1962 Topps #595 Rookie Parade Infielders
On this card: Bob Sadowski, Ed Charles, Marlan Coughtry, Felix Torres
The Rookie Parade infielder shown here is Bob Sadowski the second and third baseman, who was with the 1962 White Sox - not the unrelated Milwaukee Braves pitcher of the same name, who did not reach the majors until June 1963.
About this card
Cards #591-598 are the eight-card Rookie Parade that closes the set - three cards of pitchers, one of catchers, three of infielders and one of outfielders - printed in the scarce seventh series and short-printed on every number. Bob Uecker (#594), Sam McDowell and Dick Radatz (#591), Jim Bouton (#592), Bob Veale (#593) and Joe Pepitone, Phil Linz and Rich Rollins (#596) are among the names.
The story on this card
The White Sox used Sadowski mostly off the bench in 1962: 79 games, but only 28 of them in the field, 16 at third base and 12 at second, the rest of his work coming as a pinch-hitter. He supplied real pop for a part-timer, hitting .231 with three doubles, three triples, six home runs and 24 RBI in 130 at-bats before Chicago outrighted him to Indianapolis that fall. His card is #595, a short-printed seventh-series high number and the Rookie Parade infielders panel, sharing the front with Ed Charles, Marlan Coughtry and Felix Torres. It is his recognized rookie card, and the player pictured is Sadowski the infielder, not the unrelated pitcher of the same name who did not reach the majors until the next June. Bob Sadowski was a St. Louis-born infielder and outfielder who played parts of four big league seasons from 1960 to 1963 for the Cardinals, Phillies, White Sox and Angels, batting .222 with seven home runs.
Card #595 is Charles's first Topps card and a recognized rookie card, a short-printed high number from the seventh series that places him in the Rookie Parade subset alongside three other infielders, Bob Sadowski, Marlan Coughtry and Felix Torres. It arrived during his first big league summer, a decade after he signed: Kansas City had acquired him the previous December and handed him third base, and he opened there on April 11, 1962. Ed Charles was the veteran third baseman of the 1969 Miracle Mets, 'The Glider,' who scored the go-ahead run in Game Two of that World Series after eight seasons in the Braves' farm system and six more at third for Kansas City.
Card #595, 'Rookie Parade Infielders,' is Coughtry's rookie card and his only card in Topps' 1961-1969 run, a four-player panel he shares with Bob Sadowski, Ed Charles and Felix Torres. It belongs to the seventh series, the short-printed high numbers that close out the 1962 set. Topps issued it while he was passing from the Angels to Kansas City to Cleveland, where he played the last big league game of his career on July 15. Marlan Coughtry was a patient, well-traveled infielder whose 35 major league games were spread across four American League clubs between 1960 and 1962, and who started at second base in Ted Williams' Fenway Park farewell.
Bill Rigney wrote Torres in as his Opening Day third baseman on April 10, 1962, making him a major leaguer three weeks short of his 30th birthday, but an 0-for-4 debut cost him the job for two weeks while Eddie Yost and Marlan Coughtry got looks there. Torres took it back for good in May, ran off a 15-game hitting streak in June and July, and closed at .259 with 11 home runs, 74 RBI and a career-high 44 runs in 127 games. Topps put him on card #595, a short-printed high number in the seventh series and part of the Rookie Parade infielders group, alongside Ed Charles, Coughtry and Bob Sadowski the infielder, not the pitcher of the same name. Puerto Rican third baseman who held down the hot corner for the Los Angeles Angels in 1962 and 1963, hitting .254 with 27 home runs across three seasons after a Rule 5 draft pick rescued a career that had stalled in the minors.
Sources: Wikipedia (Bob Sadowski (third baseman)) · Wikipedia (Bob Sadowski (pitcher)) · Wikipedia (Ed Charles) · Wikipedia (Marlan Coughtry) · SABR BioProject (Bob Sadowski 2) · SABR BioProject (Ed Charles) · SABR BioProject (Marlan Coughtry)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 583 | 0 | 8 | 133 | 195 | 135 | 58 | 53 | 1 |
| SGC | 112 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 23 | 19 | 24 | 19 | 7 |
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 #595 card?
It is card #595 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bob Sadowski, Ed Charles, Marlan Coughtry and Felix Torres. Cards #591-598 are the eight-card Rookie Parade that closes the set - three cards of pitchers, one of catchers, three of infielders and one of outfielders - printed in the scarce seventh series and short-printed on every number. Bob Uecker (#594), Sam McDowell and Dick Radatz (#591), Jim Bouton (#592), Bob Veale (#593) and Joe Pepitone, Phil Linz and Rich Rollins (#596) are among the names.
Is 1962 Topps #595 a rookie card?
Yes - #595 is a rookie card for every player pictured on it: Bob Sadowski, Ed Charles, Marlan Coughtry and Felix Torres.
Why is #595 harder to find?
It is a high number card (cards 523-598) from the seventh print series, distributed last and in the smallest quantity - the toughest cards in the set and home to all 42 short prints and the Rookie Parade. It is also a short print card (42 cards, all in 523-598). Printed in smaller quantity than the rest of the seventh series.
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.