1962 Topps #316 Harmon Killebrew
Topps captioned this action card Killebrew Sends One Into Orbit.
About this card
Cards #311-319 are the nine In Action cards, each listed under the player and carrying the headline printed on the front - from Kubek Makes The Double Play at #311 to McCormick Shows His Stuff at #319. Every man pictured also has a regular card in the set.
About Harmon Killebrew
Three 1962 cards carry his first Minnesota season, when he hit 46 home runs, drove in a team-leading 122 runs and batted a career-best .288 with the only slugging mark above .600 of his career. Card 53 is the American League home run leaders card, shared with Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle and Jim Gentile; that October Killebrew beat Maris and Gentile in a home run hitting contest, hitting 20. Card 70 is his own first-series card and card 316 a fourth-series action shot. He was named to both 1961 All-Star Games and homered as a pinch hitter in the first.
Harmon Killebrew signed with the Washington Senators out of Payette, Idaho in 1954, a bonus baby whose contract kept the seventeen-year-old on the big-league roster for two full seasons. He broke through in 1959, tying Rocky Colavito for the American League home run lead with 42, and when the franchise moved to Minnesota for 1961 he became the middle of the Twins order for the next decade, shifting between first base, third base and left field as needed. A compact, quiet-tempered slugger built for pure power, he led the American League in home runs six times and in runs batted in three times, reached 40 homers in eight different seasons, and hit 393 home runs during the 1960s, more than any other player in the decade. His finest year was 1969: 49 home runs, 140 RBIs, the American League Most Valuable Player award and the Twins' first AL West title. He reached the World Series once, in 1965, a seven-game loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was known as the Killer, though by every account a gentle man off the field. He finished with Kansas City in 1975, retiring with 573 home runs, fifth on the career list at the time, and the Twins retired his No. 3. Cooperstown elected him in 1984, the first Twin so honored.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 508 | 0 | 13 | 92 | 160 | 108 | 57 | 74 | 4 |
| SGC | 89 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 19 | 17 | 17 | 21 | 2 |
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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Related cards
More Harmon Killebrew in this set: #53 League Leaders, #70
Team card: #584 Minnesota Twins Team
More Minnesota Twins cards:
- #21 Jim Kaat
- #70 Harmon Killebrew
- #84 Lenny Green
- #102 Al Schroll
- #124 Bill Pleis
- #164 Hal Naragon
- #166 Don Lee
- #180 Bob Allison
- #208 Billy Martin
- #222 Jerry Zimmerman
- #230 Camilo Pascual
- #298 Bill Tuttle
- #321 Lee Stange
- #339 Jose Valdivielso
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #316 card?
It is card #316 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins. Cards #311-319 are the nine In Action cards, each listed under the player and carrying the headline printed on the front - from Kubek Makes The Double Play at #311 to McCormick Shows His Stuff at #319. Every man pictured also has a regular card in the set.
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.