1965 Topps #239 Doc Edwards
About Doc Edwards
Card #239 puts Edwards in a Kansas City uniform in the third series. The A's stint it pictures did not last: he started six games in 1965 and was hitting .150 in 20 at-bats when New York came calling. Elston Howard had chipped a bone in his elbow in April and needed surgery, so on May 3 the Yankees sent pitcher Rollie Sheldon and catcher Johnny Blanchard - who wept at his locker on hearing the news - to Kansas City for Edwards. He caught 43 games in pinstripes, hit .190 with one home run and nine RBIs, and was sent down to Triple-A Toledo in August.
Howard Rodney Edwards (December 10, 1936 - August 20, 2018) was a right-handed catcher from Red Jacket, West Virginia, a coal-mining town near the Kentucky border where his father worked the mines. He earned the nickname Doc during two Navy years as a medical corpsman stationed at Camp Pendleton with the 5th Marines, who call for a corpsman by shouting Doc rather than medic. Discharged in 1957 at 6-foot-2 and 245 pounds, he took a football scholarship to MiraCosta College, then signed a $500 contract in 1958 with Ralph Kiner, the future Hall of Fame slugger then running Cleveland's Pacific Coast League club in San Diego, who ordered him to run five miles a day until the weight came off. Four minor-league seasons followed, including a .331 year for Triple-A Salt Lake City in 1961 that ranked second in the league. Edwards caught parts of five big-league seasons spanning nine years for the Indians, Athletics, Yankees and Phillies, batting .238 with 15 home runs and 87 RBIs in 317 games. In 1970 the Phillies activated their own bullpen coach after both catchers broke a hand in the same inning, and he caught 34 more games at .269. He managed Cleveland from 1987 to 1989 and stayed in the game 57 years.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 222 | 1 | 26 | 126 | 43 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 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 #239 card?
It is card #239 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Doc Edwards of the Kansas City Athletics.
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.