1965 Topps #448 Lee Stange
About Lee Stange
Back in the Cleveland bullpen behind a rotation of Sam McDowell, Luis Tiant, Sonny Siebert and Ralph Terry, Stange still drew 12 starts among his 41 appearances whenever injuries opened a hole, and he handled the swing job about as well as he ever would: 8-4 with a 3.34 ERA, four complete games and two shutouts across 132 innings. His 1965 Topps #448, a sixth-series card, is the first of his Topps issues to show him in an Indians uniform.
Albert Lee Stange, a right-handed pitcher born in Chicago in 1936 and raised in suburban Broadview, spent parts of ten major league seasons (1961-1970) with the Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox, finishing 62-61 with a 3.56 ERA and 718 strikeouts in 359 games. Knee injuries at Drake University, where he never played college baseball, pushed him into pro ball with the Washington Senators organization, and he won 20 games for Class B Wilson of the Carolina League in 1960 before breaking in with the Twins in their first Minnesota season. Listed at 5-foot-10 and 170 pounds, he spent his career fending off front-office doubts that a pitcher his size could start, and shuttled between rotation and bullpen for four clubs, making 125 starts among his 359 appearances. His best year came with Boston's 1967 Impossible Dream pennant winners, where he led the staff with a 2.77 ERA and pitched in the World Series. Known around the game as Stinger, he later worked for decades as a pitching coach and minor league instructor for the Red Sox, Twins and Athletics, helping develop Roger Clemens and Bruce Hurst. He died in Florida in 2018 at age 81.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 296 | 4 | 50 | 154 | 64 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 15 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 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 #448 card?
It is card #448 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Lee Stange of the Cleveland Indians.
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.