1962 Topps #271 Ray Rippelmeyer
About Ray Rippelmeyer
Washington took him from Cincinnati in the November 27, 1961 Rule 5 draft, and the 1962 set caught him in a Senators uniform on card #271, a third-series card. He debuted April 14 at Cleveland with 5 2/3 scoreless relief innings, homered in a May 3 outing against Boston and hurt his shoulder later in that same game, then took his only big league win June 1 at Minnesota on two hitless extra innings. His lone start came July 1 against those same Twins, and Washington returned him to the Reds ten days later: 18 games, 39 1/3 innings, 1-2, 5.49 ERA.
Raymond Roy Rippelmeyer, known as Bud, was born July 9, 1933, in Valmeyer, Illinois, and grew up doing chores on his father's 2,500-acre farm. A 6-foot-3 right-hander, he was a basketball star first, voted most valuable player by his Southern Illinois teammates in 1953. He signed with the Milwaukee Braves in 1954 for a $4,000 bonus and moved on to Southeast Missouri State, where NAIA rules let him keep playing basketball. Eleven minor league seasons brought a 114-83 record, with winters in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Cincinnati took him in the November 1959 minor league draft, and his entire major league career came in 1962 with the Washington Senators. As the Phillies' pitching coach from 1970 to 1978 he talked Steve Carlton into leaning on his slider; Carlton won the 1972 Cy Young Award, and Philadelphia took three straight National League East titles from 1976 to 1978. He married Glenda Faye Jones in 1955 and they had four children. He died September 9, 2022, in Waterloo, Illinois, at 89, and is honored in the San Diego Padres minor league Hall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 178 | 0 | 10 | 84 | 53 | 18 | 10 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 7 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #271 card?
It is card #271 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ray Rippelmeyer of the Washington Senators.
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.