1965 Topps #228 Jack Sanford
About Jack Sanford
Card #228, a series-3 issue, covers a season cut in half. In mid-1964 numbness marched up Sanford's right arm from a blood clot, and surgeons spent eleven hours grafting part of a vein from his right ankle into the artery under his armpit. He came back to finish 5-7 with a 3.30 ERA in 18 games, and joked that the patch job carried "a 10,000-mile guarantee at least, I hope."
Jack Sanford, born John Stanley Sanford in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, reached the majors in September 1956, nine years after signing his first professional contract. At 28 he won the 1957 National League Rookie of the Year award with the Phillies, going 19-8 with a 3.08 ERA, a major-league-best 188 strikeouts and an All-Star selection. Philadelphia traded him to San Francisco in December 1958 for Ruben Gomez and Valmy Thomas, and he spent seven seasons with the Giants, leading the National League with six shutouts in 1960 and winning 24 games in 1962. That October, in his only World Series, he shut out the Yankees on three hits in Game 2 and lost the 1-0 Game 7 duel with Ralph Terry that ended on Willie McCovey's liner into Bobby Richardson's glove. He retired in 1967 at 137-101 with a 3.69 ERA and 1,182 strikeouts, coached Cleveland's pitchers in 1968 and 1969, and spent two decades as a country-club golf director. He died in 2000 at age 70.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 255 | 1 | 33 | 147 | 50 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 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 #228 card?
It is card #228 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jack Sanford of the San Francisco Giants.
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.