1962 Topps #189 Dick Hall
About Dick Hall
Hall trimmed his ERA to 2.28 across 43 outings in 1962, six of them starts and 118 1/3 innings in all, with Hoyt Wilhelm still taking the late outs behind him. Card #189 lands in the second print series, the run Topps ordered a second time from a different plant when demand outran the first order. The magenta separation on that reprint went wrong, which is why the series is famous for its green tints: on those copies the photograph and the wood-grain frame pick up a lime-olive cast. So #189 comes two ways, tinted and untinted.
Richard Wallace Hall was born September 27, 1930, in St. Louis, grew up mostly in New Jersey and around Baltimore, and left Swarthmore College with an economics degree and eleven letters in five sports. Branch Rickey signed him as a hitter, and Hall broke in as a Pittsburgh outfielder in 1952; handed a regular outfield job in 1954, he batted .239, and in 1955 he began the move to the mound, pitching only from 1957 on. He hurt his arm on a knuckleball Rickey had suggested, and the sore arm plus a bout of hepatitis cost him most of 1957 and all of 1958, but he returned to win the 1959 Pacific Coast League MVP award. Traded to Kansas City that December and to Baltimore in April 1961, the 6-foot-6 right-hander turned into one of the game's great control artists, nicknamed Turkey for his odd pitching motion. He was an Oriole through 1966, a Phillie in 1967 and 1968, and an Oriole again from 1969 through 1971, a World Series winner in 1966, when a bad elbow kept him out of the games, and in 1970, when he saved Game Two. A working accountant and CPA, Hall joined the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame in 1989 and died in 2023 at 92.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Print variations
Two states of #189 are tracked individually: 189a - No Green Tint and 189b - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 189a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 167 | 0 | 1 | 47 | 81 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 189b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 51 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 22 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 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. 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 #189 card?
It is card #189 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dick Hall of the Baltimore Orioles.
Does 1962 Topps #189 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 189a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 189b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #189 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.