1962 Topps #175 Frank Howard
About Frank Howard
Card #175 sits in the 1962 second series, and it comes two ways: with and without a green tint in the printing, so collectors chase both a no-tint and a green-tint copy of the same number. The season behind it was Howard's breakout. With Gil Hodges and Norm Larker lost in the expansion draft, Ron Fairly slid to first base and Howard finally got 123 starts, hitting .296 with 31 home runs and 119 RBIs and winning National League Player of the Month for July on a .381 average, 12 homers and 41 RBIs. He placed ninth in the MVP voting; the Dodgers lost the pennant to San Francisco in a three-game playoff.
Frank Oliver Howard, born August 8, 1936 in Columbus, Ohio, was one of the most physically imposing sluggers the game has seen, listed at 6-foot-7 and 255 pounds and heavier still in later years. An All-American in both basketball and baseball at Ohio State, he was drafted by the NBA's Philadelphia Warriors but signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1958 for a $108,000 bonus. After The Sporting News named him its 1959 Minor League Player of the Year, he took over in right field and won the 1960 National League Rookie of the Year award; he later homered off Whitey Ford in Game 4 of the Dodgers' 1963 World Series sweep. Traded to the Washington Senators in December 1964, he became the franchise's biggest draw, twice leading the American League in home runs and making four straight All-Star teams from 1968 through 1971. Teammates tagged him "Hondo" in 1958 after the John Wayne film; in Washington he added "the Capital Punisher" and "the Washington Monument." He retired after the 1973 season with 382 home runs and 1,119 RBIs, coached and managed in the majors for most of the next two decades, entered the Washington Nationals Ring of Honor in 2016, and died in 2023 at 87.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Print variations
Two states of #175 are tracked individually: 175a - No Green Tint and 175b - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 175a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 327 | 0 | 8 | 98 | 132 | 43 | 26 | 18 | 2 |
| SGC | 38 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
| 175b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 95 | 0 | 7 | 31 | 26 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 15 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 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. 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 #175 card?
It is card #175 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Frank Howard of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Does 1962 Topps #175 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 175a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 175b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #175 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.