1962 Topps #139a Hal Reniff
The portrait pose, one of two distinct Hal Reniff cards printed with number 139, and the pose catalogues letter 139a. Reniff was also issued at #159 in the same series. Both poses are known with and without the 1962 green tint, four Reniff states at this number in all.
Printed #139 carries three different cards: #139a Hal Reniff (this card); #139b Hal Reniff; #139c Babe Ruth Special: Babe Hits 60. Each is listed and tracked on its own here, lettered the way the hobby catalogs them.
About Hal Reniff
Army duty cost Reniff the first half of 1962 and a sore shoulder cost the rest: two Yankee appearances, 3.2 innings, and six more innings back at Richmond. Topps still gave him three cards in the second series. The portrait #139a and the pitching pose #139b both carry printed number 139, shared with the Babe Ruth Special 'Babe Hits 60', while #159 was his intended slot. All three are rookie cards, the two at 139 the key ones.
Harold Eugene Reniff was a right-handed relief pitcher, born in Warren, Ohio, on July 2, 1938, who signed with the New York Yankees in 1956 out of Chaffey High School in Ontario, California. Five full years in the minors followed, the best of them a 21-7 record for Modesto of the Class C California League, before New York called him up from Richmond in June 1961. He debuted on June 8, went 2-0 with a 2.58 earned run average across 25 games, and collected a championship ring that October without appearing in the Series. Army duty and a sore shoulder wiped out nearly all of the next season, but he came back to hold the Yankee bullpen for four years. His best was 1963: 18 saves, sixth in the American League, and a 2.62 ERA over 48 games. He worked three scoreless innings in the 1963 World Series and a third of an inning in 1964, earning no decision and no save in either. New York sold him to the crosstown Mets in June 1967 and he finished there. Over 276 major-league games, every one in relief, he went 21-23 with 45 saves, 314 strikeouts and a 3.27 ERA. Five more seasons at Triple-A Syracuse followed; he retired after 1972 and died in Ontario, California, in 2004.
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Print variations
Two states of #139a are tracked individually: 139aa - Hal Reniff (Portrait) and 139ab - Hal Reniff Portrait-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 139aa - Hal Reniff (Portrait) | |||||||||
| PSA | 238 | 0 | 9 | 50 | 104 | 46 | 15 | 14 | 0 |
| SGC | 24 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 |
| 139ab - Hal Reniff Portrait-Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 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. 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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Related cards
More Hal Reniff in this set: #139b, #159
Team card: #251 New York Yankees Team
More New York Yankees cards:
- #1 Roger Maris
- #18 Managers' Dream
- #31 Tom Tresh
- #48 Ralph Terry
- #65 Bobby Richardson
- #88 Ralph Houk
- #93 John Blanchard
- #110 Bill Skowron
- #136 Babe Ruth Special: Babe Joins Yanks
- #137 Babe Ruth Special: Babe and Mgr. Huggins
- #138 Babe Ruth Special: The Famous Slugger
- #139b Hal Reniff
- #139c Babe Ruth Special: Babe Hits 60
- #140 Babe Ruth Special: Gehrig and Ruth
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #139a card?
It is card #139a of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Hal Reniff of the New York Yankees. Three different cards were printed #139; this is the Hal Reniff.
Is 1962 Topps #139a a rookie card?
Yes - #139a is the 1962 Topps rookie card of Hal Reniff.
How many Hal Reniff cards are in the 1962 Topps set?
Three: the portrait pose (139a) and the pitching pose (139b), both printed with number 139 alongside the Babe Hits 60 Babe Ruth Special, and the reissue at #159, the number Topps meant for him all along. All three are his 1962 rookie-year cards.
Does 1962 Topps #139a have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 139aa - Hal Reniff (Portrait) (The portrait pose in the normal second-series printing, its wood-grain border a warm, ordinary brown) and 139ab - Hal Reniff Portrait-Green Tint (The portrait pose carrying the green cast from the second series' flawed press run, the printing collectors call the Green Tint). Owning any one of them fills the #139a slot; the master set counts each state.
Why are there three cards numbered #139 in 1962 Topps?
The portrait pose, one of two distinct Hal Reniff cards printed with number 139, and the pose catalogues letter 139a. Reniff was also issued at #159 in the same series. Both poses are known with and without the 1962 green tint, four Reniff states at this number in all. Each is listed and tracked on its own here, lettered the way the hobby catalogs them.
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.