1961 Topps #383 Frisco First Liners - Mike McCormick / Billy O'Dell / Jack Sanford
On this card: Mike McCormick, Billy O'Dell, Jack Sanford
About this card
This is one of the eleven combo cards in the 1961 Topps set, each pairing two or three players under a headline rather than giving one man his own card.
The story on this card
Number 383 is a combination card: Topps put three San Francisco pitchers on one front and gave them a nickname. The men are Mike McCormick, Billy O'Dell and Jack Sanford. "Frisco" was the era's shorthand for San Francisco, and "first liners" meant front-line starters, the arms handed the ball first. Each had cleared 200 innings for the 1960 Giants -- McCormick and O'Dell from the left side, Sanford from the right -- and all three were back on the staff in 1961. It belongs to the fifth print series.
Mike McCormick was a teenage bonus baby who led the National League in ERA in 1960, lost his fastball to a wrecked shoulder, then rebuilt himself on a screwball and won the 1967 Cy Young Award for the Giants at twenty-nine. Billy O'Dell was a Clemson-bred lefty who made two All-Star teams with Baltimore and was named most valuable player of the 1958 game, then won a career-high 19 for the pennant-winning 1962 Giants and started Game 1 of that World Series. Jack Sanford was the Phillies' 1957 National League Rookie of the Year and later the Giants' ace, winning 24 games with 16 straight decisions in 1962 and shutting out the Yankees in Game 2 of that World Series.
Sources: Wikipedia (Billy O'Dell) · Wikipedia (Jack Sanford) · Wikipedia (Mike McCormick (pitcher)) · SABR BioProject (Mike Mccormick) · SABR BioProject (Billy Odell) · SABR BioProject (Jack Sanford 2) · SABR Games Project · SABR · Baseball Almanac (Mike McCormick) · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (2) · Baseball Almanac (Jack Sanford) · Baseball Almanac (3) · Baseball Almanac (4)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 336 | 0 | 7 | 108 | 155 | 38 | 15 | 10 | 3 |
| SGC | 13 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
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 #383 card?
It is card #383 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Mike McCormick, Billy O'Dell and Jack Sanford. This is one of the eleven combo cards in the 1961 Topps set, each pairing two or three players under a headline rather than giving one man his own card.
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.