1961 Topps #403 Brooklyn-Boston Play 26 Inning Tie
Front pictures the two starting pitchers from the record 26-inning tie game, Leon Cadore and Joe Oeschger.
About this card
Cards #401-410 are the Baseball Thrills subset: ten event cards recalling famous feats, from Babe Ruth's 60th home run to Harvey Haddix's twelve perfect innings.
The story on this card
This Baseball Thrills card revisits May 1, 1920, at Braves Field, where Boston's Joe Oeschger and Brooklyn's Leon Cadore each worked all 26 innings of the longest game in major-league history. Brooklyn scored in the fifth on Ivy Olson's broken-bat single; Boston tied it in the sixth on Walt Cruise's triple and Tony Boeckel's single. No one scored again. Olson's double play in the ninth killed Boston's best chance, and catcher Hank Gowdy's diving tag ended a bases-loaded 17th. Oeschger set down 18 straight from the eighth and allowed no hit over the final nine innings; Cadore retired his last 19. Umpire Barry McCormick called it for darkness, 1-1. Card #403 belongs to the Baseball Thrills subset in the fifth print series.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR Games Project
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 506 | 0 | 31 | 230 | 135 | 60 | 19 | 27 | 4 |
| SGC | 41 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 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 #403 card?
It is card #403 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, Brooklyn-Boston Play 26 Inning Tie. Cards #401-410 are the Baseball Thrills subset: ten event cards recalling famous feats, from Babe Ruth's 60th home run to Harvey Haddix's twelve perfect innings.
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.