1962 Topps #184 Haywood Sullivan
About Haywood Sullivan
The 1962 Topps card caught Sullivan at his high-water mark. Kansas City made him its semi-regular catcher in 1961, and he answered with career highs in games (117), hits (80), home runs (six) and RBI (40) while batting .242, with 78 starts behind the plate plus time at first base and both outfield corners. Number 184 sits in the second series, the 110-to-196 run that Topps had reprinted by a different press after sales outran the first run. Those cards came back cropped a little differently and carrying a greenish cast, so 184 exists twice for collectors: once with the green tint and once without.
Haywood Sullivan was a 6-foot-4, 215-pound catcher who played all or parts of seven big-league seasons with the Boston Red Sox and Kansas City Athletics between 1955 and 1963, finishing at .226 with 192 hits, 13 home runs and 87 RBI in 312 games. Born in Donalsonville, Georgia and raised in Dothan, Alabama, he was an All-SEC quarterback and a standout catcher at the University of Florida before signing with Boston in June 1952. Military service cost him the 1953 and 1954 seasons, and surgery on a ruptured disk wiped out all of 1958, so his first eight professional seasons were spent almost entirely in the minors. He reached the majors for good in 1960 at age 29, was taken by the expansion Washington Senators that December and traded to Kansas City, and served as the Athletics' semi-regular catcher in 1961 and 1962. He managed the A's in 1965, then joined the Red Sox front office, was named their general manager in 1977, and held a general partnership in the club from 1978 until 1993. Boston elected him to its team Hall of Fame in 2004.
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Print variations
Two states of #184 are tracked individually: 184a - No Green Tint and 184b - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 184a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 251 | 0 | 16 | 105 | 91 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 184b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 68 | 1 | 7 | 28 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| SGC | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 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 #184 card?
It is card #184 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Haywood Sullivan of the Kansas City Athletics.
Does 1962 Topps #184 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 184a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 184b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #184 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.