1961 Topps #346 Howie Nunn
About Howie Nunn
1961 was Nunn's one full big league season, and he spent it in the bullpen of a pennant winner: 24 appearances for Cincinnati, a 2-1 record and a 3.58 ERA over 37 2/3 innings, with a sore arm costing him part of the summer. The Reds won the National League by four games over the Dodgers, then lost the World Series to the Yankees in five games; Nunn did not pitch in it. His card here, number 346, comes from the fourth print series. Regular-production cards like this one are the easier half of a Nunn run to assemble.
Howard Ralph Nunn - "Howie" in the record books, "Perry" to teammates who liked his singing voice - was a right-handed pitcher from Westfield, North Carolina, born October 18, 1935. He signed with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1954 as an eighteen-year-old and built a nine-season minor league record of 112-58, including a 23-7 year in the Class C California League, an 18-win season at Johnson City in the Class D Appalachian League and a 16-win year in the Double-A Texas League. He debuted for the Cardinals on April 11, 1959, and St. Louis sold him to Cincinnati after that season; a 1.99 ERA in the Triple-A International League in 1960 put him in the Reds bullpen at Crosley Field the next spring. Every one of his 46 big league games came in relief, and he finished 4-3 with a 5.11 ERA and 50 strikeouts in 68 2/3 innings, his last appearance coming June 7, 1962. He was a teammate and briefly a roommate of pitcher-author Jim Brosnan, and he turns up in Brosnan's diaries The Long Season and Pennant Race. Nunn went home to Westfield after baseball and managed a small machine shop there. He died February 17, 2012, in Winston-Salem at 76.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 315 | 1 | 38 | 146 | 83 | 27 | 13 | 7 | 0 |
| SGC | 17 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 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 #346 card?
It is card #346 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Howie Nunn of the Cincinnati Reds.
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.