1962 Topps #68 Ken L. Hunt
This is Ken Hunt the Angels outfielder. A different major leaguer of the same name, a pitcher, has his own card in this set at #364.
About Ken L. Hunt
1962 Topps #68 sits in the set's first series, and carries Hunt with the Los Angeles Angels on the strength of his 25-homer 1961. The season behind the card was a wreck. In an early-April exhibition game he tore muscles in his right shoulder on a throw, then separated the same shoulder on May 4 while flexing a bat behind his neck in the on-deck circle. Surgery followed, reported as the repair of an aneurysm near his throwing shoulder. He did not get back into the lineup until September and appeared in only 13 games all year, by which time the Angels had left cozy Wrigley Field for less hitter-friendly Chavez Ravine.
Kenneth Lawrence Hunt, born July 13, 1934, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, was a right-handed-hitting, right-throwing outfielder who grew up a boyhood friend and high-school rival of Roger Maris. Signed by the New York Yankees out of high school in 1952, he hit for average and power at nearly every minor-league stop from Class D to Triple-A, but a crowded New York outfield held him to 31 games in pinstripes across 1959 and 1960. His chance came on December 14, 1960, when the expansion Los Angeles Angels took him with the 40th pick of the expansion draft. Hunt started in center field in the first game in Angels history and hit 25 home runs that summer, a club rookie record that stood until 1993. Shoulder trouble the next spring and the surgery that followed cost him nearly all of 1962, and he was never the same hitter. Los Angeles sold him to the Washington Senators in September 1963. He sat out 1965, spent one last season in the Pacific Coast League in 1966, then retired to the aerospace industry in Southern California. Over six major-league seasons he batted .226 with 33 home runs in 310 games. Hunt died of a heart attack in 1997 at age 62 in Gardena, California.
Sources: SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 235 | 0 | 3 | 78 | 120 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 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 #68 card?
It is card #68 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ken L. Hunt of the Los Angeles Angels.
Are there two Ken Hunts in the 1962 Topps set?
Yes. #68, printed Ken L. Hunt, is the Los Angeles Angels outfielder; #364 Ken Hunt is the Cincinnati Reds pitcher.
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.