1962 Topps #116 Herb Score
About Herb Score
Score came to the 1962 set on fumes. Optioned to San Diego of the Pacific Coast League in June 1961, he pitched just eight major-league games that year and went 1-2 with a 6.66 ERA; in 1962 he answered the bell four more times, all in relief, before his final big-league appearance on May 4. Two more minor-league seasons at Indianapolis ended with his request to be placed on the voluntary retirement list. Card #116 is a second-series card. It comes in two collectible states: the regular printing and the scarcer green tint that turns up across the whole second series, #110 through #196.
Herbert Jude Score, born June 7, 1933, in Rosedale, a Queens neighborhood of New York City, was a hard-throwing left-hander who signed with the Cleveland Indians on his 19th birthday in 1952 for a $60,000 bonus, after pitching Lake Worth Community High School in Florida to a state championship. He reached the majors on April 15, 1955, and was an instant sensation, going 16-10 with a 2.85 ERA and 245 strikeouts, a major-league rookie record that stood until 1984, and taking American League Rookie of the Year honors. He followed with a 20-9, 2.53 campaign and a league-best 263 strikeouts in 1956, an All-Star in each of his first two seasons. On May 7, 1957, a line drive off the bat of the Yankees' Gil McDougald struck him in the face, breaking facial bones and injuring his right eye. His vision returned, but a torn elbow tendon in 1958 and the altered delivery that followed cost him his velocity. Cleveland traded him to the Chicago White Sox on April 18, 1960, for Barry Latman; his last big-league outing came on May 4, 1962, leaving him 55-46 with a 3.36 ERA and 837 strikeouts. He broadcast Cleveland games from 1964 to 1997 and entered the Cleveland Indians Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Print variations
Two states of #116 are tracked individually: 116a - No Green Tint and 116b - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 116a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 277 | 0 | 2 | 73 | 112 | 62 | 15 | 13 | 0 |
| SGC | 25 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 116b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 104 | 0 | 2 | 22 | 37 | 33 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #116 card?
It is card #116 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Herb Score of the Chicago White Sox.
Does 1962 Topps #116 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 116a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 116b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #116 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.