1965 Topps #152 Phil Ortega
About Phil Ortega
Washington got Ortega in the December 1964 trade and gave him the ball for the Presidential Opener on April 12, 1965, a 7-2 loss to Boston at D.C. Stadium. He made 29 starts among 35 appearances for Gil Hodges' eighth-place, 70-92 club, going 12-15 with a 5.11 ERA and a career-worst 97 walks; the best of it was a three-hit, 8-0 shutout at Detroit on July 19. Card #152 is a 1965 Topps second-series number - but it is the first Topps card to show him in a Senators uniform.
Phil Ortega, born Filomeno Coronada Ortega on October 7, 1939 in Gilbert, Arizona, was a 6-foot-2 right-handed pitcher who appeared in 204 major league games over all or parts of ten seasons from 1960 through 1969. He graduated from Mesa High School in 1959 and signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers that year as an amateur free agent for a $75,000 bonus, going straight to Triple-A Spokane. After four seasons of shuttling between Los Angeles and the minors he claimed a rotation spot in 1964. That December the Dodgers packaged him with Frank Howard, Ken McMullen and Pete Richert and sent them to the Washington Senators for Claude Osteen, John Kennedy and $100,000, with Dick Nen completing the deal on December 15. In Washington he pitched for former Dodger teammate Gil Hodges and made 94 starts across three seasons, peaking in 1967. The Senators sold his contract to the California Angels in April 1969, and he made his final big-league appearance that May 4. He finished 46-62 with a 4.43 ERA, 549 strikeouts, 20 complete games and nine shutouts in 951-2/3 innings, then pitched in the minors through 1972.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 358 | 7 | 73 | 192 | 52 | 14 | 15 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 21 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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 #152 card?
It is card #152 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Phil Ortega of the Washington Senators.
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.