1962 Topps #71 Dick LeMay
About Dick LeMay
Card #71 in the first series, and LeMay's rookie card, his first Topps issue, picturing him with the San Francisco Giants. It is a plain low number, so the rookie designation is what carries it. Behind the card sits the only real big-league workload he ever got: called up in June 1961, he pitched in 27 games with five starts and went 3-6 with a 3.56 ERA over 83 and one-third innings. By the time it reached packs he had nearly vanished from the staff. He saved an 8-6 win at Crosley Field in his native Cincinnati on April 21, 1962, but threw only nine games and 9 and one-third innings that year for a Giants club that went on to take the pennant.
Richard Paul LeMay was a left-handed pitcher born August 28, 1938, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Withrow High School, attended the University of Michigan, and signed with the San Francisco Giants as an amateur free agent in 1958. He reached the majors on June 13, 1961, and appeared in parts of three seasons for the Giants and the Chicago Cubs, finishing 3-8 with a 4.17 ERA and 69 strikeouts in 108 innings across 45 games. His signature day came June 24, 1961, at Busch Stadium, the only complete game of his career: a six-hit, 6-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals that hung the loss on future Hall of Famer Bob Gibson. The rest of his working life belonged to the minors. He started at the Triple-A level through 1970, reached double figures in wins in six straight seasons, including 17- and 16-win years in 1965 and 1968, and finished 139-124. He managed at the Class A level in the Cubs' farm system in 1971 and 1972, then scouted for the Philadelphia Phillies in the 1970s and the Montreal Expos in the 1980s. He died March 19, 2018, in Kansas City, Missouri.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 261 | 0 | 6 | 79 | 120 | 35 | 10 | 11 | 0 |
| SGC | 19 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 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 #71 card?
It is card #71 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dick LeMay of the San Francisco Giants.
Is 1962 Topps #71 a rookie card?
Yes - #71 is the 1962 Topps rookie card of Dick LeMay.
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.