1965 Topps #84 Ron Herbel
About Ron Herbel
Card #84 is Herbel's first solo Topps card, a series-one base issue reporting the 1964 season in which he took a regular turn in the San Francisco rotation: 40 games, 22 starts, a 9-9 record, a 3.07 ERA and 98 strikeouts over 161 innings. He completed seven of those starts and threw two shutouts, the first of them on May 17 in his first major-league start, a seven-hit 1-0 win over the Mets in the second game of a doubleheader.
Ron Herbel was a right-handed pitcher who signed with the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent in 1958 out of the University of Northern Colorado, spent six seasons in the farm system, and debuted on September 10, 1963. He pitched seven seasons for San Francisco, took a regular turn in the rotation in 1964 and 1965, and worked almost entirely out of the bullpen from 1967 on. The Giants traded him with Bob Barton and Bobby Etheridge to the San Diego Padres on December 5, 1969, for Frank Reberger; San Diego dealt him to the New York Mets on September 1, 1970, and the Mets sent him to the Atlanta Braves that December for Bob Aspromonte. He finished 42-37 with a 3.83 ERA and 447 strikeouts in 331 games. Herbel is remembered today less for his pitching than his hitting: he batted .029, 6-for-206, the lowest career average in major-league history among players with at least 100 at-bats. He died January 20, 2000, in Tacoma, Washington, at 62.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 330 | 10 | 76 | 151 | 59 | 20 | 11 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 18 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 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 #84 card?
It is card #84 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ron Herbel of the San Francisco Giants.
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.