1962 Topps #48 Ralph Terry
The card back prints Terry's winning percentage as 4.95 instead of.495.
Uncorrected error: The back prints his winning percentage as 4.95 instead of.495
About Ralph Terry
Card #48 is a first-series card, so it reached collectors in the spring of 1962, before the season that would define Terry's career. The back carries a well-known flub: his winning percentage is printed as 4.95 rather than .495, the decimal point dropped a slot. What followed was the year he is measured by - 23-12 with a 3.19 ERA, leading the American League in both wins and innings pitched at 298 2/3, a career-best 176 strikeouts, and selection to both American League All-Star squads that summer, the only All-Star honors he ever earned. The October that capped it brought him a Corvette from Sport magazine and the Babe Ruth Award.
Ralph Terry, a right-handed pitcher from Big Cabin, Oklahoma, spent twelve big-league seasons (1956-1967) with the Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Cleveland Indians and Mets, finishing 107-99 with a 3.62 ERA, 75 complete games, 20 shutouts and exactly 1,000 strikeouts. The Yankees signed him in November 1953, months after he graduated as salutatorian at Chelsea High School in Oklahoma; a detour to Kansas City took him away in 1957, and he was back in New York by 1959 to pitch through five straight pennants from 1960 to 1964. His signature moment came in Game Seven of the 1962 World Series, when he threw a complete-game 1-0 shutout at Candlestick Park against the Giants, the contest ending on Bobby Richardson's catch of Willie McCovey's line drive; he was named World Series MVP after also winning Game Five. It was redemption of a sort - two years earlier he had surrendered Bill Mazeroski's Game Seven walk-off home run that gave Pittsburgh the 1960 title. He was never elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, though he belongs to both the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame and the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. After baseball he turned professional golfer, won the 1980 Midwest PGA Championship and later played the Senior PGA Tour. He died in Larned, Kansas, in March 2022 at 86.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 393 | 0 | 4 | 98 | 168 | 86 | 26 | 11 | 0 |
| SGC | 31 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 6 | 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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- #139b Hal Reniff
- #139c Babe Ruth Special: Babe Hits 60
- #140 Babe Ruth Special: Gehrig and Ruth
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #48 card?
It is card #48 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ralph Terry of the New York Yankees.
Does 1962 Topps #48 have an error?
The back prints his winning percentage as 4.95 instead of.495. It was never corrected, so there is no variation to chase - every copy of #48 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.