1965 Topps #573 Red Sox Rookie Stars - Jim Lonborg / Gerry Moses / Mike Ryan / Bill Schlesinger
On this card: Jim Lonborg, Gerry Moses, Mike Ryan, Bill Schlesinger
About this card
This is one of the 55 Rookie Stars cards in the 1965 Topps set, each picturing two to four young players - 126 players in all - under a team banner, except #577 and #581, which carry American League and National League banners over players from three clubs. Joe Morgan (#16), Steve Carlton (#477), Jim (Catfish) Hunter (#526) and Tony Perez (#581) make their Topps debuts on these cards.
The story on this card
Card #573 is a high number from the seventh and final series of 1965 Topps, inside the short-print zone, a multi-player Rookie Stars card pairing him with Red Sox prospects Gerry Moses, Mike Ryan and Bill Schlesinger. It is his rookie card. Named one of Billy Herman's four starters out of spring training at 22, Lonborg had a rough rookie year: 9-17, a 4.47 ERA, 185.1 innings, a groundball pitcher behind a leaky defense. Boston's 1967 Cy Young winner and Gentleman Jim, the soft-spoken Stanford product who outdueled Minnesota on the pennant's final day, then threw a World Series one-hitter before knee and shoulder injuries reshaped a career that ran through Milwaukee and Philadelphia.
Moses debuted for Boston on May 9, 1965 at age 18, a bonus baby the Red Sox had to carry or risk losing in the draft. He got only four pinch-hit appearances all year, but one of them was a home run off Jim "Mudcat" Grant on May 25 that made him, at 18 years and 289 days, the youngest Red Sox player ever to hit one; he was sent down later that summer and split the rest of the year between Pittsfield and Winston-Salem. The card is a Red Sox Rookie Stars panel out of the seventh series, a high number inside the short-print zone, and it is his rookie card. He shares it with Jim Lonborg, who was his apartment-mate in Boston that season, along with Mike Ryan and Bill Schlesinger. A Mississippi bonus baby who passed up a football scholarship to catch for the Red Sox, Moses hit .304 in 1969, made the 1970 All-Star team, and then moved through six more clubs before finishing in 1975.
Card #573 sits in series 7, the high-number run at the very end of the 1965 set, inside its short-print zone, and it is his rookie card: a four-player Boston Red Sox Rookie Stars panel Ryan shares with Jim Lonborg, Gerry Moses and Bill Schlesinger. It reached collectors while Ryan was still an extended audition rather than a regular, 33 games and a .159 average in 1965, with the everyday Boston job a year away. A Haverhill, Massachusetts catcher who backstopped the 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox and then caught in Philadelphia through 1973, a light bat with a glove good enough to keep him around, and later a Phillies bullpen coach for 16 seasons.
Topps put Schlesinger on card #573 in 1965, a four-player Rookie Stars panel he shares with fellow Boston prospects Jim Lonborg, Gerry Moses and Mike Ryan. It sits in the seventh and last print series, so it is a true high number inside the short-print zone, and Lonborg's first Topps appearance is here. The season behind it was the one Schlesinger never matched: a .341, 37-homer year at Wellsville had carried him north with the big club out of spring training, and on May 4 he pinch-hit against the Angels for the only at-bat of his major league career. Boston put him on waivers three days later and Kansas City claimed him. Cut by his high school and college teams, "Rudy" Schlesinger slugged his way out of a beer league to one 1965 pinch-hit at-bat for the Red Sox, his entire major league career, before a pitch to the face took 40 percent of his vision.
Sources: Wikipedia (Jim Lonborg) · Wikipedia (Jerry Moses) · Wikipedia (Mike Ryan (catcher)) · Wikipedia (Bill Schlesinger) · SABR BioProject (Jim Lonborg) · SABR BioProject (Jerry Moses) · SABR BioProject (Bill Schlesinger)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 625 | 1 | 51 | 242 | 155 | 91 | 46 | 37 | 2 |
| SGC | 111 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 30 | 24 | 20 | 9 | 2 |
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 #573 card?
It is card #573 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Lonborg, Gerry Moses, Mike Ryan and Bill Schlesinger. This is one of the 55 Rookie Stars cards in the 1965 Topps set, each picturing two to four young players - 126 players in all - under a team banner, except #577 and #581, which carry American League and National League banners over players from three clubs. Joe Morgan (#16), Steve Carlton (#477), Jim (Catfish) Hunter (#526) and Tony Perez (#581) make their Topps debuts on these cards.
Is 1965 Topps #573 a rookie card?
Yes - #573 is a rookie card for every player pictured on it: Jim Lonborg, Gerry Moses, Mike Ryan and Bill Schlesinger.
Is 1965 Topps #573 a scarce card?
It is a high number card from the seventh and last series, #507-598. Unlike most 1960s Topps sets the 1965 highs are not scarce as a run - the premium sits on the short-printed cards inside #523-598. It is also a short-print zone card. Forty-four of the 76 cards in #523-598 were short-printed; #507-522 was not. The zone is stated as a range because the catalogs disagree on exactly which cards, so no single card is marked.
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.