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Ray Clark Washburn
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
Born: May 31, 1938, Pasco, WA
Signed: Signed by the St. Louis Cardinals as an amateur free agent before 1960 season
Major League Teams: St. Louis Cardinals 1961-1969; Cincinnati Reds 1970
Ray Washburn pitched for a decade in the majors, enjoying his best season in 1968, the Year of the Pitcher. Washburn joined the Cardinals' starting rotation in 1962, going 12-9 with a 4.10 ERA in 25 starts and 34 games overall. A shoulder injury in 1963 would cost him the better part of two seasons, and he'd return to the Cardinals' starting pitching rotation in 1966, winning 11 games. He won 10 games in 1967, pitching 2 1/3 scoreless innings in that year's World Series as his team downed the Red Sox in seven games. In 1968, Washburn was 14-8 with a 2.26 ERA and 124 strikeouts in a career-high 215 1/3 innings pitched. On September 18th that season, he no-hit the Giants at Candlestick Park, becoming the first Cardinals pitcher to accomplish the feat since Lon Warneke in 1941. Giants' pitcher Gaylord Perry (#193) had no-hit the Cardinals the day before.
Building the Set
March 6, 2022 from The Philly Show (Sports Cards Plus - Cooper City, FL) - Card #582
This is the 98th of 102 cards acquired for our set from the Baseball Card Sports Memorabilia Show, affectionately known as The Philly Show, held in the basement of the Valley Forge Casino Resort in King of Prussia in early March. We went nuts and left the show needing only 12 more cards to complete our 1965 Topps set, and I wrote about the show in detail over at The Phillies Room. After our 51 card haul from Uncle Dick's, and with more card spending budget still in place, I set out to find another dealer with a binder of 1965 Topps cards with reasonable prices. I had purchased cards from Sports Cards Plus before, finding the last few cards needed for our 1971 Topps set from this dealer back in December 2019.
Settling in, we found 37 cards needed for our set with an average price per card working out to around $6. The lot, including this Washburn card, consisted mostly of semi-stars and team cards. After paying for this mini haul, we were officially 13 cards away from a complete set, with one more purchase coming to end the day.
The Card / Cardinals Team Set
The back of the card mentions his persisting shoulder injury as an explanation for his limited usage over the prior two seasons. Manager Johnny Keane (#131) added him to the World Series roster in 1964, but Washburn never warmed up for the Cardinals as they defeated the Yankees in seven games.
1965 Season
Washburn continued his recovery from his shoulder injury in 1965, appearing in 28 games overall and making 16 starts. He was 9-11 with a 3.62 ERA over 119 1/3 innings pitched.
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First Mainstream Card: 1962 Topps #19
Topps Flagship Set Appearances (9): 1962-1970
Most Recent Mainstream Card: 2019 Topps Heritage Real One Autographs #ROA-RW
36 - Washburn non-parallel baseball cards in the Beckett online database as of 10/8/22.
Sources:
Baseball Reference
Beckett Database
SABR
The Trading Card Database
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