1962 Topps #385 Early Wynn
About Early Wynn
Card #385 is a print-series-5 issue. It carries the oddest line of Wynn's career: at 41 in 1961 he went 8-2, the best winning percentage of any season he pitched, with a 3.51 ERA and 64 strikeouts, yet only 16 starts and 110 and a third innings. Gout, a problem since 1950, brought the arm soreness that ended his year in July. He had closed 1960 on 284 wins and was openly chasing 300.
Early Wynn pitched 23 major-league seasons between 1939 and 1963 for the Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox, finishing 300-244 with a 3.54 ERA and 2,334 strikeouts. Washington sent him to Cleveland with Mickey Vernon after the 1948 season for Joe Haynes, Ed Klieman and Eddie Robinson, and there pitching coach Mel Harder added a curveball, slider and knuckleball to a fastball that had been almost his whole arsenal. Wynn led the American League with a 3.20 ERA in 1950, won 20 or more games four times in Cleveland alongside Bob Feller, Bob Lemon and Mike Garcia, and started Game 2 of the World Series for the 1954 club that set an American League record with 111 wins. Traded to the White Sox after the 1957 season, he won the 1959 Cy Young Award at 39 with a league-best 22 victories and pitched Chicago to its first pennant since 1919, opening that World Series with seven scoreless innings in an 11-0 rout of the Dodgers. Released after 1962 sitting on 299 wins, he signed with Cleveland in June 1963 and at 43 became the 14th pitcher to reach 300. A nine-time All-Star and one of the most intimidating men in the game, Wynn entered the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 715 | 0 | 21 | 201 | 233 | 136 | 58 | 64 | 2 |
| SGC | 97 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 25 | 18 | 25 | 12 | 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 #385 card?
It is card #385 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Early Wynn of the Chicago White Sox.
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.