1962 Topps #450 Jim O'Toole
The printed text calls O'Toole a right-hander; he threw left-handed.
Uncorrected error: The text calls him a right-hander - O'Toole threw left
About Jim O'Toole
Topps gave O'Toole four cards in 1962 on the strength of his 1961 season: 19-9 with a 3.10 ERA and 178 strikeouts for the pennant winners. Three are League Leaders cards from the first series. #56 sets him among the National League ERA leaders behind Warren Spahn, with Curt Simmons and Mike McCormick; #58 puts him with 21-game winners Spahn and Joey Jay; #60 lists him behind strikeout leader Sandy Koufax alongside Stan Williams and Don Drysdale. His own card, #450 from the sixth series, carries a printing slip: the text calls him a right-hander, and he threw left.
James Jerome O'Toole was born January 10, 1937, on Chicago's South Side, the son of a city policeman who taught him to box. A self-described cocky kid, he picked up the nickname 'Rocky' and fought Golden Gloves. He attended Leo High School, which had no baseball team, so he learned to pitch on the sandlots before a season at the University of Wisconsin. A 9-1 summer for Mitchell in South Dakota's Basin League brought a $50,000 bonus from Cincinnati. The left-hander won 20 games at Double-A Nashville in 1958 and debuted for the Reds that September 26. He joined the rotation in 1959 and was a fixture in it through 1964. In 1961 he went 19-9 with a 3.10 ERA as Cincinnati took the pennant, then started Games One and Four of the World Series and lost both to Whitey Ford. Three more double-digit-win seasons followed; he made his only All-Star team in 1963 and pitched to a 2.66 ERA in 1964, the best of his full seasons. Traded to the Chicago White Sox for 1967, his last major-league year, he finished 98-84 with 1,039 strikeouts in ten seasons. Cincinnati elected him to the Reds Hall of Fame in 1970, his first year of eligibility. He died in Cincinnati in 2015.
Sources: SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 177 | 0 | 5 | 64 | 70 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 2 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 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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Related cards
More Jim O'Toole in this set: #56 League Leaders, #58 League Leaders, #60 League Leaders
Team card: #465 Cincinnati Reds Team
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- #16 Darrell Johnson
- #41 Cliff Cook
- #80 Vada Pinson
- #103 Don Blasingame
- #120 Bob Purkey
- #148 Wally Post
- #151 Johnny Klippstein
- #171 Dave Sisler
- #172 Fred Hutchinson
- #193 Eddie Kasko
- #205 Gene Freese
- #233 World Series Game #2 - Jay Ties It Up
- #258 Marty Keough
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #450 card?
It is card #450 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim O'Toole of the Cincinnati Reds.
Does 1962 Topps #450 have an error?
The text calls him a right-hander - O'Toole threw left. It was never corrected, so there is no variation to chase - every copy of #450 reads the same way.
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.