1965 Topps #35 Ed Charles
About Ed Charles
Card #35 is a first-series issue with Kansas City. It reports a harder 1964: a .241 average, the lowest of his five full Athletics seasons, with 16 home runs, 63 RBI and 12 stolen bases over 150 games. He stayed the everyday third baseman throughout, and those 16 homers finished one short of the career high he set as a rookie.
Ed Charles signed with the Boston Braves in 1952 and opened his career with Quebec City. With Eddie Mathews at third base in Milwaukee, Charles spent eight seasons in the Braves' farm system, much of it in the segregated South, where he wrote poetry about baseball and racism; 1954 and part of 1955 went to military service. A December 1961 trade sent him to Kansas City with Joe Azcue and Manny Jimenez, and he reached the majors a decade after signing. He never made an All-Star team, yet he left as the Kansas City Athletics' career leader in games played and total bases. Mets pitcher Jerry Koosman called him 'The Glider' for his economy of motion at third. In Game Two of the 1969 World Series he scored the go-ahead run, then slid over to stop Brooks Robinson's ninth-inning grounder down the line and threw to first for that game's final out. He batted .263 with 86 home runs and 421 RBI, later spent decades supervising young offenders for New York City, and is in the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 265 | 0 | 37 | 138 | 58 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 15 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 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 #35 card?
It is card #35 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ed Charles 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.