1962 Topps #457 Lou Clinton
About Lou Clinton
Card #457 in the sixth series of 1962 Topps shows Clinton as a Boston Red Sox outfielder, an ordinary mid-number. It followed a 1961 that Clinton spent mostly in the minors, hitting .295 and driving in 102 runs for Boston's Triple-A club in Seattle while getting into just 17 games with the Red Sox. One of those came on the final day of the season at Yankee Stadium, where he drifted back in right field and watched Roger Maris's 61st home run land in the seats behind him; asked later where the ball would have come down at Fenway Park, Clinton said it would have landed in his glove.
Luciean Louis Clinton, an Oklahoma-born outfielder who batted and threw right-handed, spent parts of eight major league seasons (1960-1967) with five American League clubs: the Boston Red Sox, the Los Angeles and California Angels, the Kansas City Athletics, the Cleveland Indians and the New York Yankees. Signed by Boston as an amateur free agent in 1955, straight out of Ponca City High School in Oklahoma, he debuted on April 22, 1960 and went on to play right field in 603 of his 691 career games. His best year came in 1962, when he hit for the cycle against Kansas City and set a career high with a .294 batting average, though his peak home run total came a year later. Across eight seasons he batted .247 with 65 home runs and 269 RBIs. The Yankees sold his contract to Philadelphia in May 1967 and he finished that year at Triple-A San Diego, then retired to run an oil business in Wichita, Kansas, where he also became an outstanding amateur golfer and a regular contender in local and state tournaments. The Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame elected him in its class of 1987, and he died in Wichita in 1997 at the age of 60.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 271 | 1 | 19 | 117 | 95 | 31 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 25 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 2 | 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 #457 card?
It is card #457 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Lou Clinton of the Boston Red Sox.
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.