1962 Topps #185 Roland Sheldon
About Roland Sheldon
His second Topps card, #185, comes from the second series, and collectors chase it in two states, one showing the green tint in the wood-grain border and one without it. It reached candy counters early in a season that went sideways. Sheldon did not crack the starting rotation until near the end of May, learned in July that he had been tipping his pitches, and wound up 7-8 with a 5.49 ERA in 34 games. He blamed too much experimenting afterward, saying he had tried fifteen or twenty deliveries and listened to too many people. The Yankees still took a seven-game World Series from San Francisco without using him.
Roland "Rollie" Sheldon was a 6-foot-4 right-handed pitcher born in Putnam, Connecticut, on December 17, 1936. He grew up a Red Sox fan but, after Air Force service and stops at Texas A&M and the University of Connecticut, signed with the Yankees in June 1960. One Class D season later - 15-1 at Auburn of the New York-Penn League - he made New York out of spring training in 1961 and became a rotation starter on back-to-back pennant winners. A sophomore slump sent him to Triple-A Richmond for a year and a half before he came back in June 1964 and worked hitless relief in two games of that year's World Series. A May 1965 trade sent him to the Kansas City Athletics, where he finally got a regular turn in the rotation, and a June 1966 trade moved him on to the Boston Red Sox. He finished 38-36 with a 4.09 ERA over five big-league seasons, then pitched four more years in the high minors before settling in Lee's Summit, Missouri, and working in insurance.
Sources: SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Print variations
Two states of #185 are tracked individually: 185a - No Green Tint and 185b - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 185a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 332 | 0 | 4 | 123 | 135 | 48 | 14 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 16 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 185b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 68 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 28 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| SGC | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 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. 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 #185 card?
It is card #185 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Roland Sheldon of the New York Yankees.
Does 1962 Topps #185 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 185a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 185b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #185 slot; the master set counts each state.
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.