1962 Topps #379 Chuck Essegian
About Chuck Essegian
Card #379, a fifth-series issue, finally shows Essegian with the Cleveland Indians, the club his scattered 1961 ended with after one game in Baltimore and four in Kansas City. Cleveland handed him the steadiest outfield job he had yet held: 60 games, 48 hits in 166 at-bats for a .289 average, with 12 home runs and 35 RBI - more homers than he had managed in his first three big-league seasons combined.
Chuck Essegian was a right-handed-hitting outfielder and pinch hitter, born August 9, 1931, in Boston and raised in Los Angeles. At Stanford he was a twice All-Pacific Coast Conference linebacker, played in the 1952 Rose Bowl, and set an intercollegiate record with 13 home runs as a senior. He signed with Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League in 1953 and debuted for the Philadelphia Phillies on April 15, 1958, then played for the Cardinals, Dodgers, Orioles, Athletics and Indians across six big-league seasons. For the 1959 Dodgers he hit two pinch-hit home runs in the World Series against the Chicago White Sox, a Series record equaled since only by Boston's Bernie Carbo in 1975; he was also the second man after Jackie Jensen to appear in both a Rose Bowl and a World Series. He finished at .255 with 47 home runs and 150 RBI in 404 games, spent 1964 with the Kintetsu Buffaloes in Japan, and later practiced law in Southern California until retiring in 1987.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 225 | 0 | 12 | 101 | 74 | 28 | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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 #379 card?
It is card #379 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Chuck Essegian of the Cleveland Indians.
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.