1962 Topps #89 Barney Schultz
About Barney Schultz
The 1962 season was Schultz's first full one in the majors, and it came on a Cubs club that lost 103 games in the second year of its rotating College of Coaches. He turned 36 that August and worked more than ever, appearing in 51 games with a 5-5 record, five saves and a 3.82 ERA, the second-lowest mark among Chicago's relievers. He also tied Elroy Face's major-league record by pitching in nine straight games. Card #89 in the 1962 Topps set is a first-series Cubs card, and it is recognized as Schultz's rookie card.
George Warren "Barney" Schultz was a right-handed knuckleball specialist who signed with the Philadelphia Phillies out of Burlington City High School in New Jersey in 1944, then spent 11 years in the minors, arm trouble keeping him no higher than Class B for six of them. He did not reach the majors until age 28, debuting for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1955. Stints with the Cardinals, Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs followed before a June 1961 call-up stuck; 1962 was his first full major-league season. Traded back to St. Louis in June 1963, he had his career year in 1964: recalled from Triple-A Jacksonville at the end of July, he went 1-3 with 14 saves and a 1.64 ERA over the Cardinals' pennant drive, then pitched in four games of the World Series, including the Game Three loss on Mickey Mantle's walk-off home run. St. Louis won the Series in seven games. He closed a 227-game major-league career, all in relief, at 20-20 with 35 saves and a 3.63 ERA, pitched one more professional season at Tulsa in 1966, and went on to instruct pitchers in the Cardinals' farm system before serving as their major-league pitching coach from 1971 through 1975 and the Cubs' in 1977. He was elected to the South Jersey Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 298 | 1 | 9 | 104 | 127 | 38 | 13 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 17 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
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 #89 card?
It is card #89 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Barney Schultz of the Chicago Cubs.
Is 1962 Topps #89 a rookie card?
Yes - #89 is the 1962 Topps rookie card of Barney Schultz.
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.