1962 Topps #336 Billy Muffett
About Billy Muffett
Card No. 336 belongs to the fourth print series of Topps' 1962 set, and it cards Muffett with a Red Sox club that had already sold him off. He reported to spring training some 18 pounds lighter than he finished 1961, then got into exactly one game: April 28 at Comiskey Park, a four-inning start that cost him eight hits, four runs and two walks. Boston sold him outright to Seattle on May 7, so by the time the fourth series reached stores he was pitching in the minors, and on June 27 Seattle sent him and Dave Mann to Atlanta, the Cardinals' Triple-A club, for a young outfield prospect named Mike Shannon. It is the later of his only two Topps cards in this decade.
Billy Muffett was a right-handed pitcher from Hammond, Indiana, who reached the majors with the St. Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, and Boston Red Sox across parts of six seasons from 1957 to 1962. Signed in 1948 out of North Side High School in Fort Worth, Texas, he ground through the low minors for years, missed the 1952 and 1953 seasons to Army service during the Korean War, and pitched winter ball in Puerto Rico and Cuba before he stuck in the big leagues at 26. His best season was his first: as a 1957 Cardinals rookie reliever he went 3-2 with a 2.25 ERA and eight saves down the stretch of a pennant race, though that same September he served up the 12th-inning home run to Hank Aaron that clinched the flag for Milwaukee, a pitch Aaron called the greatest thrill of his career. Muffett finished 16-23 with a 4.33 ERA and 15 saves in 125 games. He then spent 18 seasons as a big-league pitching coach for the Cardinals, California Angels, and Detroit Tigers, earning a World Series ring with St. Louis in 1967 and drawing credit for developing Steve Carlton, Dick Hughes, and Nelson Briles.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 200 | 0 | 7 | 48 | 90 | 39 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 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 #336 card?
It is card #336 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Billy Muffett of the Boston Red Sox.
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.
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