1965 Topps #525 Eddie Bressoud
About Eddie Bressoud
Bressoud's lone 1965 card, #525, is a seventh-series high number from the set's short-print zone, and it carries his best year. He hit .293 in 1964 over 158 games with a career-high 86 runs and 41 doubles, and all three of those marks led the Red Sox. He opened that season with hits in his first 20 games, a club record that passed Elmer Smith's 18 from 1922, and Al Lopez named him to the American League All-Star team as an injury replacement for Luis Aparicio, though he never got into the game.
Eddie Bressoud (born Edward Francis Bressoud) was a shortstop who played twelve major league seasons, 1956-1967, with the New York and San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals. A Los Angeles native signed by the Giants out of George Washington High School in 1950, he served in the Marine Corps from January 1953 to January 1955 before debuting on June 14, 1956. Houston made him the first pick of the October 1961 expansion draft and dealt him to Boston that November for Don Buddin, and his bat came alive in Fenway Park: a career-high 68 RBI in 1962, 20 home runs in 1963, and in 1964 a .293 average and the lone All-Star nod of his career. He went to the Mets after the 1965 season and to St. Louis on April 1, 1967, finishing on the Cardinals' championship club before spending 24 years teaching and coaching at De Anza College, where he took over the baseball program that same fall. He retired with a .252 average, 94 home runs and 365 RBI across 1,186 games, 1,002 of them at shortstop.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 380 | 7 | 78 | 215 | 48 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 17 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 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 #525 card?
It is card #525 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Eddie Bressoud of the Boston Red Sox.
Is 1965 Topps #525 a scarce card?
It is a high number card from the seventh and last series, #507-598. Unlike most 1960s Topps sets the 1965 highs are not scarce as a run - the premium sits on the short-printed cards inside #523-598. It is also a short-print zone card. Forty-four of the 76 cards in #523-598 were short-printed; #507-522 was not. The zone is stated as a range because the catalogs disagree on exactly which cards, so no single card is marked.
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.
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