1965 Topps #464 Ron Piche
About Ron Piche
Milwaukee traded Piche and Phil Roof to the Angels on October 14, 1964 for a player to be named later, a deal completed in late November when the Braves took Dan Osinski. He did not pitch in the majors at all in 1964, and the move gave him his only American League season: 14 games for the Los Angeles Angels in 1965, 11 of them finished, with an 0-3 record and a 6.86 ERA in 19 2/3 innings. Card #464 belongs to the sixth series of the 1965 set, arriving four years after his first Topps issue.
Ronald Jacques Piche, born May 22, 1935 in Verdun, Quebec, was a right-handed pitcher who worked mostly in relief across parts of six major league seasons between 1960 and 1966. He pitched for the Milwaukee Braves, the Los Angeles Angels and the St. Louis Cardinals, appearing in 134 games, only 11 of them starts, with a 10-16 record, 12 saves, 157 strikeouts and a 4.19 ERA over 221 1/3 innings. His only full major league season came in 1963, when he worked 37 games almost entirely out of the Braves bullpen. Signed by Milwaukee as an amateur free agent in 1955, he pitched 17 professional seasons and went 130-65 with a 2.96 ERA in 500 minor league games. He then spent years with the Montreal Expos as a minor league coach, a ticket-office administrator, the club's bullpen coach in 1976 and its director of Canadian scouting from 1977 to 1985; later public relations work there earned him the nickname Monsieur Baseball. He entered the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988 and died February 3, 2011 at age 75.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 295 | 4 | 49 | 152 | 61 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 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 #464 card?
It is card #464 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ron Piche of the Los Angeles Angels.
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.