1962 Topps #119 Danny Murphy
About Danny Murphy
Second-series #119 collectors chase it as a pair: the number comes two ways, 119a with no green tint and 119b with the tint, each tracked as its own card. The season it was issued into proved to be Murphy's last as a big-league outfielder - 14 games, seven of them starts, a .200 average on seven hits in 35 at-bats, with three doubles, a triple and no home runs. Those Cubs lost 103 games and finished ninth, ahead of only the expansion Mets.
Danny Murphy, born Daniel Francis Murphy on August 23, 1942, in Beverly, Massachusetts, was the biggest bonus baby baseball had signed to that point. He hit .489 and went 11-0 on the mound at St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers, and the Chicago Cubs signed him on June 15, 1960, following his graduation and two months short of his 18th birthday, for a bonus reported at the time as $100,000 and listed elsewhere as $130,000. Three days later he started in center field at Crosley Field against Cincinnati, the youngest player in the National League and a boy with no professional season of any kind behind him. On September 13, 1960, three weeks past his 18th birthday, he became the youngest Cub to hit a home run. He batted left and threw right, and across parts of three seasons he collected 21 hits in 123 at-bats, a .171 average, before a spring-training trade to Houston in 1963. Six minor-league years and a switch to the mound later he returned as a right-handed reliever for the Chicago White Sox in 1969 and 1970, finishing 4-4 with a 4.66 earned run average and nine saves. He is not a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Print variations
Two states of #119 are tracked individually: 119a - No Green Tint and 119b - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 119a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 202 | 0 | 13 | 61 | 82 | 32 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 119b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 55 | 0 | 5 | 19 | 19 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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. 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 #119 card?
It is card #119 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Danny Murphy of the Chicago Cubs.
Does 1962 Topps #119 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 119a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 119b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #119 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.