1962 Topps #39 Joe Koppe
About Joe Koppe
Number 39 falls in the first series of 1962 Topps - it is simply his first Topps card as an Angel. Twelve days after acquiring him in May 1961, the Dodgers sent him to St. Louis for Duke Carmel; he never got into a game for either club, and on June 19, 1961 the Cardinals sold him to the first-year Angels for $1,000. Los Angeles handed him the shortstop job at once - 87 starts there the rest of the way - and his combined 1961 line came to .249 with 5 home runs and 40 RBI in 97 games.
Joseph Koppe, born Joseph Kopchia in Detroit, Michigan, on October 19, 1930, was a right-handed-hitting shortstop who spent eight major-league seasons with the Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, and Los Angeles/California Angels. He debuted for the Braves on August 9, 1958 and got into 16 games; Milwaukee won the National League pennant that fall, but he never appeared in the World Series. On March 31, 1959 the Braves shipped him to Philadelphia with Gene Conley and Harry Hanebrink for Johnny O'Brien, Ted Kazanski, and Stan Lopata, and he answered with the best year of his life - .261 in 126 games, 18 doubles, seven triples that ranked eighth in the league, seven home runs, 68 runs scored - and a place on the 1959 Topps All-Star Rookie Team. A wrist injury and a burst of transactions moved him out of Philadelphia in 1961 and into an Angels uniform for five seasons, where he played shortstop, second base, and third base. He retired with a .236 average, 19 home runs, and 141 RBI in 578 games, and died in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on September 27, 2006.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 406 | 0 | 16 | 205 | 141 | 23 | 13 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 27 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #39 card?
It is card #39 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Joe Koppe of the Los Angeles Angels.
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.