1968 Topps #395 Camilo Pascual
About Camilo Pascual
The Year of the Pitcher suited the 34-year-old. Pascual went 13-12 with a 2.69 ERA, his lowest since 1963, over 201 innings and 31 starts, completed eight games and threw four shutouts, more than in any season since 1962. His 13 wins topped the Washington staff again. It was the last full campaign of a career that had started 15 seasons earlier, and the last time he took a regular turn in a rotation. His 1968 Topps card, #395, comes from the fifth series and catches him in the middle of that final good year.
Camilo Pascual, a right-handed pitcher born in Havana on January 20, 1934, signed with the Washington Senators before the 1952 season after a summer in the Sooner State, Longhorn and Border leagues. He learned his signature overhand curveball from Cuban pitching legend Adolfo Luque, his winter-ball manager at Marianao. Pascual reached the majors on April 15, 1954 and spent five years losing for some of the weakest Senators clubs of the era before breaking through at 17-10 in 1959. He then led the American League in strikeouts three straight seasons, won 20 games twice, and finished a seven-time All-Star. Ted Williams called his the most feared curveball in the American League for 18 years, and the pitch is still rated among the best the game has produced. Across 18 seasons with Washington, Minnesota, the expansion Senators, Cincinnati, Los Angeles and Cleveland he went 174-170 with 2,167 strikeouts and 36 shutouts. Cooperstown never called, but he belongs to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame and, since 2012, the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame. He later served as the Twins pitching coach and spent decades as an international scout, signing talent out of Venezuela and beyond.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 238 | 8 | 68 | 106 | 30 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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. Slabs of the yellow team-letter #49 and #66 are 1968 Milton Bradley game cards and are not counted here.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #395 card?
It is card #395 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Camilo Pascual of the Washington Senators.
How many cards are in the 1968 Topps Baseball set?
598 cards, tracked as 606 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 598 without a gap and no printed number carries two different cards; eight cards - six of the seven checklists, #10 AL Pitching Leaders and #400 Mike McCormick - carry a catalogued print variation that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, Baseball Almanac, Beckett, 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.