1965 Topps #147 Dennis Bennett
About Dennis Bennett
Card #147 comes from the 1965 set's second series. It is the first Topps card to show Bennett in Boston flannels: the Phillies sent him to the Red Sox on November 29, 1964, for slugging first baseman Dick Stuart, a deal that angered him because he knew his arm was hurt and believed Philadelphia knew it too. The 1964 line behind the card was the heaviest workload he ever carried, 41 games and 32 starts over 208 innings, finishing 12-14 with a 3.68 ERA. The best of it came in September, when he beat Juan Marichal and the Giants 1-0 in the game he always called his finest.
Dennis Bennett was a 6-foot-3 left-hander born in Oakland, California, on October 5, 1939, and raised in Yreka, a heavily wooded town near the Oregon line. He signed with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1958 for no bonus, spent four seasons in their farm system, and was called up from Triple-A Buffalo in May 1962. A car accident in Puerto Rico in January 1963, on the way back from a winter-league team picnic, killed the driver and threw Bennett through the windshield, breaking his left ankle, his pelvis and his left shoulder blade. He was back in the Phillies rotation by late June, but the shoulder never healed properly and steadily drained the fastball that had made him a prospect. Philadelphia traded him to the Boston Red Sox in November 1964, and he later pitched briefly for the New York Mets and the California Angels, making his last big-league appearance on September 29, 1968. Over seven major league seasons he went 43-47 with a 3.69 ERA and 572 strikeouts in 182 games, with 28 complete games and six shutouts across 863 innings. He pitched five more Pacific Coast League seasons, then settled in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where he ran bars and a restaurant until his death in 2012. He was not elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 290 | 4 | 51 | 144 | 60 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 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 #147 card?
It is card #147 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dennis Bennett of the Boston Red Sox.
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.