1962 Topps #587 Frank Funk
About Frank Funk
Number 587 sits in the seventh series, the short-printed high numbers that close the 1962 set and are the hardest stretch of it to run down. Behind it was the year that made his name in Cleveland: 11-11 with a 3.31 ERA across 56 games, 43 of them finished, and a team-leading 11 saves for an Indians club that went 78-83 and placed fifth in the newly expanded ten-team American League. Twice that May he worked more than seven innings in relief and came away with the win in a 15-inning game, once against Baltimore and once against Minnesota. His first Topps card had arrived a year earlier.
Franklin Ray Funk, a right-handed pitcher out of Washington, D.C., was born August 30, 1935 and signed with the New York Giants as an amateur free agent in 1954. His road to the majors ran through Toronto of the Triple-A International League, which picked him up before the 1959 season and sold his contract to Cleveland in August 1960. Funk debuted for the Indians on September 3, 1960, and he never started a big-league game: all 137 of his appearances came in relief, and he finished 20-17 with a 3.01 ERA, 150 strikeouts and 18 saves. Cleveland shipped him to the Milwaukee Braves in a November 1962 trade for Joe Adcock and Jack Curtis, and the 1963 season in Milwaukee was his last in the majors, though he kept pitching in the minor leagues through 1969. Coaching filled the decades that followed. He managed in the minors and worked as a big-league bullpen or pitching coach for the San Francisco Giants, the Seattle Mariners, the Kansas City Royals and the Colorado Rockies between 1976 and 1998.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 289 | 1 | 11 | 115 | 110 | 29 | 18 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 35 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 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 #587 card?
It is card #587 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Frank Funk of the Cleveland Indians.
Why is #587 harder to find?
It is a high number card (cards 523-598) from the seventh print series, distributed last and in the smallest quantity - the toughest cards in the set and home to all 42 short prints and the Rookie Parade. It is also a short print card (42 cards, all in 523-598). Printed in smaller quantity than the rest of the seventh series.
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.