1962 Topps #127 Pride of the A's
On this card: Norm Siebern, Hank Bauer, Jerry Lumpe
Card #127 is catalogued with an uncorrected error on the back: the 12th line should read "...finishing with a.293 mark." Jerry Lumpe hit.293 in 148 games for Kansas City in 1961.
Uncorrected error: The 12th line of the back should read "...finishing with a.293 mark"
About this card
This is one of the eleven combo cards in the set, each pairing two or three players under a headline rather than giving one man his own card - Managers' Dream (#18, Mantle and Mays), AL & NL Homer Kings (#401, Maris and Cepeda) and Rival League Relief Aces (#423, Face and Wilhelm) among them.
The story on this card
The title was Topps' idea of a compliment: Kansas City had just finished ninth in the ten-team American League, and the "Pride of the A's" amounted to three men. Norm Siebern and Jerry Lumpe held down the right side of the infield at first and second base, college basketball teammates at Southwest Missouri State who both reached Kansas City by way of the Yankees. Hank Bauer, the old Yankee outfielder, was handed the A's playing-manager job on June 19, 1961 and retired as a player a month later to run the club full time. Card #127 is a second-series card, and it turns up both with and without the green tint that marked the early second-series printings.
A quiet, 6-foot-2 left-handed slugger, Siebern won a Gold Glove with the Yankees, was traded for Roger Maris, and made four All-Star teams as a first baseman for Kansas City and Baltimore. Hank Bauer was the Yankees' hard-nosed right fielder, a decorated Marine and three-time All-Star who won seven World Series rings, then managed for eight seasons and drove the 1966 Orioles to a World Series sweep of the Dodgers. Jerry Lumpe was a steady left-handed second baseman who broke in with the Yankees, blossomed into an everyday hitter after a trade to Kansas City, hit .301 for the Athletics in 1962, and made Detroit's 1964 All-Star team before retiring in 1967.
Sources: Wikipedia (Hank Bauer) · Wikipedia (Jerry Lumpe) · Wikipedia (Norm Siebern) · SABR BioProject (Norm Siebern) · SABR BioProject (Hank Bauer) · SABR BioProject (Jerry Lumpe)
Print variations
Two states of #127 are tracked individually: 127a - No Green Tint and 127b - Green Tint. The difference is on the front of the card (green tint).
States catalogued by the PSA master set registry; each is tracked here individually.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 127a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 296 | 0 | 9 | 83 | 129 | 44 | 13 | 14 | 4 |
| SGC | 23 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 127b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 77 | 0 | 3 | 27 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 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. Where a grader registers a variation separately its population is listed under that variation. 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 #127 card?
It is card #127 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Norm Siebern, Hank Bauer and Jerry Lumpe. This is one of the eleven combo cards in the set, each pairing two or three players under a headline rather than giving one man his own card - Managers' Dream (#18, Mantle and Mays), AL & NL Homer Kings (#401, Maris and Cepeda) and Rival League Relief Aces (#423, Face and Wilhelm) among them.
Does 1962 Topps #127 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 127a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 127b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #127 slot; the master set counts each state.
Does 1962 Topps #127 have an error?
The 12th line of the back should read "...finishing with a.293 mark". It was never corrected, so there is no variation to chase - every copy of #127 reads the same way.
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.