1962 Topps #376 Bud Daley
About Bud Daley
This is the first Topps card to show Daley as a Yankee, and the season it landed in turned him into a full-time reliever. He pitched in 43 games with only six starts, going 7-5 with a 3.59 ERA and four saves for a club that won another pennant. His entire World Series against San Francisco amounted to a scoreless eighth inning in Game Two; in the deciding seventh game he was throwing in the bullpen when Ralph Terry retired Willie McCovey to end it. Daley remembered 1962 as a year he pitched really well, most of it in relief.
Leavitt Leo "Bud" Daley was a left-handed pitcher who worked parts of ten big-league seasons between 1955 and 1964 for Cleveland, the Kansas City Athletics and the New York Yankees. Born in Orange, California, on October 7, 1932, he grew up in the hills outside San Diego and never played an organized game until he reached Woodrow Wilson High in Long Beach. A birth injury left his right arm an inch shorter than his left and impossible to straighten, so he fielded almost everything backhand. He threw a knuckleball and curves at two speeds, and he chose Cleveland from a crowd of interested clubs because Indians star Bob Lemon was a fellow Wilson graduate. Traded to Baltimore and flipped to Kansas City within three weeks in 1958, he moved into the rotation and won 16 games in both 1959 and 1960, earning All-Star honors in each season. Kansas City sent him to New York in June 1961, and he finished the clinching Game Five of that year's World Series against Cincinnati as the winning pitcher. He died in Riverton, Wyoming, in 2024 at 92.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 291 | 0 | 10 | 131 | 90 | 43 | 13 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 26 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 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. 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 #376 card?
It is card #376 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bud Daley of the New York Yankees.
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.