1961 Topps #188 Jim Marshall
About Jim Marshall
Series 2 of 1961 Topps gave Marshall card 188 with the San Francisco Giants, and it is a bench player's card: the Giants used him for just 36 at-bats across 44 appearances, with only four games at first base behind Orlando Cepeda and Willie McCovey. He still turned up in the big moments. On April 13 he came on for McCovey late and sprawled to his left in the ninth for a game-saving out in a 12-inning win over Pittsburgh, and on May 17 he batted for Stu Miller with the bases loaded and took four straight balls from Don Elston to force in the winning run against the Cubs at Candlestick Park. He finished with eight hits in those 36 at-bats, and that October the Giants sold him to the expansion New York Mets.
Rufus James Marshall, born May 25, 1931 in Danville, Illinois and raised in Southern California, was a left-handed-hitting first baseman and outfielder who reached the majors in 1958 with the Baltimore Orioles after a long apprenticeship in the Pacific Coast League, where he led the circuit with 31 home runs and 123 RBIs for the 1954 Oakland Oaks and paced it with 188 hits for Vancouver in 1957. Baltimore sold him to the Chicago Cubs on August 23, 1958, and he greeted his new club with three home runs in a doubleheader at Wrigley Field the next day. He set major league career highs in 1959 with 11 home runs and 40 RBIs in 294 at-bats. Over five seasons through 1962 he also played for the San Francisco Giants, New York Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates, mostly as a backup first baseman and pinch hitter, finishing at .242 with 206 hits and 29 home runs in 410 games. He then spent three seasons in Japan with the Chunichi Dragons, hitting 78 home runs. Marshall later managed the Cubs from 1974 to 1976 and the Athletics in 1979, and closed out a long career with the Diamondbacks as a Pacific Rim advisor. He died September 7, 2025 at 94.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 378 | 1 | 12 | 129 | 161 | 46 | 19 | 10 | 0 |
| SGC | 13 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 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 #188 card?
It is card #188 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Marshall of the San Francisco Giants.
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.