1962 Topps #24 Detroit Tigers Team
Hall of Famers on the 1961 Detroit Tigers roster: Jim Bunning and Al Kaline.
About this card
This is one of the eighteen team cards in the set. Neither 1962 expansion club, the New York Mets or the Houston Colt .45s, has one.
The story on this card
Card 24 is the Detroit Tigers team card in the 1962 Topps first series, a club portrait inside the set's peeling-sticker wood-grain border. It reports the 1961 Tigers, who won 101 games to match the 1934 franchise record and still finished second, eight games behind the pennant-winning Yankees; they led the league until July 25 before a three-game sweep at Yankee Stadium in September ended it. Norm Cash took the batting title at .361 with 41 homers and 132 RBIs, Rocky Colavito hit 45 and drove in 140, and Hall of Famer Al Kaline batted .324 with a league-best 41 doubles. Frank Lary went 23-9 with an AL-high 22 complete games, and fellow Hall of Famer Jim Bunning was 17-11. Bob Scheffing's first Detroit club led the league in runs and played at newly renamed Tiger Stadium.
Sources: Wikipedia (1961 Detroit Tigers season) · Wikipedia (Bob Scheffing) · Wikipedia (Al Kaline)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 343 | 0 | 16 | 119 | 111 | 51 | 30 | 15 | 1 |
| SGC | 31 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
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 #24 card?
It is card #24 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing the Detroit Tigers. This is one of the eighteen team cards in the set. Neither 1962 expansion club, the New York Mets or the Houston Colt .45s, has one.
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.