1961 Topps #389 Ralph Terry
About Ralph Terry
The 1961 Topps #389 is a fifth-series card, and it caught Terry in the middle of the best regular season he had put together to that point: 16-3, a winning percentage of .842 and a 3.15 ERA across 31 games and 27 starts for a Yankees club that went 109-53. New York took the pennant and beat Cincinnati in five games for the title, Terry's first championship ring; he drew two World Series starts and came away 0-1 with a 4.82 ERA. His rookie card is the 1957 Topps #391.
Ralph Terry, a right-handed pitcher from Big Cabin, Oklahoma, spent twelve big-league seasons (1956-1967) with the Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Cleveland Indians and Mets, finishing 107-99 with a 3.62 ERA, 75 complete games, 20 shutouts and exactly 1,000 strikeouts. The Yankees signed him in November 1953, months after he graduated as salutatorian at Chelsea High School in Oklahoma; a detour to Kansas City took him away in 1957, and he was back in New York by 1959 to pitch through five straight pennants from 1960 to 1964. His signature moment came in Game Seven of the 1962 World Series, when he threw a complete-game 1-0 shutout at Candlestick Park against the Giants, the contest ending on Bobby Richardson's catch of Willie McCovey's line drive; he was named World Series MVP after also winning Game Five. It was redemption of a sort - two years earlier he had surrendered Bill Mazeroski's Game Seven walk-off home run that gave Pittsburgh the 1960 title. He was never elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, though he belongs to both the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame and the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. After baseball he turned professional golfer, won the 1980 Midwest PGA Championship and later played the Senior PGA Tour. He died in Larned, Kansas, in March 2022 at 86.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 374 | 1 | 15 | 114 | 126 | 75 | 25 | 18 | 0 |
| SGC | 17 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
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 #389 card?
It is card #389 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ralph Terry of the New York Yankees.
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.