1962 Topps #188 Chuck Hiller
About Chuck Hiller
Card #188 is a second-series issue; second-series copies turn up both with and without a green tint, and the two are collected separately. The season it introduced was the only one Hiller spent as an everyday player: 161 games, 166 hits, 94 runs, 22 doubles and a .276 average at the top of an order built around Mays and McCovey, plus 29 errors, most of any major league second baseman.
Chuck Hiller was a left-handed-hitting, right-handed-throwing second baseman from Johnsburg, Illinois, who spent eight big-league seasons with the Giants, Mets, Phillies and Pirates between 1961 and 1968. Cleveland signed him in 1957 and then left him unprotected, and San Francisco took him in the minor league draft of December 1958 - a bargain that paid off when he was named Texas League Player of the Year in 1960. His college hitting for St. Thomas later earned him a place in the national intercollegiate baseball hall of fame in St. Joseph, Missouri. He was never a big bat, .243 with 20 home runs in 704 games, and his work in the field earned him the nickname Iron Hands, but one swing put him in the record book: a Game 4 grand slam off the Yankees' Marshall Bridges in the 1962 World Series, the first by a National Leaguer. His best average came off the bench, .280 for the 1966 Mets. His playing days ended in 1968, and his baseball life ran another 35 years as a coach, minor league manager and infield instructor, including a ring as a St. Louis coach in 1982. Leukemia took him in 2004 at 70.
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Print variations
Two states of #188 are tracked individually: 188a - No Green Tint and 188b - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 188a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 206 | 0 | 6 | 73 | 97 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 188b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 60 | 0 | 7 | 21 | 19 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| SGC | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 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 #188 card?
It is card #188 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Chuck Hiller of the San Francisco Giants.
Does 1962 Topps #188 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 188a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 188b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #188 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.