1962 Topps #76 Howie Bedell
About Howie Bedell
1962 Topps #76 sits in the set's first series. It pictures Bedell as a Milwaukee Brave in the year he finally got there: he debuted April 10, 1962, at 26, and this one season became the bulk of his big league record. He played 58 of his eventual 67 career games, batting .196 with 27 hits in 138 at-bats, 44 of his outfield appearances in left and two in center. Every one of the 15 runs he would ever score in the majors came that summer. When the at-bats thinned he went back to Louisville and hit .283 in 59 games.
Howard William Bedell was a left-handed hitting outfielder born September 29, 1935, in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. A Pottstown Senior High School graduate who went on to West Chester, he stood 6-foot-1, weighed 185 pounds and threw right-handed. His playing career stretched 13 seasons, 1957 through 1969, and took in nearly 1,400 minor league games; in 1961 he ran off a 43-game hitting streak in the American Association that was still tied for the league record when the league folded in 1997. The major league portion was brief: the Milwaukee Braves in 1962 and the Philadelphia Phillies in 1968, 67 games in all, 28 hits, three runs batted in, no home runs, a .193 average. His most remembered moment was a pinch-hit sacrifice fly at Dodger Stadium on June 8, 1968 that scored Tony Taylor and ended Don Drysdale's record run of 58 2/3 scoreless innings. Bedell stayed in the game long after that, managing in the minors, coaching for the Kansas City Royals in 1984 and the Seattle Mariners in 1988, and running farm systems for the Phillies and the Cincinnati Reds.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 295 | 0 | 17 | 131 | 91 | 27 | 17 | 12 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 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. 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 #76 card?
It is card #76 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Howie Bedell of the Milwaukee Braves.
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.