1962 Topps #174 Carl Willey
Two poses exist, No Cap and With Cap, and each is also found with the set's green-tint printing, for four collectible states in all.
About Carl Willey
Willey's 1961 was his heaviest workload in a Milwaukee uniform: 35 games, 22 starts, 159.2 innings, four complete games and a 3.83 ERA, with little to show for it in a 6-12 record. Card #174 is a second-series 1962 Topps card showing him with the Braves. Collectors chase four states of it, since two poses exist and each is also found with the set's green-tint printing.
Carlton Francis Willey was a right-handed pitcher from Cherryfield, Maine, who reached the majors with the Milwaukee Braves in 1958 after an earned-run title in the Provincial League, two Army years in Germany, and a Most Valuable Player season with Wichita of the American Association. An even six feet tall, with a fastball once clocked at 93 mph, he broke in at 26 and went 9-7 with a 2.70 ERA, led the National League with four shutouts and was named the league's rookie pitcher of the year by The Sporting News. That October he retired all three men he faced in the eighth inning of Game Five, striking out two, in a 7-0 loss at Yankee Stadium; the Braves lost the Series to New York in seven games. A staff fronted by Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette and Bob Buhl then squeezed him out, and after 1962 he asked to be traded. The Mets bought him, and he spent his last three seasons there. Eight big-league years left him 38-58 with a 3.76 ERA, 28 complete games, 11 shutouts and 493 strikeouts. He later scouted for the Philadelphia Phillies and is a member of the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Print variations
Four states of #174 are tracked individually: 174a - No Cap, 174b - With Cap, 174c - No Cap-Green Tint and 174d - With Cap-Green Tint. The difference is on the front of the card (photo pose + green tint + pose 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 174a - No Cap | |||||||||
| PSA | 186 | 0 | 2 | 53 | 73 | 37 | 9 | 12 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 174b - With Cap | |||||||||
| PSA | 137 | 0 | 2 | 34 | 50 | 27 | 13 | 11 | 0 |
| SGC | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| 174c - No Cap-Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 174d - With Cap-Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 73 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 28 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 7 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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. 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 #174 card?
It is card #174 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Carl Willey of the Milwaukee Braves.
Does 1962 Topps #174 have variations?
Yes. Four states are catalogued and tracked separately: 174a - No Cap (Carl Willey without a cap - the base pose (the non-tint pose in TCDB and BCP)), 174b - With Cap (With cap and no tint - TCDB and BCP know this pose only as a tint; PSA registers it plain as well), 174c - No Cap-Green Tint (No cap, green tint) and 174d - With Cap-Green Tint (With cap, green tint). Owning any one of them fills the #174 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.