1962 Topps #250 Norm Cash
About Norm Cash
Three cards mark the peak. #51, the 1961 American League batting leaders card, stacks his .361 over Elston Howard, Al Kaline and Jim Piersall, a season that also brought 41 home runs, 132 RBI and a fourth-place MVP finish. #250 is his solo Tigers card, and #466 comes from the set's American League All-Star subset, fitting for a man picked for both All-Star Games played that summer. Topps put them in the first, third and sixth series.
Norman Dalton Cash reached the majors with the Chicago White Sox in 1958 and sat on their 1959 American League pennant winners. Chicago packaged him to Cleveland that December in the Minnie Minoso deal, and the following April, before Cash had played an inning for the Indians, Cleveland sent him on to Detroit for Steve Demeter, who lasted four more major league games. Cash held down first base for the Tigers for the next fifteen seasons. Ernie Harwell hung the nickname on him, borrowed from a Baltimore man of the same name, after a rare flare of temper. He was a five-time All-Star, the 1961 American League batting champion and a World Series winner in 1968, and he later admitted cheerfully to filling hollowed-out bats with cork, sawdust and glue. He was the only American Leaguer to hit 20 or more home runs in every season from 1961 through 1969, led the league in fielding twice and in assists three times, and finished with 377 home runs, fourth most by a left-handed hitter in league history behind Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Lou Gehrig. Detroit released him in August 1974, and he drowned in 1986 after falling from a dock at Beaver Island, Michigan. Cash is in the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, not the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 369 | 0 | 9 | 122 | 136 | 58 | 26 | 18 | 0 |
| SGC | 37 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 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 Norm Cash in this set: #51 League Leaders, #466 AL All-Stars
Team card: #24 Detroit Tigers Team
More Detroit Tigers cards:
- #20 Rocky Colavito
- #62 Steve Boros
- #72 Bob's Pupils
- #87 Mike Roarke
- #92 Sam Jones
- #105 Don Mossi
- #114 Howie Koplitz
- #150 Al Kaline
- #173 Chico Fernandez
- #196 Terry Fox
- #216 Ron Kline
- #261 George Alusik
- #299 Don Wert
- #314 Rocky Colavito
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #250 card?
It is card #250 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Norm Cash of the Detroit Tigers.
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.