1965 Topps #406 Ralph Terry
About Ralph Terry
#406 is a fifth-series card from Terry's lone season in Cleveland. He started fast for the Indians, winning four of his first five starts with three complete games, and on May 5 he beat Whitey Ford and his old Yankees teammates 4-0 on a three-hitter that took him only 70 pitches, dropping his ERA to 1.66. He was 9-3 at the All-Star break but was not picked for the game, and both he and the Tribe cooled off after it: 11-6 with a 3.69 ERA and six complete games in 30 appearances, 26 of them starts, with Cleveland fifth in the league.
Ralph Terry, a right-handed pitcher from Big Cabin, Oklahoma, spent twelve big-league seasons (1956-1967) with the Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Cleveland Indians and Mets, finishing 107-99 with a 3.62 ERA, 75 complete games, 20 shutouts and exactly 1,000 strikeouts. The Yankees signed him in November 1953, months after he graduated as salutatorian at Chelsea High School in Oklahoma; a detour to Kansas City took him away in 1957, and he was back in New York by 1959 to pitch through five straight pennants from 1960 to 1964. His signature moment came in Game Seven of the 1962 World Series, when he threw a complete-game 1-0 shutout at Candlestick Park against the Giants, the contest ending on Bobby Richardson's catch of Willie McCovey's line drive; he was named World Series MVP after also winning Game Five. It was redemption of a sort - two years earlier he had surrendered Bill Mazeroski's Game Seven walk-off home run that gave Pittsburgh the 1960 title. He was never elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, though he belongs to both the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame and the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. After baseball he turned professional golfer, won the 1980 Midwest PGA Championship and later played the Senior PGA Tour. He died in Larned, Kansas, in March 2022 at 86.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 258 | 3 | 43 | 132 | 57 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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 #406 card?
It is card #406 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ralph Terry 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.