1965 Topps #129 Bennie Daniels
About Bennie Daniels
Card #129 comes out of the second series, an ordinary low number, and it is the last of his five cards in the sixties Topps run. The season matched it for finality: 33 games, 18 starts, a 5-13 record for a 70-92 club, and a final big-league appearance on September 18. Washington sold him that winter to the Pacific Coast League's Hawaii Islanders.
Bennie Daniels Jr. was born June 17, 1932, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and came west with his family to Compton, California, in 1945. He grew to 6-feet-2, starred in baseball, basketball and track at Compton High School, and signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates in July 1951. A Class C start at Great Falls, two years in the Army during the Korean War era, and a long climb through the farm system led to a 17-8 year for the Hollywood Stars in 1957 and a September call-up; his first big-league start came in the last major-league game played at Ebbets Field. On May 23, 1960, his second-inning single off Sandy Koufax was the only hit Pittsburgh managed in a 1-0 loss, and he drew a half-share of the champion Pirates' World Series money that fall. He moved to the expansion Washington Senators for 1961 and won 37 games there across five seasons. Daniels finished 45-76 with a 4.44 ERA and 471 strikeouts in 230 games, spent 1966 with Triple-A Hawaii, and settled back in Compton, where he worked at a Los Angeles county hospital and taught fundamentals to Little Leaguers.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 326 | 9 | 73 | 174 | 48 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 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 #129 card?
It is card #129 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bennie Daniels of the Washington Senators.
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.