1962 Topps #401 AL & NL Homer Kings
On this card: Roger Maris, Orlando Cepeda
About this card
This is one of the eleven combo cards in the set, each pairing two or three players under a headline rather than giving one man his own card - Managers' Dream (#18, Mantle and Mays), AL & NL Homer Kings (#401, Maris and Cepeda) and Rival League Relief Aces (#423, Face and Wilhelm) among them.
The story on this card
Topps called #401 "AL & NL Homer Kings," and the title is literal: it pairs the two men who had just led their leagues in home runs, Roger Maris of the Yankees and Orlando Cepeda of the Giants. Maris hit 61 in 1961 to pass the 60 Babe Ruth hit in 1927, finishing it in the season's last game off Boston's Tracy Stallard. Cepeda led the National League with 46 home runs and 142 RBIs and finished runner-up in the Most Valuable Player voting. Topps had already run both races on its first-series league leaders cards, so this fifth-series meeting of the two champions is the victory lap. It is a combination card.
Roger Maris - the Yankees right fielder who broke Babe Ruth's single-season home run record with 61 in 1961, a back-to-back American League MVP and three-time World Series champion in New York and St. Louis. He is not in Cooperstown. Orlando Cepeda, the Baby Bull, was a powerful Puerto Rican first baseman who won Rookie of the Year with the 1958 Giants and the unanimous NL MVP with the 1967 champion Cardinals.
Sources: Wikipedia (Roger Maris) · Wikipedia (Orlando Cepeda) · SABR BioProject (Roger Maris) · SABR BioProject (Orlando Cepeda)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,007 | 0 | 16 | 121 | 202 | 236 | 165 | 261 | 6 |
| SGC | 310 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 33 | 50 | 79 | 125 | 6 |
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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Related cards
Team cards: #251 New York Yankees Team, #226 San Francisco Giants Team
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- #9 Jim Davenport
- #18 Managers' Dream
- #33 Don Larsen
- #40 Orlando Cepeda
- #71 Dick LeMay
- #107 Mike McCormick
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #401 card?
It is card #401 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Roger Maris and Orlando Cepeda. This is one of the eleven combo cards in the set, each pairing two or three players under a headline rather than giving one man his own card - Managers' Dream (#18, Mantle and Mays), AL & NL Homer Kings (#401, Maris and Cepeda) and Rival League Relief Aces (#423, Face and Wilhelm) among them.
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.