1962 Topps #384 Kansas City Athletics Team
Hall of Famers on the 1961 Kansas City Athletics roster: Joe Gordon.
About this card
This is one of the eighteen team cards in the set. Neither 1962 expansion club, the New York Mets or the Houston Colt .45s, has one.
The story on this card
This card reports 1961, the Athletics' first season under Charles O. Finley, who bought control in December 1960 and burned a bus pointed toward New York to end the Yankees pipeline. He repainted Municipal Stadium's seats yellow, turquoise and orange, put sheep beyond right field, and had a mechanical rabbit deliver baseballs to the umpire. The baseball was thinner: 61-100, tied with Washington for ninth and last in the new ten-team American League, 47 1/2 games behind the champion Yankees. Hall of Fame second baseman Joe Gordon opened as manager and outfielder Hank Bauer finished. Norm Siebern hit .296 with 98 RBI; rookie shortstop Dick Howser stole 37 bases and made the All-Star team. Number 384 is print series 5.
Sources: Wikipedia (1961 Kansas City Athletics season) · Wikipedia (Joe Gordon) · Wikipedia (Norm Siebern) · Wikipedia (Dick Howser)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 268 | 0 | 20 | 119 | 93 | 20 | 9 | 5 | 2 |
| SGC | 18 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 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 #384 card?
It is card #384 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing the Kansas City Athletics. This is one of the eighteen team cards in the set. Neither 1962 expansion club, the New York Mets or the Houston Colt .45s, has one.
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.