1965 Topps #117 Wes Stock
About Wes Stock
In 1965 Stock tried to add a screwball to a fastball, slider, and changeup, and the new pitch pulled his three-quarters delivery out of line and cost him the control that had been the hallmark of his work. The line shows the damage: 0-4 in 62 games with a 5.24 ERA, 96 hits and 18 home runs allowed across 99 2/3 innings. He was still a workhorse - 23 games finished, four saves, and two of the three starts he ever made in the majors. Card #117, from Topps' second series, pictures him in a Kansas City uniform a year after the trade.
Wesley Gay Stock was born April 10, 1934, in Longview, Washington, and grew up in Allyn, where his father ran a combination tavern, grocery, and service station and his mother served as the local postmistress. He graduated from Shelton High in 1952, pitching for the town team, and walked on with the Cougars at Washington State College under coach Buck Bailey before signing with the Baltimore Orioles in 1956 for $4,000. He went 14-6 at Class C Aberdeen, spent two years in the Army, and reached the majors on April 19, 1959. Listed at 6-foot-2 and 188 pounds, the right-hander pitched in 321 games over nine seasons for the Orioles and Kansas City Athletics, all but three in relief, going 27-13 with a 3.60 ERA, 22 saves, and 365 strikeouts in 517 1/3 innings. Baltimore traded him to Kansas City for catcher Charlie Lau on June 15, 1964, and he threw his last big-league inning in 1967. He then coached for decades - pitching coach for the Athletics in 1967, 1973-76 and 1984-86, the Milwaukee Brewers from 1970 to 1972, and the Seattle Mariners from 1977 to 1981 - and was on Oakland's World Series winners of 1973 and 1974 before calling Mariners games on television in 1982 and 1983.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 199 | 0 | 28 | 91 | 50 | 18 | 7 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 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 #117 card?
It is card #117 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Wes Stock of the Kansas City Athletics.
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.