1962 Topps #172 Fred Hutchinson
About this card
The set carries nineteen manager cards, including three Hall of Famers: Casey Stengel of the first-year Mets at #29, Walt Alston at #217 and Al Lopez at #286.
About Fred Hutchinson
Card #172 is Hutchinson's manager card in the 1962 set, a second-series number. A second printing of that series, #110 through #196, came out with a green cast to the front photo and slightly different cropping, so #172 exists in two collectible states - on the green tint copies the red stripe down the left border almost disappears. On the field, Hutchinson's defending National League champions lost Gene Freese to a broken ankle in spring training and finished 98-64, third behind the Giants by three and a half games.
Fred Hutchinson was a Seattle-born right-hander who reached the Detroit Tigers on May 2, 1939 as one of the most hyped prospects of his era, bought out of the Pacific Coast League after a 25-7 year for his hometown Seattle Rainiers. He lost four full seasons to Navy service in World War II, returned in 1946 to begin a run of six straight double-figure win seasons, including 18 in 1947 and 17 in 1950, and made the American League All-Star team in 1951. He finished 95-71 with a 3.73 ERA, and hit .263 as a left-handed swinger used often as a pinch-hitter. Detroit made him player-manager in July 1952; he later took the Seattle Rainiers to the 1955 Pacific Coast League pennant, led the St. Louis Cardinals to second place and The Sporting News Manager of the Year award in 1957, and was summoned to Cincinnati in mid-1959, guiding the Reds to the 1961 National League pennant. Lung cancer killed him in November 1964, weeks after he resigned. Cincinnati retired his No. 1, the first number the club ever retired, and elected him to the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame; his surgeon brother created the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle in his memory.
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Print variations
Two states of #172 are tracked individually: 172a - No Green Tint and 172b - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 172a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 259 | 0 | 15 | 79 | 116 | 30 | 17 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 14 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 172b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 72 | 1 | 9 | 22 | 28 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| SGC | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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 #172 card?
It is card #172 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Fred Hutchinson of the Cincinnati Reds. The set carries nineteen manager cards, including three Hall of Famers: Casey Stengel of the first-year Mets at #29, Walt Alston at #217 and Al Lopez at #286.
Does 1962 Topps #172 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 172a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 172b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #172 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.