1962 Topps #73 Nellie Fox
About Nellie Fox
1962 Topps #73 is a first-series base card -- a plain low number; Fox was thirteen seasons into his White Sox run by then. The season it opened turned out to be the odd one out. Fox lifted his average to .267 over 157 games, but Chicago slid to fifth place, and for the first time since 1950 he was left off the American League All-Star squad. He was back on it in 1963, which left 1962 as the lone gap between eleven straight selections and his twelfth and final one.
Jacob Nelson "Nellie" Fox (1927-1975) was the slick-fielding second baseman at the heart of the Chicago White Sox's "Go-Go" era. Born on Christmas Day in St. Thomas, Pennsylvania, the son of a carpenter who played town ball, Fox signed with the Philadelphia Athletics at sixteen in 1944 and came to Chicago after the 1949 season in a trade for catcher Joe Tipton. Listed at 5-foot-9 and 150 pounds, he choked up on a thick-handled bottle bat and struck out just 216 times in his career, the third-hardest man to fan in major-league history. He led AL second basemen in fielding average six times and won three Gold Gloves. His signature year was 1959: he batted .306, led the league in singles and games played, and was named AL Most Valuable Player, the first White Sox player to win it, as Chicago took its first pennant in forty years. He hit .375 in that fall's six-game World Series loss to the Dodgers. A twelve-time All-Star across fourteen seasons in Chicago, Fox closed out with Houston in 1964-65 and finished at .288 with 2,663 hits and a .984 fielding percentage. The White Sox retired his No. 2, and the Veterans Committee elected him to the Hall of Fame in 1997, twenty-two years after his death from cancer at 47.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 589 | 0 | 10 | 94 | 170 | 138 | 73 | 104 | 0 |
| SGC | 111 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 21 | 19 | 29 | 31 | 1 |
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 #73 card?
It is card #73 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Nellie Fox of the Chicago White 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.
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