1965 Topps #11 American League 1964 Strikeout Leaders - Al Downing / Camilo Pascual / Dean Chance
On this card: Al Downing, Camilo Pascual, Dean Chance
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 11 in the 1965 Topps set is a League Leaders board saluting the American League's top three strikeout pitchers of 1964. Al Downing of the New York Yankees led with 217 strikeouts, edging Camilo Pascual of the Minnesota Twins (213) and Dean Chance of the Los Angeles Angels (207), who also won the Cy Young Award that season. All three names and clubs appear together on the card face. Downing went 13-8 with a 3.47 ERA over 244 innings for a Yankees team that reached the 1964 World Series; Pascual went 15-12 with a 3.30 ERA for the Twins; Chance turned in a league-leading 20-9 mark with a 1.65 ERA for the Angels, a season that included a franchise-record eleven shutouts. The three pitchers came from three different American League clubs, giving the card a cross-team leaderboard feel.
Al Downing was a hard-throwing Yankees left-hander who led the American League in strikeouts in 1964 and made the 1967 All-Star team, later a 20-game winner for the Dodgers - and forever remembered as the pitcher who gave up Hank Aaron's 715th home run. Camilo Pascual - Cuban right-hander whose overhand curveball, learned from Adolfo Luque, carried him from the worst Senators teams to three straight American League strikeout crowns and back-to-back 20-win seasons for the Minnesota Twins. 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.
Sources: Wikipedia (Dean Chance) · Wikipedia (Al Downing) · Wikipedia (Camilo Pascual) · SABR BioProject (Camilo Pascual) · SABR BioProject (Dean Chance) · Baseball Almanac (Al Downing) · Baseball Almanac (Camilo Pascual) · Baseball Almanac (Dean Chance) · Baseball Almanac · Retrosheet
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 290 | 2 | 33 | 126 | 68 | 26 | 17 | 17 | 1 |
| SGC | 14 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 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. 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: #513 New York Yankees, #24 Minnesota Twins, #293 Los Angeles Angels
More New York Yankees cards:
- #1 American League 1964 Batting Leaders
- #3 American League 1964 Home Run Leaders
- #5 American League 1964 RBI Leaders
- #13 Pedro Ramos
- #30 Jim Bouton
- #65 Tony Kubek
More Minnesota Twins cards:
- #1 American League 1964 Batting Leaders
- #3 American League 1964 Home Run Leaders
- #5 American League 1964 RBI Leaders
- #39 Gerry Arrigo
- #62 Jim Kaat
- #90 Rich Rollins
More Los Angeles Angels cards:
- #7 American League 1964 ERA Leaders
- #9 American League 1964 Pitching Leaders
- #26 Bobby Knoop
- #46 Bob Lee
- #66 Bill Rigney
- #85 Willie Smith
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1965 Topps #11 card?
It is card #11 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Al Downing, Camilo Pascual and Dean Chance. 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.