1965 Topps #153 Norm Cash
About Norm Cash
Cash's only card in the set, #153, comes from the second print series. The back reports 1964: .257 with 23 home runs and 83 RBI in 144 games. The glove carried that season. He led American League first basemen in fielding percentage, setting a Detroit record at the position, and was rated among the better defensive first basemen of the decade.
Norman Dalton Cash reached the majors with the Chicago White Sox in 1958 and sat on their 1959 American League pennant winners. Chicago packaged him to Cleveland that December in the Minnie Minoso deal, and the following April, before Cash had played an inning for the Indians, Cleveland sent him on to Detroit for Steve Demeter, who lasted four more major league games. Cash held down first base for the Tigers for the next fifteen seasons. Ernie Harwell hung the nickname on him, borrowed from a Baltimore man of the same name, after a rare flare of temper. He was a five-time All-Star, the 1961 American League batting champion and a World Series winner in 1968, and he later admitted cheerfully to filling hollowed-out bats with cork, sawdust and glue. He was the only American Leaguer to hit 20 or more home runs in every season from 1961 through 1969, led the league in fielding twice and in assists three times, and finished with 377 home runs, fourth most by a left-handed hitter in league history behind Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Lou Gehrig. Detroit released him in August 1974, and he drowned in 1986 after falling from a dock at Beaver Island, Michigan. Cash is in the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, not the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · Baseball Almanac
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 533 | 4 | 63 | 210 | 116 | 64 | 39 | 37 | 0 |
| SGC | 41 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 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 #153 card?
It is card #153 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Norm Cash of the Detroit Tigers.
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.