1962 Topps #411 Danny O'Connell
About Danny O'Connell
O'Connell's second and last Topps card of the decade, number 411 in the 1962 set's fifth series, again puts him in a Washington uniform. The everyday job was gone by then: reduced to a utility role around the infield, he got into only 84 games and 236 at-bats, batting .263 with two home runs and 18 runs batted in. His last time up in the majors came on September 26, 1962, and the Senators released him after the season. He resurfaced in 1963 as player-manager of Washington's Double-A farm club at York, Pennsylvania, was recalled that May to coach first base for the big club, and held that job through 1964 before leaving baseball to sell plumbing supplies in New Jersey.
Danny O'Connell was an infielder who played ten major league seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates, Milwaukee Braves, New York/San Francisco Giants and Washington Senators. A Paterson, New Jersey, product signed by Brooklyn, he was dealt to Pittsburgh after the 1949 season and broke in at Forbes Field in July 1950, batting .292 and finishing third in National League Rookie of the Year voting before two years of Army service during the Korean War. He came back to hit .294 in 1953 behind a 26-game hitting streak, then went to Milwaukee that December in a deal that brought the Pirates six players and $100,000. He was the Braves' regular second baseman until June 15, 1957, when Milwaukee packaged him with Bobby Thomson and Ray Crone to land Red Schoendienst for the pennant drive. As a Giant he scored the first run in the first major league game played on the West Coast, on April 15, 1958. He spent all of 1960 at Triple-A Tacoma, hit .312 there, and took his unconditional release to sell himself to a new expansion club. Over 1,143 games he batted .260 with 1,049 hits, 39 home runs and 320 RBIs. He died in October 1969 at 40, of a heart attack at the wheel of his car near his New Jersey home.
Sources: SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 231 | 0 | 15 | 103 | 76 | 24 | 7 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 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. 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 #411 card?
It is card #411 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Danny O'Connell 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.