1962 Topps #347 Chuck Hinton
About Chuck Hinton
1962 Topps #347 is Hinton's recognized rookie card. Topps skipped him in 1961, so this fourth-series Senators issue is his first card, though he had already debuted in May of the previous season. Manager Mickey Vernon shuffled him around the diamond, all three outfield spots plus second base and shortstop, simply to keep the bat in the lineup, and Hinton answered with a .310 average, 17 home runs and 75 RBI, including hitting streaks of 17 and 15 games. He also stole 28 bases, second in the league only to Luis Aparicio's 31.
Charles Edward Hinton Jr. (1934-2013) was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, played three sports at Shaw University, and signed with the Baltimore Orioles in 1956 after hitchhiking to an open tryout at Griffith Stadium. He won back-to-back Class C batting titles at Aberdeen in 1959 and Stockton in 1960, and the new Washington club took him with the 46th pick of the December 1960 expansion draft. A right-handed hitter who eventually played every position except pitcher, Hinton was the first African American player to star for the Washington Senators, and he later spent six seasons with the Cleveland Indians and one with the California Angels. Over eleven years he batted .264 with 1,048 hits, 113 home runs and 443 RBI in 1,353 games, and he remains the last Washington Senator to bat .300. He coached Howard University baseball from 1972 to 2000, leading the Bison to their first Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship, and in 1982 he helped found the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association with Brooks Robinson and two former Washington teammates. He died in Washington, D.C., in 2013 and is honored on the Washington Hall of Stars at RFK Stadium.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 218 | 0 | 3 | 67 | 101 | 36 | 8 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 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 #347 card?
It is card #347 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Chuck Hinton of the Washington Senators.
Is 1962 Topps #347 a rookie card?
Yes - #347 is the 1962 Topps rookie card of Chuck Hinton.
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.