1962 Topps #265 Joe Adcock
About Joe Adcock
The 1962 set gives Adcock a third-series slot at #265, covering the best RBI season of his career. Milwaukee was the oldest club in the National League in 1961 and slid to fourth at 83-71, but Adcock's bat woke up in the second half (21-for-62, .330) and he finished with a team-high 35 home runs and a career-best 108 RBIs. On June 8 against Cincinnati he was the third man in a record string of four straight home runs in one inning, following Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron and preceding Frank Thomas. He, Aaron (34) and Mathews (32) became the first Braves trio to each reach 30 in a season.
Joseph Wilbur Adcock was born October 30, 1927, in Coushatta, Louisiana, and led the Southeastern Conference in scoring for the LSU basketball team before a walk-on tryout there turned him into a slugging first baseman. Signed by Cincinnati in 1947, he debuted with the Reds in 1950 but was blocked at first base by Ted Kluszewski and was traded to the Braves in February 1953, weeks before the franchise moved from Boston to Milwaukee. Nicknamed "Billy Joe" after a Vanderbilt basketball player and popularized by Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully, Adcock became one of the era's most feared long-ball hitters, highlighted by a four-home-run, 18-total-base game against Brooklyn at Ebbets Field on July 31, 1954. He anchored Milwaukee's lineup alongside Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews, helped the Braves win the 1957 World Series, and made his only All-Star team in 1960. Injuries and platooning cost him at-bats, yet he finished with 336 home runs, 1,122 RBIs and a .277 average over 17 seasons with the Reds, Braves, Indians and Angels, retiring with the third-highest career fielding percentage (.994) among first basemen. A 1975 Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame inductee and a 2022 Braves Hall of Fame selection, he retired to his Coushatta ranch and died there on May 3, 1999.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 177 | 0 | 2 | 43 | 73 | 34 | 13 | 12 | 0 |
| SGC | 13 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 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 #265 card?
It is card #265 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Joe Adcock of the Milwaukee Braves.
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.