1965 Topps #262 Bud Daley
The back gives his birth year as 1933 instead of 1932, and it labels his 1959 season line 1969.
Uncorrected error: Back gives Daley's birth year as 1933, should be 1932, and labels his 1959 line "1969"
About Bud Daley
Card #262 puts Daley back with Cleveland, but he never threw another regular-season pitch for the Indians. He went to their camp in the spring of 1965 and was released, so this third-series card pictures a pitcher whose big-league days were already behind him. The Cleveland line is a bookend anyway: the Indians brought him up from Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League in August 1955 and handed him his debut that September, a scoreless inning of relief at Fenway Park. He finished with a 60-64 record, a 4.03 ERA, 549 strikeouts in 248 games and two World Series rings.
Leavitt Leo "Bud" Daley was a left-handed pitcher who worked parts of ten big-league seasons between 1955 and 1964 for Cleveland, the Kansas City Athletics and the New York Yankees. Born in Orange, California, on October 7, 1932, he grew up in the hills outside San Diego and never played an organized game until he reached Woodrow Wilson High in Long Beach. A birth injury left his right arm an inch shorter than his left and impossible to straighten, so he fielded almost everything backhand. He threw a knuckleball and curves at two speeds, and he chose Cleveland from a crowd of interested clubs because Indians star Bob Lemon was a fellow Wilson graduate. Traded to Baltimore and flipped to Kansas City within three weeks in 1958, he moved into the rotation and won 16 games in both 1959 and 1960, earning All-Star honors in each season. Kansas City sent him to New York in June 1961, and he finished the clinching Game Five of that year's World Series against Cincinnati as the winning pitcher. He died in Riverton, Wyoming, in 2024 at 92.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 244 | 3 | 38 | 119 | 53 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 15 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 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 #262 card?
It is card #262 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bud Daley of the Cleveland Indians.
Does 1965 Topps #262 have an error?
Back gives Daley's birth year as 1933, should be 1932, and labels his 1959 line "1969". It was never corrected, so there is no variation to chase - every copy of #262 reads the same way.
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.