1965 Topps #238 Joe Moeller
About Joe Moeller
1965 Topps #238, a plain series-3 card, follows Moeller's most substantial big-league season. He stepped into the rotation on April 28, 1964 after Johnny Podres struggled back from elbow surgery, and from there to June 13 he carried a 2.05 ERA over nine starts, throwing his first complete game in two years on May 29. A left shoulder separated in batting practice on August 26 all but ended his year; he finished 7-13 with a 4.21 ERA, but with career highs of 24 starts, 145.1 innings and 97 strikeouts.
Joe Moeller was a right-handed pitcher who spent his entire major-league career, 1962 through 1971, with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The club signed him out of Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach in June 1960, after his father negotiated a combined $100,000 bonus for Joe and his brother Gary with owner Walter O'Malley; Joe's share was around $75,000. At 6-foot-5 he drew comparisons to Don Drysdale for his build and pitching style. Injury kept undoing him: arm trouble, a separated and then dislocated left shoulder, back and groin problems, and an estimated 60 cortisone shots in fewer than 600 big-league innings. Two seasons, 1963 and 1965, brought him no major-league work at all. He finished 26-36 with a 4.01 ERA and 307 strikeouts in 166 games across eight seasons, then earned a physical education degree in 1977, coached for Cleveland and at USC, spent more than a decade in the Dodgers' public affairs bureau, and scouted for the Montreal Expos and Florida Marlins.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 198 | 0 | 30 | 85 | 45 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 7 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 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 #238 card?
It is card #238 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Joe Moeller of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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.