1961 Topps #46 American League 1960 E.R.A. Leaders - Frank Baumann / Jim Bunning / Art Ditmar / Hal Brown
On this card: Frank Baumann, Jim Bunning, Art Ditmar, Hal Brown
About this card
Cards #41-50 are the League Leaders subset - the first Topps set to carry one - each card listing the 1960 leaders in one statistical category, the National League card first and the American League card second in each pair.
The story on this card
Topps gave card #46 to the American League's 1960 earned run average race, and the four men pictured finished within four-tenths of a run of one another. Frank Baumann, a left-hander in his first season with a White Sox club defending the 1959 pennant, led the league at 2.67 while going 13-6 with seven complete games, two shutouts and four saves in relief. Jim Bunning was next at 2.79, going 11-14 for a sixth-place Detroit club with a league-best 201 strikeouts in 252 innings. Hal Brown, the veteran knuckleballer on Baltimore's second-place staff, went 12-5 with a career-low 3.06 and the league's stingiest walk rate. Art Ditmar landed on 3.06 as well, winning a career-high 15 against nine losses for the pennant-winning Yankees. It is a first-series card.
A St. Louis bonus baby who signed with Boston in 1952 for a record $86,000, Frank Baumann found his arm with the White Sox and led the American League with a 2.67 ERA in 1960. Jim Bunning was a hard-throwing right-hander who threw no-hitters in both leagues, including a 1964 perfect game for the Phillies, and later served as a US Senator from Kentucky. Art Ditmar - a finesse right-hander whose sinker carried him from a major-league-worst 22 losses in Kansas City to five seasons with the Yankees, where he shuttled between bullpen and rotation and won 47 games. Skinny Brown was a control-first right-hander whose knuckleball made him a winner in his thirties; he went 85-92 over 14 seasons for five clubs and was the veteran mentor to Baltimore's Baby Birds when they challenged the Yankee dynasty.
Sources: Wikipedia (Frank Baumann) · Wikipedia (Jim Bunning) · Wikipedia (Hal Brown) · Wikipedia (Art Ditmar) · SABR BioProject (507e4069) · SABR BioProject (Frank Baumann) · SABR BioProject (Jim Bunning) · SABR BioProject (Art Ditmar) · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (Art Ditmar) · Baseball Almanac (Hal Brown) · Baseball Almanac (2) · Baseball Almanac (Frank Baumann) · Baseball Almanac (Jim Bunning)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 575 | 4 | 51 | 257 | 139 | 57 | 37 | 28 | 2 |
| SGC | 49 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 14 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-09-04. PSA counts are straight grades only; PSA half grades (PSA 1.5 among them) and qualified slabs are not included. SGC half grades fold down (8.5→8). Slabs of the two cards printed #463 are joined by description, never by number alone.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1961 Topps #46 card?
It is card #46 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Frank Baumann, Jim Bunning, Art Ditmar and Hal Brown. Cards #41-50 are the League Leaders subset - the first Topps set to carry one - each card listing the 1960 leaders in one statistical category, the National League card first and the American League card second in each pair.
How many cards are in the 1961 Topps Baseball set?
587 cards, tracked as 596 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 589, but #426, #587 and #588 were never issued and two different cards were printed #463 - Jack Fisher and the Milwaukee Braves Team card, catalogued 463b - and eight cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, The Topps Archives, 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 2026-10-05.