1961 Topps #367 Jim Rivera
About Jim Rivera
Rivera turned 40 that July, and his last White Sox season barely happened: he made the club as a reserve, then fractured his thumb sliding headfirst into third on his first pinch-running assignment and was released in June, days after coming off the disabled list. Kansas City signed him that same week, and he spent the rest of the year platooning in right field for the Athletics, batting .241 with 34 hits in 64 games before his final big-league appearance on September 30. On Opening Day that spring he had asked President Kennedy for an autograph, then loudly panned the handwriting. The card is 1961 Topps number 367, a fourth-series printing picturing him with the White Sox.
Manuel Joseph Rivera, the outfielder known as Jungle Jim, was born in New York City in 1921 to a Puerto Rican family and raised in Spanish Harlem. After his mother died when he was six he spent nearly a decade in a Catholic orphanage at Blauvelt, New York. He joined the Army Air Corps in 1942; a 1944 court-martial conviction sent him to the Atlanta federal penitentiary, where his play on the prison team caught the eye of Atlanta Crackers owner Earl Mann, who helped win his 1949 parole and signed him on release. Three straight minor league pennants followed, capped by a .352 season and the Pacific Coast League MVP award at Seattle in 1951. He debuted with the St. Louis Browns in 1952 and was traded that July to the White Sox, who had bought his contract from Seattle a year earlier. Headfirst slides, a rifle arm and daredevil catches made him a Go-Go Sox favorite: he led the American League with 16 triples in 1953 and 25 steals in 1955, and he called his home run in the September 22, 1959 pennant clincher at Cleveland his best moment in baseball. In Game Five of that World Series he came off the bench to make an over-the-shoulder catch at the fence that saved a 1-0 win.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 224 | 1 | 27 | 100 | 60 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 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 #367 card?
It is card #367 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Rivera of the Chicago White Sox.
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.