1962 Topps #337 Jim Marshall
About Jim Marshall
Card 337 in series 4 of 1962 Topps carries Marshall with the New York Mets, and he was one of the originals: he walked as a pinch hitter in the ninth inning of the franchise's first game. He started at first base for the injured Gil Hodges in the Polo Grounds home opener on April 13, going 1-for-3 with a double and a walk, then homered off Roy Face and Bob Friend on back-to-back days against Pittsburgh. Seventeen games in he was hitting .344 with three home runs. On May 6 the Mets shipped him to the Pirates for pitcher Vinegar Bend Mizell, and he batted .220 in 55 games there, closing out his major league playing days on September 28.
Rufus James Marshall, born May 25, 1931 in Danville, Illinois and raised in Southern California, was a left-handed-hitting first baseman and outfielder who reached the majors in 1958 with the Baltimore Orioles after a long apprenticeship in the Pacific Coast League, where he led the circuit with 31 home runs and 123 RBIs for the 1954 Oakland Oaks and paced it with 188 hits for Vancouver in 1957. Baltimore sold him to the Chicago Cubs on August 23, 1958, and he greeted his new club with three home runs in a doubleheader at Wrigley Field the next day. He set major league career highs in 1959 with 11 home runs and 40 RBIs in 294 at-bats. Over five seasons through 1962 he also played for the San Francisco Giants, New York Mets and Pittsburgh Pirates, mostly as a backup first baseman and pinch hitter, finishing at .242 with 206 hits and 29 home runs in 410 games. He then spent three seasons in Japan with the Chunichi Dragons, hitting 78 home runs. Marshall later managed the Cubs from 1974 to 1976 and the Athletics in 1979, and closed out a long career with the Diamondbacks as a Pacific Rim advisor. He died September 7, 2025 at 94.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 214 | 0 | 2 | 37 | 110 | 47 | 12 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 14 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 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 #337 card?
It is card #337 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Marshall of the New York Mets.
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.