1962 Topps #182 Bob Nieman
About Bob Nieman
Cleveland kept Nieman into 1962 but gave him just two plate appearances, one out and a run-scoring sacrifice fly, before selling him to San Francisco on April 29. Giants manager Alvin Dark had tried to get him a year earlier and wanted him strictly as a right-handed bat off the bench: Nieman came in as a pinch-hitter in all 30 of his Giants games and hit .300, and his last two major league hits, a home run and a single, came off Milwaukee's Bob Hendley on August 29. His 1962 Topps card, #182, still shows him with the Indians, from the set's second series; collectors chase it in two states, with the green tint and without.
Bob Nieman was a right-handed-hitting corner outfielder who spent a dozen major league seasons, from 1951 through 1962, with the Browns, Tigers, White Sox, Orioles, Cardinals, Indians and Giants. He announced himself on September 14, 1951 at Fenway Park, homering off Mickey McDermott in each of his first two big league at-bats; he is one of only three players in major league history to do it. He batted .295 for his career with 125 home runs, 544 RBI and 1,018 hits in 1,113 games, and his best work came for the Browns-Orioles franchise, where he hit .301 across 609 games. He hit .320 in 1956, was voted Most Valuable Oriole and finished seventh in the American League MVP vote, then hit .325 in 1958, yet he was never picked for an All-Star team. Later he was mostly a pinch-hitter, and eight pinch hits helped the 1962 Giants to the pennant; he drew a walk in his only postseason plate appearance. He closed his playing days in Japan with the Chunichi Dragons in 1963, then scouted for nearly two decades for the Indians, Dodgers, Athletics, White Sox and Yankees. He died in 1985 at 58.
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Print variations
Two states of #182 are tracked individually: 182a - No Green Tint and 182b - Green Tint. The difference is on the front of the card (green tint).
States catalogued by the PSA master set registry; each is tracked here individually.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 182a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 190 | 0 | 1 | 55 | 78 | 39 | 10 | 7 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 182b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 37 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
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. Where a grader registers a variation separately its population is listed under that variation. 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 #182 card?
It is card #182 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bob Nieman of the Cleveland Indians.
Does 1962 Topps #182 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 182a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 182b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #182 slot; the master set counts each state.
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.