1965 Topps #223 Dan Osinski
About Dan Osinski
The Angels shipped Osinski to the Milwaukee Braves on November 29, 1964, completing an October deal that had brought Phil Roof and Ron Piche the other way. Card #223, a series-3 number, already shows the new club, but the back belongs to his last Angels year: 3-3 with a 3.48 ERA, two saves and 88 strikeouts in 47 games, four of them starts. Milwaukee was on its way out of Wisconsin.
Dan Osinski (November 17, 1933 - September 13, 2013) was a right-handed relief pitcher from Chicago who signed with the Cleveland Indians in 1951, at age 17, for $4,000 - the most he could take without being classed a "bonus baby" and stuck on the big-league roster for a year instead of developing in the minors. He spent a decade down there, two of those years lost to the Army, and shared a room with Roger Maris at Keokuk, Reading and Tulsa before Kansas City took him out of the Chicago White Sox organization in the minor-league draft of November 27, 1961. Osinski debuted in the majors on April 11, 1962, at age 28, and was sold to the Los Angeles Angels that July for $35,000 and a player to be named later. A Pacific Coast League sportswriter in Portland had already tagged him "The Silencer," and the name stuck. He pitched for the Athletics, Angels, Milwaukee Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros, finishing 29-28 with a 3.34 ERA, 400 strikeouts and 18 saves in 324 games - an original "fireman" from the years when the relief specialist was becoming a fashionable idea. His last major-league outing came for Houston on April 16, 1970; the final batter he faced, Willie Mays, grounded out.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 199 | 0 | 29 | 97 | 39 | 16 | 12 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 6 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 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 #223 card?
It is card #223 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dan Osinski of the Milwaukee Braves.
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.