1962 Topps #486 Jim Gilliam
About Jim Gilliam
The 1962 Topps #486 falls in the set's sixth series and lists Gilliam at third base. Its subject season is 1961, his lightest workload in nine years with the club: 144 games, 439 at-bats, a .244 average with 26 doubles and 32 RBI. The walks kept coming anyway, 79 of them, for a .358 on-base percentage better than a hundred points above his average, and 74 runs scored.
Jim Gilliam reached the Baltimore Elite Giants in 1946 at 17, and manager George 'Tubby' Scales hung the nickname 'Junior' on him and turned him into a switch-hitter. A three-time East-West All-Star, he was sold to Brooklyn and debuted April 14, 1953, taking over second base from Jackie Robinson, breaking the rookie walk record with 100 and winning National League Rookie of the Year. All 14 major league seasons were Dodgers seasons, spent at second, at third and in the outfield, with All-Star trips in 1956 and 1959 and a league-leading 96 walks in 1959. He drew 1,036 walks in those Dodgers years and finished at .265 with 2,012 hits across 17 professional seasons, winning four World Series, the last on his backhand stop at third behind Sandy Koufax in Game 7, 1965. Named a Dodgers coach after the 1964 season, he was the third Black man to coach in the majors, and he worked for Walter Alston and Tom Lasorda until a brain hemorrhage in September 1978. He died October 8; the Dodgers retired his number 19 before that year's World Series, and the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame elected him in 1995.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 260 | 2 | 17 | 93 | 84 | 33 | 15 | 16 | 0 |
| SGC | 24 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 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 #486 card?
It is card #486 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Gilliam of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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.