1965 Topps #50 Juan Marichal
About Juan Marichal
Both 1965 Marichals are first-series cards. Card #10 is a National League pitching leaders card that puts him second in wins behind the Cubs' Larry Jackson, who paced the league at 24-11, and ahead of the Cardinals' Ray Sadecki. Card #50 is his own, reporting a 1964 line of 21-8 with a 2.48 ERA, 206 strikeouts across 269 innings and a league-leading 22 complete games, all of it for a Giants club that finished fourth. It was the second of the six twenty-win seasons he put together in the decade, and like the other five it came with an ERA under 2.50 and better than 200 strikeouts.
Juan Marichal, the Dominican Dandy, pitched sixteen major league seasons from 1960 to 1975, all but the last two for the San Francisco Giants. Born October 20, 1937 in the village of Laguna Verde, he learned the game from an older brother using golf balls sewn inside cloth and bats cut from tree branches. Across the 1960s he won 191 games, more than any pitcher in baseball and 27 clear of runner-up Bob Gibson. He won twenty or more six times, every one of those years carrying an ERA under 2.50 and better than 200 strikeouts, and he led the National League in wins twice, complete games twice, shutouts twice and ERA once. He was named to nine All-Star teams and was Most Valuable Player of the 1965 game, leaving eight All-Star appearances with a 0.50 ERA. On August 22, 1965 he struck Dodgers catcher John Roseboro with his bat during a Candlestick Park brawl, drawing a suspension and a then-record National League fine; the two later became close friends, and Roseboro's public forgiveness helped carry him to Cooperstown on the third ballot. He retired with 243 wins, 244 complete games, 2,303 strikeouts and a 2.89 ERA, never winning a Cy Young Award, and in 1983 became the first Dominican-born player elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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 | 947 | 1 | 33 | 217 | 194 | 159 | 128 | 212 | 3 |
| SGC | 241 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 34 | 44 | 61 | 80 | 6 |
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 Juan Marichal in this set: #10 League Leaders
Team card: #379 San Francisco Giants
More San Francisco Giants cards:
- #4 National League 1964 Home Run Leaders
- #6 National League 1964 RBI Leaders
- #10 National League 1964 Pitching Leaders
- #32 Herman Franks
- #68 Del Crandall
- #84 Ron Herbel
- #103 Harvey Kuenn
- #118 Hal Lanier
- #159 Jim Duffalo
- #176 Willie McCovey
- #193 Gaylord Perry
- #213 Jim Davenport
- #228 Jack Sanford
- #250 Willie Mays
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1965 Topps #50 card?
It is card #50 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Juan Marichal 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.