1962 Topps #570 Bill Stafford
About Bill Stafford
Topps opened the year by putting Stafford in its League Leaders run: number 55, a first-series card, ranks the American League's 1961 earned run average men and sets him alongside Dick Donovan, Don Mossi and Milt Pappas. His own Yankees card, number 570, is a seventh-series high number from the back of a 598-card set. The season itself was the heaviest work of his life: 33 starts, 213 innings, 14-9, seven complete games, a 3.67 earned run average, and a ten-inning September 23 duel with Early Wynn that both men finished and that steadied a shrinking pennant lead. On October 7 Felipe Alou drilled a ball off his shin in the eighth inning of Game Three of the World Series; Stafford threw the runner out, stayed in, and finished a 3-2 win over San Francisco.
Bill Stafford was a right-handed sinkerballer who spent six of his eight big-league seasons with the New York Yankees. The Yankees signed him out of Coxsackie-Athens High School in upstate New York for $4,000 in June 1957, and he debuted at Fenway Park on August 17, 1960, in the middle of a three-team pennant race. He grew into the number three starter behind Whitey Ford and Ralph Terry, and in 1961 he finished 14-9 with a 2.68 earned run average, second in the American League. Then came April 10, 1963, and a sharp pain in his right shoulder that the club called minor; it was an undiagnosed rotator cuff injury, and he was never the same. He pitched on in New York through 1965, went to the Kansas City Athletics in a June 1966 trade, and threw his last major league pitch in September 1967. His record was 43-40 with a 3.52 ERA over 186 games, and he belonged to five Yankee pennant winners and two world champions. He worked afterward in sales, coached at a Connecticut college and at the high school level, and settled in Michigan, where he died of a heart attack in September 2001 at 63.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 277 | 0 | 6 | 75 | 98 | 59 | 23 | 15 | 1 |
| SGC | 39 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 |
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
More Bill Stafford in this set: #55 League Leaders
Team card: #251 New York Yankees Team
More New York Yankees cards:
- #1 Roger Maris
- #18 Managers' Dream
- #31 Tom Tresh
- #48 Ralph Terry
- #65 Bobby Richardson
- #88 Ralph Houk
- #93 John Blanchard
- #110 Bill Skowron
- #136 Babe Ruth Special: Babe Joins Yanks
- #137 Babe Ruth Special: Babe and Mgr. Huggins
- #138 Babe Ruth Special: The Famous Slugger
- #139a Hal Reniff
- #139b Hal Reniff
- #139c Babe Ruth Special: Babe Hits 60
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #570 card?
It is card #570 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bill Stafford of the New York Yankees.
Is #570 Bill Stafford a short print?
It is not flagged here. Cardboard Connection lists it as a short print, but Baseball Card Pedia's entry for #570 is garbled, so the two-source rule behind the 42 flagged short prints leaves it as a plain high number.
Why is #570 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.