1962 Topps #574 Dean Stone
About Dean Stone
Passed over by the Mets in the expansion draft, Stone instead landed with Houston, which took him at 31 in the November 1961 Rule 5 draft. He repaid the Colt .45s immediately: a three-hit, 2-0 complete game against the Cubs on April 12, the first shutout in franchise history, then a 6-0 repeat at Wrigley Field a week later. Those were the only complete games he threw that season and the last two shutouts of his career. He went 3-2 in 15 games before Houston shipped him to the White Sox for Russ Kemmerer in late June. Number 574 is a high number from the seventh print series, still listing him with Houston, the club he left that summer.
Dean Stone was a 6-foot-4 left-hander from Moline, Illinois, who first signed with the Cubs, lasted a few weeks in Class C before his 1949 release, then caught on with Washington at a tryout school. He debuted for the Senators in September 1953 and owns a great trivia answer: called into the 1954 All-Star Game in the eighth with the American League behind, he threw out Red Schoendienst stealing home and never retired a batter. The AL rallied to win 11-9 and Stone took the decision, the only All-Star win ever credited to a pitcher who retired nobody. That season was his best, 12-10 with a 3.22 ERA. Over parts of eight seasons he pitched for the Senators, Red Sox, Cardinals, Colt .45s, White Sox and Orioles, about 60 percent of his outings in relief, finishing 29-39 with a 4.47 ERA before a final pro year in Japan with the Taiyo Whales in 1964. He is not in Cooperstown, though the Quad Cities Athletic Hall of Fame inducted him in 2005. At home in Silvis, Illinois, he ran a landscaping business and kept honeybees.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 296 | 0 | 11 | 112 | 125 | 40 | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| SGC | 32 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 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 #574 card?
It is card #574 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dean Stone of the Houston Colt .45's.
Why is #574 harder to find?
It is a high number card (cards 523-598) from the seventh print series, distributed last and in the smallest quantity - the toughest cards in the set and home to all 42 short prints and the Rookie Parade.
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.