1962 Topps #27 Chuck Cottier
About Chuck Cottier
Washington had Cottier for barely half of 1961 and he still came out of it as the club's everyday second baseman, and that is the year this first-series #27 follows. After the June trade out of Detroit he played 101 games for the expansion Senators, starting 100 of them at second, and hit .234 with 14 doubles, four triples, two home runs and 34 runs batted in. The glove carried him: 233 putouts, 316 assists and 73 double plays in 870 innings at the position, good for a .982 mark.
Charles Keith Cottier was a good-fielding, light-hitting infielder who spent nine seasons in the majors between 1959 and 1969 with the Milwaukee Braves, Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators and California Angels. Born January 8, 1936 in Delta, Colorado, he lettered in four sports at Grand Junction High School - baseball, basketball, football and wrestling - and signed with the Baltimore Orioles organization in 1954. He broke in with Milwaukee in 1959 and found steady work only after a June 1961 trade to the expansion Washington Senators, where he held second base into 1965. He finished with a .220 average, 348 hits, 63 doubles, 17 triples, 19 home runs and 127 runs batted in over 580 games, and an overall .973 fielding percentage. An Achilles tendon injury in May 1969 ended his playing career with the Angels. Cottier began managing in the minors in 1971 and coached for the Mets and Mariners before taking over Seattle as interim manager on September 1, 1984; he managed the club through 1985 and 28 games of 1986, finishing 98-119. He later coached the Cubs, Orioles and Phillies, scouted for the Yankees and served as a special assistant to the Nationals' general manager. He died February 1, 2021 in Edmonds, Washington, at 85.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 237 | 0 | 8 | 93 | 98 | 29 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 16 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 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. 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 #27 card?
It is card #27 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Chuck Cottier of the Washington Senators.
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.