1962 Topps #405 Jim Perry
About Jim Perry
Topps gave Perry two cards in 1962. Card #37 is the Tribe Hill Trio combination card, posing him with Cleveland staff mates Barry Latman and Dick Stigman; #405 is his own Indians card. The season was another uneven one, 12-12 with a 4.14 ERA across 27 starts, the home run still his undoing. On May 10 in Minnesota he served up back-to-back homers to the first two batters he faced, Lenny Green and Vic Power, making him the 12th major-league pitcher to manage that unhappy trick. Between seasons he took a job selling bomb shelters, and the irony of that was lost on nobody.
James Evan Perry Jr., born October 30, 1935 in Williamston, North Carolina, pitched 17 major-league seasons from 1959 to 1975 for the Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, and Oakland Athletics. Signed off the Campbell College campus by Cleveland scout Jim Gruzdis, he went 12-10 as a rookie in 1959 and finished second to Bob Allison in the Rookie of the Year voting, then tied Baltimore's Chuck Estrada for the American League lead with 18 wins in 1960. Traded to Minnesota in May 1963 for left-hander Jack Kralick, Perry spent years shuttling between the rotation and the bullpen until manager Billy Martin handed him a full-time starting job in 1969; he answered with a 20-6 season as the Twins took the first American League West title. He was better still in 1970, leading the league with 24 wins and winning the American League Cy Young Award. A three-time All-Star, he retired with 215 wins, 1,576 strikeouts and a 3.45 ERA. He and younger brother Gaylord, a Hall of Famer, remain the only brothers to each win a Cy Young Award, and Jim was inducted into the Minnesota Twins Hall of Fame in 2011.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 174 | 0 | 7 | 68 | 61 | 19 | 7 | 12 | 0 |
| SGC | 18 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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 Perry in this set: #37 Combo
Team card: #537 Cleveland Indians Team
More Cleveland Indians cards:
- #15 Dick Donovan
- #37 Tribe Hill Trio
- #49 Hal Jones
- #78 Gene Green
- #97 Tito Francona
- #123 Mike de la Hoz
- #145 Barry Latman
- #182 Bob Nieman
- #215 Woody Held
- #224 Don Rudolph
- #242 Mel McGaha
- #253 Harry Chiti
- #273 Gary Bell
- #292 Jerry Kindall
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #405 card?
It is card #405 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Perry 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.
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.