1961 Topps #546 Marty Kutyna
About Marty Kutyna
Washington landed him on December 29, 1960, sending catcher Haywood Sullivan to Kansas City, and Kutyna turned into a workhorse for the brand-new Senators in their first season. He got into 50 games, six of them starts, and logged a career-high 143 innings, going 6-8 with three saves and a 3.97 ERA for a club that went 61-100 in its only year at Griffith Stadium. Card #546 is a high number from the seventh series, and high numbers are the hardest stretch of this set to finish. By 1961 he had already pitched in parts of three big-league seasons.
Marion John Kutyna, born in Philadelphia on November 14, 1932, was a right-handed pitcher who came out of the city's North Catholic High School and signed with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1953. He broke in fast, winning 17 games in his first professional season and 18 in his second, but he never reached the majors as a Cardinal: on December 5, 1957, St. Louis packaged him off to the Cincinnati Redlegs in the trade that brought young center fielder Curt Flood to the Cardinals. Kutyna kept grinding through the minors for nearly seven years before he finally debuted on September 19, 1959, with the Kansas City Athletics. He worked almost exclusively out of the bullpen, drawing only six starting assignments in his whole career and never finishing one, and he pitched the entire 1960 season for Kansas City before a trade sent him to the expansion Washington Senators. He closed out his playing days with the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons in 1963, leaving a four-season major league record of 14-16 with a 3.88 ERA, 110 strikeouts and eight saves in 159 games.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 310 | 0 | 15 | 104 | 107 | 51 | 23 | 10 | 0 |
| SGC | 21 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 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 #546 card?
It is card #546 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Marty Kutyna of the Washington Senators.
Why is #546 harder to find?
It is a high number card (cards 523-589) from the seventh and last print series - the scarce end of the set, including the 22 Sporting News All-Stars.
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.