs and won 131 games, twice an All-Star in his six years with the Chicago White Sox and a Hall of Famer in his own country. Dave Wickersham - a Kansas City Athletics and Detroit Tigers right-hander who won 19 games for the 1964 Tigers and later became one of only four men to play for both the Athletics and the Royals in Kansas City.
Sources: Wikipedia (Dean Chance) · Wikipedia (Gary Peters) · Wikipedia (Wally Bunker) · Wikipedia (Juan Pizarro) · Wikipedia (Dave Wickersham) · SABR BioProject (Dean Chance) · SABR BioProject (Gary Peters) · SABR BioProject (Wally Bunker) · SABR BioProject (Juan Pizarro) · Baseball Almanac (Dean Chance) · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (Wally Bunker) · Baseball Almanac (2) · Baseball Almanac (Juan Pizarro) · Baseball Almanac (Dave Wickersham)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 384 | 3 | 53 | 163 | 96 | 35 | 23 | 10 | 1 |
| SGC | 19 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 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, #572 Baltimore Orioles, #173 Detroit Tigers
More Los Angeles Angels cards:
- #7 American League 1964 ERA Leaders
- #11 American League 1964 Strikeout Leaders
- #26 Bobby Knoop
- #46 Bob Lee
- #66 Bill Rigney
- #85 Willie Smith
More Chicago White Sox cards:
- #7 American League 1964 ERA Leaders
- #41 White Sox 1965 Rookie Stars
- #58 Fred Talbot
- #70 Bill Skowron
- #81 Don Buford
- #89 Mike Hershberger
More Baltimore Orioles cards:
- #1 American League 1964 Batting Leaders
- #3 American League 1964 Home Run Leaders
- #5 American League 1964 RBI Leaders
- #15 Robin Roberts
- #33 Jackie Brandt
- #49 Orioles 1965 Rookie Stars
More Detroit Tigers cards:
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1965 Topps #9 card?
It is card #9 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dean Chance, Gary Peters, Wally Bunker, Juan Pizarro and Dave Wickersham. 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.