1962 Topps #562 Bill Henry
About Bill Henry
Card #562 lands in the 1962 set's seventh series, a high number run off in smaller numbers than the cards in the earlier series. He is still a Red here, and Cincinnati stayed strong in 1962, winning 98 games and finishing third at a percentage nearly identical to the pennant year. Henry's own line fell off: 40 games, all in relief, 21 finished, a 4-2 record and 11 saves, but a 4.58 ERA over 37.1 innings. Those saves ranked second on the staff behind Jim Brosnan's 13.
Bill Henry was a left-handed relief pitcher from Alice, Texas, who starred in basketball and track at Pasadena High School, which fielded no baseball team, and did not pitch in organized baseball until he turned professional in 1948. Four minor league seasons brought him to the Boston Red Sox in 1952, and he spent four years with Boston, three of them split with the high minors, working mainly as a starter. The Red Sox traded him to the Chicago Cubs in January 1957, and after the Cubs converted him to relief he became a National League workhorse, tying teammate Don Elston for the league lead with 65 games pitched in 1959. A December 1959 trade sent him to Cincinnati for six productive seasons: an All-Star selection in 1960, 64 saves as a Red, and two appearances in the 1961 World Series. He moved to San Francisco in May 1965 and pitched until he was 41, closing a 16-year career with brief stops in Pittsburgh and Houston at 527 games, a 46-50 record, 90 saves and a 3.26 ERA. Quiet enough that teammates called him Gabby, he later worked the Houston docks as a longshoreman and entered his Pasadena school district's athletics hall of fame in 2012.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 302 | 0 | 16 | 130 | 102 | 36 | 13 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 33 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 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 #562 card?
It is card #562 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bill Henry of the Cincinnati Reds.
Why is #562 harder to find?
It is a high number card (cards 523-598) from the seventh print series, distributed last and in the smallest quantity - the toughest cards in the set and home to all 42 short prints and the Rookie Parade.
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.