1962 Topps #204 Johnny Weekly
About Johnny Weekly
Topps put him at #204 in the third series, and it is his rookie card. He debuted April 13, 1962 with a ninth-inning pinch-hit groundout at Connie Mack Stadium, the fourth game the Colt .45s played. Six days later at Wrigley, on for the ejected Roman Mejias, he homered off Don Cardwell for his first big-league hit. A second homer off Pete Richert followed May 7, and by mid-May Houston returned him to the Giants' chain, five outfield starts and 13 games in.
John Weekly was a right-handed-hitting outfielder, six feet and 200 pounds, born June 14, 1937 in Waterproof, Louisiana, and a graduate of high school in Pittsburg, California, out on San Francisco Bay. He entered the New York Giants' organization in 1956 and spent six seasons in that chain without a call-up, even after the franchise moved into his own corner of California in 1958. Expansion Houston finally sprang him, taking him from the San Francisco Giants in the Rule 5 draft on November 27, 1961, and he reached the majors with the Colt .45s the following April. Across parts of three seasons, all of them with Houston, he played 53 games and batted .207 with 25 hits, five home runs and 19 runs batted in. He was a corner outfielder only: 19 games in left field, 17 in right, never one in center. Triple-A Oklahoma City was his real address through those years, and 1965 was his last season on the field; Houston traded him to the Mets for Gary Kroll the following January. Weekly died November 24, 1974 at 37, of injuries from a road accident in Walnut Creek, California, and is buried at Oak View Cemetery in Antioch.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 212 | 1 | 14 | 105 | 61 | 20 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 15 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #204 card?
It is card #204 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Johnny Weekly of the Houston Colt .45's.
Is 1962 Topps #204 a rookie card?
Yes - #204 is the 1962 Topps rookie card of Johnny Weekly.
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.