1962 Topps #292 Jerry Kindall
About Jerry Kindall
Cleveland handed Kindall the second-base job outright in 1962 and he never gave it back, starting all 154 games he appeared in out of 162, turning 114 double plays and leading American League second basemen with 494 assists. His bat peaked in mid-June: 8-for-14 with three doubles and two homers as the Indians swept four from the Yankees, the second of them a two-run walk-off off Jim Coates that flipped a 9-8 deficit into a 10-9 win. The sweep left Cleveland two games up in the league. He was hitting .289 on May 11 and finished at .232, with personal bests of 123 hits, 13 homers and 55 RBI. Card 292 is a fourth-series Cleveland issue.
Jerry Kindall was a right-handed infielder from St. Paul, Minnesota, who signed with the Chicago Cubs in June 1956 as a bonus baby, reportedly for $50,000, straight out of a College World Series title with the University of Minnesota. The bonus rule chained him to the big-league roster with almost no playing time, and only after hitting .164 and .160 did he get his apprenticeship: two seasons at Fort Worth in 1958 and 1959. He returned to the Cubs in 1960 and went to Cleveland in a November 1961 trade for pitcher Bobby Locke. He finished with the Minnesota Twins, starting 101 games at second base for the 1965 pennant winner before a torn leg muscle and rookie Frank Quilici cut his time; he never got into the World Series, and was released in the spring of 1966. Nine seasons left him at .213 in 742 games with 44 home runs, unusual pop for a middle infielder, and a glove Tommy John said kept him in the lineup. Cooperstown never called, but the College Baseball Hall of Fame took him in 2007 after 24 years as head coach at Arizona, where he won 860 games and three national championships.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 192 | 0 | 8 | 73 | 84 | 19 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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 #292 card?
It is card #292 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jerry Kindall of the Cleveland Indians.
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.
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