1962 Topps #75 Milt Pappas
About Milt Pappas
Card 55 is the series-1 American League ERA leaders card, seating Pappas with Dick Donovan, Bill Stafford and Don Mossi on the strength of the 3.04 he had posted in 1961. Card 75, his own series-1 Baltimore card, carries him into a bumpier summer: 12-10 with a 4.03 ERA, the roughest full season of his Orioles years, though he made the All-Star team and worked both games. On April 18 he homered off Stafford himself in a 1-0 win over the Yankees.
Milton Steven Pappas, born May 11, 1939, in Detroit to Greek immigrant parents, pitched 17 seasons in the majors from 1957 through 1973 as a control artist for the Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs. Signed out of Detroit's Cooley High School for a $4,000 bonus, he got only a two-week taste of the minors before debuting at 18 in August 1957. He anchored Baltimore's young Kiddie Korps staff with Chuck Estrada, Steve Barber, Jack Fisher and Jerry Walker, won in double figures eleven straight seasons, and was an All-Star in 1962, when he pitched in both of that summer's two All-Star Games, and again in 1965, when he started the game. In December 1965 Baltimore sent him, Jack Baldschun and Dick Simpson to Cincinnati for Frank Robinson, remembered as one of the most lopsided trades ever made. He later pitched for the Braves and Cubs, no-hitting San Diego on September 2, 1972, and retired with 209 wins, 164 losses and a 3.40 ERA in 3,186 innings without ever winning 20 in a season. He is not in the National Baseball Hall of Fame; Baltimore elected him to the Orioles Hall of Fame in 1985. He died April 19, 2016, at 76.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 214 | 0 | 6 | 83 | 85 | 23 | 8 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 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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Related cards
More Milt Pappas in this set: #55 League Leaders
Team card: #476 Baltimore Orioles Team
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- #45 Brooks Robinson
- #64 Russ Snyder
- #99 John Powell
- #112 Hank Foiles
- #121 Billy Hitchcock
- #134 Billy Hoeft
- #165 Jackie Brandt
- #189 Dick Hall
- #203 Jack Fisher
- #221 Bill Short
- #245 Ron Hansen
- #272 Earl Robinson
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #75 card?
It is card #75 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Milt Pappas of the Baltimore Orioles.
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.