1962 Topps #43 Los Angeles Dodgers Team
Hall of Famers on the 1961 Los Angeles Dodgers roster: Walter Alston, Don Drysdale, Gil Hodges, Sandy Koufax and Duke Snider.
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
Card 43 in the 1962 Topps set is the Los Angeles Dodgers team card, part of the first print series. It looks back at 1961, when Walter Alston's club went 89-65 and finished second in the National League, four games behind the Cincinnati Reds. That was the fourth and final season in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum; Dodger Stadium opened the following April. The roster carried five future Hall of Famers in Alston, Don Drysdale, Gil Hodges, Sandy Koufax and Duke Snider. Koufax broke through with 269 strikeouts, the most in the majors, while Snider homered on April 17 and then took a Bob Gibson pitch on the right elbow in the same game, fracturing it and costing him a month.
Sources: Wikipedia (1961 Los Angeles Dodgers season) · Wikipedia (1962 Los Angeles Dodgers season) · Wikipedia (Sandy Koufax) · Wikipedia (Duke Snider)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 468 | 0 | 10 | 151 | 165 | 76 | 31 | 31 | 4 |
| SGC | 44 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 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 #43 card?
It is card #43 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing the Los Angeles Dodgers. 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.