1962 Topps #58 1961 NL Wins Leaders
On this card: Warren Spahn, Joe Jay, Jim O'Toole
About this card
Cards #51-60 are the League Leaders subset, each card listing the 1961 leaders in one statistical category - batting, home runs, ERA, wins and strikeouts - with the American League card first and the National League card second in each pair.
The story on this card
The 1961 National League wins race ended in a dead heat, and Topps put all three principals on one card. Joey Jay, acquired from Milwaukee the previous December for Roy McMillan, went 21-10 with 14 complete games and tied for the league shutout lead with four as the Reds climbed from 67 wins in 1960 to a 93-61 pennant, four games clear of the Dodgers. Warren Spahn matched him at 21-13 for the fourth-place Braves, a fifth straight year leading or sharing the league lead in wins, and at 40 he also took the ERA title at 3.02. Jim O'Toole filled the third slot at 19-9, his 3.10 ERA second only to Spahn's. Number 58 sits in the League Leaders subset of the first series.
Warren Spahn - the winningest left-handed pitcher in baseball history, a Braves ace who won 20 games in 13 different seasons, threw no-hitters at 39 and 40, and was still going 23-7 at age 42. Joey Jay, the first Little Leaguer to reach the majors and one of the original bonus babies, blossomed after a trade to Cincinnati and won 21 games in both 1961 and 1962, pitching the Reds to a pennant. Jim O'Toole was Cincinnati's left-handed workhorse of the early 1960s, a 19-game winner in the Reds' 1961 pennant season who started twice against Whitey Ford in that World Series and started the 1963 All-Star Game for the National League.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject (Warren Spahn) · SABR BioProject (Joey Jay) · SABR BioProject (Jim Otoole)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 418 | 0 | 4 | 95 | 135 | 70 | 51 | 59 | 4 |
| SGC | 71 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 13 | 17 | 19 | 3 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-09-24. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8), and PSA's qualified grades are counted separately from the straight-grade rows shown here. Slabs of the three cards printed #139 are joined by description, never by number alone. PSA registers the green tints as a separate set; a tint's population is listed under that state of the card it belongs to.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #58 card?
It is card #58 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Warren Spahn, Joe Jay and Jim O'Toole. Cards #51-60 are the League Leaders subset, each card listing the 1961 leaders in one statistical category - batting, home runs, ERA, wins and strikeouts - with the American League card first and the National League card second in each pair.
How many cards are in the 1962 Topps Baseball set?
600 cards, tracked as 708 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 598 with no gaps, but three different cards were printed #139 - two Hal Reniff poses, catalogued 139a and 139b, and the Babe Hits 60 Babe Ruth Special, 139c - so 598 numbers make 600 cards; 93 cards carry catalogued print variations, the series-2 green tints among them, that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Baseball Almanac, Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, 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 2026-10-03.