1965 Topps #310 Johnny Callison
About Johnny Callison
Callison turns up twice in this set. Card #4, from the first print series, is a League Leaders card stacking the National League's 1964 home run men behind Willie Mays and his 47, with Callison's 31 alongside Billy Williams, Orlando Cepeda and Jim Hart; the back mistakenly gives Mays a New York club instead of San Francisco. Card #310, from the fourth series, is his own Phillies card. He answered in 1965 with 32 home runs, 101 RBI, a career-best .509 slugging mark and a league-leading 16 triples, and he remains the last left-handed-hitting Phillie to reach 15 triples in a season.
Johnny Callison batted left-handed, threw right-handed, and spent sixteen major league seasons with the Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees. The White Sox signed him out of East Bakersfield High School in 1957 and recalled him in September 1958, then traded him to Philadelphia in December 1959 for third baseman Gene Freese, the deal that made his career. Ten Phillies seasons followed, and from 1962 through 1966 he was the idol of the city and its most popular player. He hit an even .300 in 1962, led the National League in triples in 1962 and 1965 and in doubles in 1966, earned All-Star selections in three seasons, and, with one of the decade's great throwing arms, topped the league in outfield assists four years running. His signature moment came on July 7, 1964, at Shea Stadium, where a ninth-inning three-run homer off Dick Radatz won the All-Star Game and made him its MVP; that fall he finished second to Ken Boyer for the NL Most Valuable Player award as the Phillies collapsed down the stretch. He retired with a .264 average, 226 home runs, 1,757 hits and 159 outfield assists, and was named to the Philadelphia Baseball Wall of Fame in 1997 and the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (2)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 275 | 0 | 37 | 127 | 47 | 32 | 18 | 14 | 0 |
| SGC | 24 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 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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Related cards
More Johnny Callison in this set: #4 League Leaders
Team card: #338 Philadelphia Phillies
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- #4 National League 1964 Home Run Leaders
- #20 Jim Bunning
- #36 Bobby Wine
- #52 Ed Roebuck
- #72 Tony Gonzalez
- #107 Phillies 1965 Rookie Stars
- #123 Frank Thomas
- #163 John Briggs
- #184 John Boozer
- #203 Dallas Green
- #225 Bo Belinsky
- #248 Gus Triandos
- #280 Dick Stuart
- #296 Tony Taylor
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1965 Topps #310 card?
It is card #310 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Johnny Callison of the Philadelphia Phillies.
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.