1961 Topps #107 Seth Morehead
About Seth Morehead
Card 107 catches Morehead a year after the best work of his career. He won a spot in the 1960 Cubs rotation with three one-hit innings against Boston that spring, an outing that included a strikeout of Ted Williams, then went 0-5 as a starter before Lou Boudreau moved him to the bullpen, where he was a different pitcher: 2-4 with a 2.80 ERA in 38 relief outings, including 16 straight scoreless innings. He logged a career-high 123.1 innings over 45 games with 64 strikeouts and four saves. Chicago traded him to Milwaukee on March 31, 1961, so the Cubs cap here was already out of date. It is the only Topps card he has in the 1961-69 run, a plain first-series number.
Seth Marvin Morehead was born in Houston, Texas, in 1934 and grew up in northwest Louisiana, where he became one of the most celebrated schoolboy pitchers the state produced: six no-hitters in his final year at C. E. Byrd High School in Shreveport and a 59-8 record across high school and American Legion ball. Every big league club scouted him, and the Philadelphia Phillies signed the 17-year-old left-hander in 1952 for a bonus reported at $50,000. He reached Philadelphia on April 27, 1957, and closed that season by beating the Dodgers 2-1 in their last game as a Brooklyn franchise, retiring the final 13 hitters he faced. Cincinnati manager Birdie Tebbetts afterward called him the best young left-hander in the National League. The rest never matched that notice: traded to the Chicago Cubs in May 1959 and to the Milwaukee Braves in March 1961, he finished 5-19 with a 4.81 ERA in 132 games over five seasons. A line drive that broke his wrist and a heart attack just short of his 28th birthday ended his pitching career in 1962. He took a business degree from Baylor in 1963, worked in Louisiana until retiring in 1999, and died in Shreveport in 2006.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (2)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 399 | 3 | 59 | 217 | 80 | 26 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 19 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 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 #107 card?
It is card #107 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Seth Morehead of the Chicago Cubs.
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.