1961 Topps #208 Larry Osborne
About Larry Osborne
Card #208 puts Osborne in the third series of the 1961 Topps set, with the Detroit Tigers. The season behind it was spent almost entirely on the bench: 71 games but only 93 at-bats, pinch-hitting duty in 53 of them, 11 games at first base and eight at third. He hit .215 with two home runs and 13 runs batted in, and 20 walks lifted his on-base mark to .354. First base belonged to Norm Cash, who batted .361 to win the American League title, and Detroit won 101 games yet finished second, eight behind the Yankees.
Larry Sidney Osborne, born October 12, 1935 in Chattahoochee, Georgia, played six seasons in the majors for the Detroit Tigers and Washington Senators between 1957 and 1963, mostly at first base and third base. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed, standing 6-foot-1 and 205 pounds. His father, Tiny Osborne, pitched in the majors in the 1920s. Larry graduated from West Fulton High School in Atlanta in 1953, passed up a football scholarship from Auburn and signed with Detroit that June. He appeared in five seasons for the Tigers and one for Washington, 359 games in all, batting .206 with 17 home runs and 86 runs batted in. His best professional season came in between: in 1960 he spent the full year with the Triple-A Denver Bears and won the American Association Triple Crown, hitting .342 with 34 home runs and tying teammate Steve Boros for the RBI lead at 119; he beat Carl Yastrzemski for the batting title by three points and was the writers' unanimous All-Star first baseman. After 1963 he played six more minor league seasons through 1969, then scouted for the San Francisco Giants out of Woodstock, Georgia. He died there on April 15, 2011, at 75. He is not a National Baseball Hall of Fame member.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 303 | 5 | 33 | 138 | 71 | 26 | 21 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 15 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 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 #208 card?
It is card #208 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Larry Osborne of the Detroit Tigers.
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.