1962 Topps #112 Hank Foiles
About Hank Foiles
Card #112 in the second series still lists Foiles with Baltimore, a team line overtaken by events: the Orioles sold him to Cincinnati on April 20, 1962, and he spent the whole season as a Red. He was a useful one, too, batting .275 with 7 home runs and 25 RBIs in 43 games and slugging .496, his best mark in any season he came to bat more than 100 times. Collectors chase two states of this number, one printed with a green tint and one without.
Henry Lee Foiles Jr. (1929-2024) was a right-handed catcher from Richmond, Virginia, raised in Norfolk, where he starred in football and baseball at Granby High School. Signed by the New York Yankees in November 1947, he was taken by the Cincinnati Reds in the 1951 Rule 5 draft and debuted in the majors in April 1953. After bouncing between Cincinnati, the Cleveland Indians and the minor leagues, he landed in Pittsburgh in a May 1956 trade for Preston Ward, and his arm and glove made him one of the National League's better defensive catchers. His finest season came in 1957, when he hit .270 with 9 home runs and 36 RBIs and was picked for the National League All-Star team, singling as a pinch hitter and scoring in the ninth inning of a 6-5 loss. He caught more than 100 games again in 1958 before Smoky Burgess took the job in 1959. Then came the churn: 1960 alone sent him from Kansas City to Pittsburgh to Cleveland to Detroit. He closed an eleven-year career in 1964 with a .243 average, 46 home runs and a .986 fielding mark, is credited as the first big leaguer to play in contact lenses, and was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1987.
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Print variations
Two states of #112 are tracked individually: 112a - No Green Tint and 112b - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 112a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 182 | 0 | 5 | 63 | 76 | 29 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 112b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 68 | 0 | 9 | 25 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #112 card?
It is card #112 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Hank Foiles of the Baltimore Orioles.
Does 1962 Topps #112 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 112a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 112b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #112 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.