1962 Topps #270 Dick Groat
About Dick Groat
Card #270 is a plain series-three base card, and its back covers the hangover: Groat hit .275 with 164 hits and 55 runs batted in over 148 games in 1961 while the defending champions fell to sixth place at 75-79, eighteen games behind Cincinnati. It was the only summer from 1959 through 1964 that brought him no All-Star Game appearance, though he stayed the everyday shortstop and his double-play work again led the league.
Dick Groat came to the majors as one of the most decorated two-sport athletes in American sport: a two-time All-American at Duke in both basketball and baseball, national player of the year on the court in 1951-52, and a first-round NBA draft pick who gave the Fort Wayne Pistons one winter. He signed with Pittsburgh in June 1952 and went straight to the big leagues without a day in the minors, then spent two years in the Army before returning in 1955 as the Pirates' everyday shortstop. From 1956 through 1962 he and Bill Mazeroski gave Pittsburgh one of the game's most efficient double-play combinations. In 1960 Groat hit .325 to win the National League batting title, was voted Most Valuable Player, and helped beat the Yankees in the World Series; a trade in November 1962 sent him to St. Louis, where he finished second in the 1963 MVP vote and won a second championship in 1964. He closed with Philadelphia and San Francisco and retired after the 1967 season, a .286 hitter with 2,138 hits and eight All-Star Game appearances over fourteen seasons. The Pirates elected him to their team Hall of Fame in 2023, news that reached him nine days before his death at 92.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 248 | 2 | 6 | 83 | 104 | 25 | 16 | 12 | 0 |
| SGC | 31 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 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 #270 card?
It is card #270 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dick Groat of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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.