1965 Topps #4 National League 1964 Home Run Leaders - Willie Mays / Billy Williams / Johnny Callison / Orlando Cepeda / Jim Hart
On this card: Willie Mays, Billy Williams, Johnny Callison, Orlando Cepeda, Jim Hart
The card's team credit for Mays should read San Francisco, not New York.
Uncorrected error: Back lists Mays with N.Y., should be S.F.
About this card
Cards #1-12 are the League Leaders subset: twelve cards listing the 1964 leaders in six categories - batting average, home runs, runs batted in, earned run average, pitching and strikeouts - the American League card first and the National League card second in each pair.
The story on this card
This League Leaders card recaps the 1964 National League home run race. Willie Mays topped the circuit with 47 for the pennant-chasing San Francisco Giants, his third NL home run crown after 1955 and 1962. Billy Williams followed with 33 for the Chicago Cubs, while Johnny Callison of the Philadelphia Phillies, Orlando Cepeda of the Giants, and Jim Hart, also a Giant, each finished with 31. The card gathers all five sluggers on one design, crediting each man's home club rather than pairing them into head-to-head boxes. It belongs to Topps' first series for 1965, part of the run of statistical leader cards that opened that year's set alongside the individual player issues.
Willie Mays was the Say Hey Kid, the five-tool center fielder of the New York and San Francisco Giants: Rookie of the Year in 1951, Most Valuable Player in 1954 and 1965, twelve straight Gold Gloves, 660 home runs, Hall of Fame in 1979. Billy Williams was the quiet, metronomic third star of the Ernie Banks and Ron Santo Cubs, a sweet-swinging left fielder who won a batting title, a Rookie of the Year award, and once played 1,117 games in a row. Johnny Callison, the Phillies' All-Star right fielder of the 1960s, a left-handed bat and a cannon arm whose ninth-inning three-run homer won the 1964 All-Star Game at Shea Stadium and earned him the game's MVP award. Orlando Cepeda, the Baby Bull, was a powerful Puerto Rican first baseman who won Rookie of the Year with the 1958 Giants and the unanimous NL MVP with the 1967 champion Cardinals. A San Francisco Giants third baseman whose bat carried a shaky glove, Hart averaged 27 home runs a year from 1964 to 1968 and made one All-Star team.
Sources: Wikipedia (Willie Mays) · Wikipedia (Orlando Cepeda) · Wikipedia (Billy Williams) · Wikipedia (Johnny Callison) · SABR BioProject (Willie Mays) · SABR BioProject (Ce0e08ff) · SABR BioProject (Johnny Callison) · SABR BioProject (Orlando Cepeda) · SABR BioProject (Jim Ray Hart) · Baseball Almanac (Willie Mays) · Baseball Almanac (Billy Williams) · Baseball Almanac (Johnny Callison) · Baseball Almanac (Orlando Cepeda) · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (2) · CBS Sports · Internet Archive
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 964 | 3 | 49 | 209 | 163 | 164 | 111 | 255 | 10 |
| SGC | 261 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 35 | 46 | 62 | 108 | 5 |
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
Team cards: #379 San Francisco Giants, #91 Chicago Cubs, #338 Philadelphia Phillies
More San Francisco Giants cards:
- #6 National League 1964 RBI Leaders
- #10 National League 1964 Pitching Leaders
- #32 Herman Franks
- #50 Juan Marichal
- #68 Del Crandall
- #84 Ron Herbel
More Chicago Cubs cards:
- #6 National League 1964 RBI Leaders
- #10 National League 1964 Pitching Leaders
- #14 Len Gabrielson
- #27 Dick Bertell
- #34 Cal Koonce
- #64 Lou Burdette
More Philadelphia Phillies cards:
- #20 Jim Bunning
- #36 Bobby Wine
- #52 Ed Roebuck
- #72 Tony Gonzalez
- #107 Phillies 1965 Rookie Stars
- #123 Frank Thomas
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1965 Topps #4 card?
It is card #4 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Willie Mays, Billy Williams, Johnny Callison, Orlando Cepeda and Jim Hart. Cards #1-12 are the League Leaders subset: twelve cards listing the 1964 leaders in six categories - batting average, home runs, runs batted in, earned run average, pitching and strikeouts - the American League card first and the National League card second in each pair.
Does 1965 Topps #4 have an error?
Back lists Mays with N.Y., should be S.F. It was never corrected, so there is no variation to chase - every copy of #4 reads the same way.
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.