1965 Topps #399 Ray Herbert
About Ray Herbert
Gene Mauch had a specific need: the 1964 Phillies rode Jim Bunning and Chris Short to the edge of a pennant and needed a veteran to take starts off them. Herbert made 19 of them among 25 appearances in his first National League season, completing four, and went 5-8 with a 3.86 ERA over 130 2/3 innings - the last real workload of his career. Card #399 belongs to the fifth print series.
Raymond Ernest Herbert was born in Detroit on December 15, 1929, and signed with his hometown Tigers for $4,000 out of Detroit Catholic Central High School, reaching the majors with a complete-game loss at Philadelphia on August 27, 1950. Army service during the Korean War cost him most of 1951 and all of 1952, and for a decade his sinking fastball outran his command: mop-up innings and spot starts for second-division Tigers and Kansas City Athletics clubs, plus two full seasons back in Triple-A in 1956 and 1957. A trade to the Chicago White Sox in June 1961 changed all of it. Pitching coach Ray Berres rebuilt a windup that had been pulling his head and body forward and boring the ball in on right-handed hitters, and Herbert went 48-32 in three and a half seasons in Chicago, including a 20-9 All-Star year in 1962 and a league-leading seven shutouts in 1963. Dealt to the Philadelphia Phillies in December 1964, he closed a fourteen-season, 104-107 career in 1966, then threw batting practice for the Tigers from 1967 to 1992.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 262 | 3 | 64 | 139 | 30 | 20 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 13 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 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 #399 card?
It is card #399 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ray Herbert of the Philadelphia Phillies.
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.