1965 Topps #456 Bill Henry
About Bill Henry
Card #456 belongs to the 1965 set's sixth series and still lists Henry with Cincinnati, a club he had left in early May. The Reds traded the 37-year-old to the San Francisco Giants for left-handed pitcher Jim Duffalo; Henry departed after only three relief outings, all scoreless, with a 2-0 record. He then worked 35 games and 42 innings for the Giants, going 2-2 with four saves and a 3.64 ERA. Duffalo never won or saved a game for Cincinnati.
Bill Henry was a left-handed relief pitcher from Alice, Texas, who starred in basketball and track at Pasadena High School, which fielded no baseball team, and did not pitch in organized baseball until he turned professional in 1948. Four minor league seasons brought him to the Boston Red Sox in 1952, and he spent four years with Boston, three of them split with the high minors, working mainly as a starter. The Red Sox traded him to the Chicago Cubs in January 1957, and after the Cubs converted him to relief he became a National League workhorse, tying teammate Don Elston for the league lead with 65 games pitched in 1959. A December 1959 trade sent him to Cincinnati for six productive seasons: an All-Star selection in 1960, 64 saves as a Red, and two appearances in the 1961 World Series. He moved to San Francisco in May 1965 and pitched until he was 41, closing a 16-year career with brief stops in Pittsburgh and Houston at 527 games, a 46-50 record, 90 saves and a 3.26 ERA. Quiet enough that teammates called him Gabby, he later worked the Houston docks as a longshoreman and entered his Pasadena school district's athletics hall of fame in 2012.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 230 | 2 | 23 | 111 | 69 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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 #456 card?
It is card #456 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bill Henry of the Cincinnati Reds.
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.