1965 Topps #187 Casey Stengel
About this card
This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1965 Topps set - nineteen managers plus #457 Bob Kennedy, the Cubs' head coach in the College of Coaches era.
About Casey Stengel
Card #187, a third-series issue, is Stengel's last Topps card of the 1960s, and he did not finish the season it was sold in. On July 24, 1965, after an Old-Timers' Day at Shea, the Mets lost 5-1 to Jim Bunning and the Phillies; it was the 3,753rd and final major league game Stengel managed. A fall during his 75th-birthday week fractured his hip and required surgery. Coach Wes Westrum took over as acting manager, and Stengel formally retired on August 30, ending a professional career that reached back 55 years to 1910. The Mets finished 50-112 and last, drawing 1.77 million to Shea, third in the league.
Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel reached the majors as a Brooklyn outfielder on September 17, 1912, and batted .284 over fourteen National League seasons with the Dodgers, Pirates, Phillies, Giants and Braves. His ninth-inning inside-the-park home run won Game One of the 1923 World Series for the Giants, the first World Series homer ever hit in Yankee Stadium, and he homered again in Game Three. Managing came next and went badly for two decades, with the Dodgers from 1934 to 1936 and the Braves from 1938 to 1943, until the Yankees hired him for 1949. New York then won five straight World Series from 1949 through 1953, the only time that has been done, along with ten pennants and seven titles in his twelve seasons. Dismissed shortly after the 1960 World Series loss, he was hired in late 1961 by the expansion New York Mets and managed four last-place clubs before retiring in 1965. His rambling, quotable double-talk became known as Stengelese; the nickname "the Ol' Perfessor" traces instead to 1914, when he helped coach baseball at the University of Mississippi and was designated an assistant professor. The Veterans Committee elected him to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966 as a manager.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 789 | 7 | 72 | 290 | 166 | 124 | 58 | 71 | 1 |
| SGC | 125 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 29 | 20 | 26 | 24 | 2 |
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 #187 card?
It is card #187 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Casey Stengel of the New York Mets. This is one of the twenty manager cards in the 1965 Topps set - nineteen managers plus #457 Bob Kennedy, the Cubs' head coach in the College of Coaches era.
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.