1967 Topps #583 Ray Barker
About Ray Barker
Card #583 puts Barker in the 1967 set's seventh series, a high number. The season behind it was his last. Ralph Houk brought him to camp as insurance at first base, where the Yankees were moving Mickey Mantle to save his legs, with Joe Pepitone shifted to the outfield full time and prospect Mike Hegan tied up on Army reserve duty until May. Barker had that narrow window and went 2 for 26, a .077 average in 17 games, making his final major league appearance on May 21. He retired after the 1967 campaign, so this scarce last card was reaching packs late in the summer, after he had already played his last game.
Raymond Herrell "Buddy" Barker was a left-handed hitting, right-handed throwing first baseman from Martinsburg, West Virginia, who played parts of four major league seasons for the Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, and New York Yankees between 1960 and 1967. The Orioles signed him in 1955 out of Martinsburg High School for a $1,000 bonus, and the 6-foot, 192-pound Barker then spent a decade in the minors, never failing to reach double figures in home runs across Triple-A stops at Vancouver, Jacksonville, Rochester, Portland, and Syracuse. He debuted on September 13, 1960 with Baltimore and was sent straight back to Triple-A. Only in 1965, at 29, did he get a real major league job, and he made the most of it in New York before the bat went cold and the playing time went with it. In 192 career games he batted .214 with 68 hits, 10 home runs, and 44 RBI, his last appearance coming on May 21, 1967. Martinsburg High School put him in its first Hall of Fame class of athletes; after baseball he worked as a General Motors security officer and coached his sons' teams. He died in his hometown on May 29, 2018, at 82.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 393 | 3 | 48 | 159 | 99 | 56 | 15 | 13 | 0 |
| SGC | 40 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 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. PSA registers a row for every one of the 624 states; SGC lists no separate row for the #149 white-streak state.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1967 Topps #583 card?
It is card #583 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ray Barker of the New York Yankees.
Why is #583 harder to find?
It is a high number card from the seventh and last print series, #534-609 - the scarce end of the set, holding both Hall of Fame rookies (Carew #569, Seaver #581). Twenty-two of the 76 are accepted double prints, so scarcity varies card by card inside the run.
How many cards are in the 1967 Topps Baseball set?
609 cards, tracked as 624 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 609 without a gap - no number was skipped and none was used twice - and 15 cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, Baseball Almanac, BaseballCardPedia, 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 2026-10-12.