1965 Topps #412 Bob Bailey
About Bob Bailey
Card #412 arrives in the fifth series and reports the sophomore year that quieted the bonus-bust talk. Bailey hit .281 in 1964 with 11 home runs, 51 RBI, 73 runs and 149 hits in 143 games, the best average of his Pittsburgh seasons, and he trimmed his strikeouts to 78 after 98. Facing the enormous Forbes Field power alleys, the dead-pull right-hander made himself hit up the middle.
Robert Sherwood Bailey signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates at one minute past midnight on June 16, 1961, hours after graduating from Long Beach's Woodrow Wilson High School, collecting a bonus reported at $175,000 and a label he never shook. He debuted at 19 in September 1962 and played 17 major league seasons through 1978 with Pittsburgh, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Montreal Expos, the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Red Sox, finishing at .257 with 189 home runs and 773 RBI in 1,931 games. Four years at third base in cavernous Forbes Field never matched the hype, and two more in Los Angeles went worse, but Montreal remade him: a Victoria Day grand slam in May 1970 touched off a 28-homer, 84-RBI season, the best of his career, and he stayed an Expos regular through 1975, adding 26 homers and 86 RBI in 1973. Cincinnati acquired him for Clay Kirby in December 1975, and he was on the Reds club that swept the Yankees in the 1976 World Series. His last plate appearance came as a pinch hitter in Boston's 1978 American League East tie-breaker, a strikeout against Goose Gossage. He died in 2018 at 75.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 274 | 6 | 37 | 151 | 52 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 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 #412 card?
It is card #412 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bob Bailey of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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.