1962 Topps #107 Mike McCormick
About Mike McCormick
This trio reports a 1961 that looked worse than it pitched: 13-16 for San Francisco, but a 3.20 earned run average across 250 innings with 163 strikeouts. He also surrendered a league-leading 33 home runs after the Candlestick Park fences were moved in. Card #56 lists his ERA behind Warren Spahn, Jim O'Toole and Curt Simmons; #107 is his own first-series card; and #319, the last of the nine action photographs Topps slipped into this set at numbers 311 through 319, is titled McCormick Shows His Stuff.
Mike McCormick was born September 29, 1938, in Pasadena, California, and signed with the New York Giants on August 31, 1956, for a $50,000 bonus out of Mark Keppel High School in Alhambra. The bonus rule kept such a signing on the big-league roster, so the left-hander debuted four days later at seventeen, having never pitched in the minors. Sixteen seasons followed: the New York and San Francisco Giants (1956-1962 and 1967-1970), the Baltimore Orioles (1963-1964), the Washington Senators (1965-1966), the New York Yankees (1970) and the Kansas City Royals (1971). He led the National League with a 2.70 earned run average in 1960 and made all four All-Star squads of 1960 and 1961, when the majors staged two games a summer. A ruined shoulder nearly finished him at twenty-four; he rebuilt himself around a screwball and went 22-10 in 1967 to win San Francisco's first Cy Young Award and The Sporting News awards for Pitcher of the Year and Comeback Player of the Year. He retired with 134 wins, 128 losses, a 3.73 ERA, 1,321 strikeouts and 23 shutouts in 484 games, sold securities and then office equipment, and died June 13, 2020, at 81 in North Carolina. He is not a National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee; the Giants honor him on their Wall of Fame.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 273 | 0 | 3 | 64 | 133 | 49 | 12 | 12 | 0 |
| SGC | 15 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 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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Related cards
More Mike McCormick in this set: #56 League Leaders, #319 In Action
Team card: #226 San Francisco Giants Team
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- #33 Don Larsen
- #40 Orlando Cepeda
- #71 Dick LeMay
- #133 Felipe Alou
- #155 Stu Miller
- #188 Chuck Hiller
- #199 Gaylord Perry
- #231 Ernie Bowman
- #247 Joe Pignatano
- #260 Bill Pierce
- #300 Willie Mays
- #319 Mike McCormick
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #107 card?
It is card #107 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Mike McCormick of the San Francisco Giants.
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.