1962 Topps #191 Jim Brewer
About Jim Brewer
Number 191 is a second-series card in the 1962 set, and it comes two ways: copies with the green tint and copies without, both collected as distinct states. The back reports 1961, Brewer's first full season after the eye injury, and it was a beating - 36 games, 11 of them starts, 86 2/3 innings, a 1-7 record and a 5.82 ERA, with 57 strikeouts, 21 walks and 17 home runs allowed. It was the heaviest workload he would carry until he got to Los Angeles three years later.
Jim Brewer was a left-handed pitcher who spent 17 major league seasons (1960-1976) with the Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers and California Angels after the Cubs signed him out of Broken Arrow High School in Oklahoma in 1956. His rookie year ended in violence: on August 4, 1960, Cincinnati's Billy Martin flung his bat toward the mound after a brushback pitch, walked out to retrieve it, then turned and punched Brewer, breaking the orbital bone under his right eye and finishing his season. Brewer sued, and after two trials a Chicago jury awarded him $10,000 in 1969. Traded into the Dodgers' organization in December 1963, he picked up a screwball grip from Braves great Warren Spahn in 1964 and turned it into one of the National League's best relief weapons. He helped Los Angeles to three pennants and the 1965 World Series title, and from 1968 through 1973 averaged roughly 20 saves a year, making the 1973 All-Star team at age 35. Brewer retired with 69 wins, more than 130 saves and a 3.07 ERA in 584 games, then spent three seasons as the Montreal Expos' pitching coach and later taught the screwball to Dodgers prospects. He was killed in a 1987 car crash in Texas, driving through a thunderstorm on his way to a pitching clinic.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Print variations
Two states of #191 are tracked individually: 191a - No Green Tint and 191b - 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.
As an eBay Partner Network affiliate, T206Cards.com may earn from qualifying purchases.
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 191a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 201 | 0 | 3 | 65 | 99 | 22 | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 13 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 191b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 83 | 0 | 5 | 22 | 30 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 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.
Find this card
Search T206 Cards Live auctions Buy It Now on eBay Sold prices
As an eBay Partner Network affiliate, T206Cards.com may earn from qualifying purchases.
Related cards
Team card: #552 Chicago Cubs Team
More Chicago Cubs cards:
- #25 Ernie Banks
- #47 Bob Will
- #66 Cuno Barragan
- #89 Barney Schultz
- #119 Danny Murphy
- #170 Ron Santo
- #240 George Altman
- #264 Dick Ellsworth
- #274 Sammy Taylor
- #288 Billy Williams
- #309 Moe Morhardt
- #359 Bobby Locke
- #372 Jack Curtis
- #387 Lou Brock
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #191 card?
It is card #191 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Brewer of the Chicago Cubs.
Does 1962 Topps #191 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 191a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 191b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #191 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.