1962 Topps #592 Rookie Parade Pitchers
On this card: Dan Pfister, Bo Belinsky, Joe Bonikowski, Jim Bouton, Dave Stenhouse
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
Card #592 is a Rookie Parade entry, a short-printed seventh-series high number that Pfister shares with Bo Belinsky, Joe Bonikowski, Jim Bouton and Dave Stenhouse, and it is his recognized rookie card. It landed in his one full big-league year. He opened 1962 in the Kansas City bullpen, drew an emergency start at Detroit on April 24 and threw an eight-inning three-hitter, losing 1-0 to Don Mossi in what he later called the best game he ever pitched. Six straight losses followed before his first win, 2-1 at Washington on June 26. He finished 4-14 with a 4.54 ERA, 123 strikeouts and 106 walks in 196 1/3 innings, second on the staff to Ed Rakow's 235 1/3. Dan Pfister pitched four seasons for the Kansas City Athletics, going 6-19 with a 4.87 ERA before elbow trouble ended him at 28, then went home to Hollywood, Florida as a fireman and a National Senior Softball Hall of Famer.
Belinsky's rookie card is 1962 Topps #592, a Rookie Parade pitchers panel he shares with Dan Pfister, Joe Bonikowski, Jim Bouton and Dave Stenhouse, and it sits in the short-printed seventh series among the set's scarce high numbers. Behind it is his 1961 breakout at Double-A Little Rock, where he led the Southern Association with 182 strikeouts in 174 innings and once fanned 18 over 11 innings before announcing he was quitting to study electronics. Baltimore left him off its 40-man roster, the Angels grabbed him in the Rule 5 draft on November 27, and he went 13-5 with a 2.13 ERA for Pampero in Venezuela that winter. Bo Belinsky was the Angels' left-handed rookie sensation who no-hit Baltimore on May 5, 1962, then became baseball's flashiest playboy pitcher, dating Hollywood stars through a swift decline across five clubs to a last big-league stop with the Reds in 1970.
Bonikowski shares 1962 Topps #592, a Rookie Parade card of pitchers, with Dan Pfister, Bo Belinsky, Jim Bouton and Dave Stenhouse. It belongs to the set's seventh and final print series and is a short-printed high number, one of the harder stops on the 1962 checklist. It is a recognized rookie card, and it is the only Topps card Bonikowski has in the 1961-1969 run - issued the same spring he made the Twins' Opening Day roster and won his April 12 debut with 5 2/3 innings of relief against Kansas City. Joe Bonikowski, a right-handed pitcher out of Philadelphia, made the Minnesota Twins' 1962 Opening Day roster at 21 and went 5-7 with a 3.88 ERA in his only big-league season, one summer out of a seven-year pro career.
Bouton's only card in the 1962 Topps set is #592, a Rookie Parade card out of the short-printed series-7 high numbers, and it is his recognized rookie card. He shares the front with four other young pitchers: Dan Pfister, Bo Belinsky, Joe Bonikowski and Dave Stenhouse. He had debuted for New York on April 22 and finished the year 7-7 with a 3.99 ERA in 36 games, 16 of them starts. The Yankees beat San Francisco in that fall's World Series without him; he had been slated to start Game 7 until rain pushed the game back a day and Ralph Terry took the ball instead. Jim Bouton was the Yankees' Bulldog, a hard-throwing right-hander who won 21 games in 1963 and both of his 1964 World Series starts before an arm injury remade him as a knuckleballer and, in Ball Four, baseball's most notorious diarist.
Stenhouse shares this Rookie Parade card with Dan Pfister, Bo Belinsky, Joe Bonikowski and Jim Bouton, and it is the recognized Stenhouse rookie card. The season behind it was the best he ever had: 11-12 with a 3.65 ERA across 34 games and 197 innings for Washington. He was 10-4 when the American League handed him the ball to start the second All-Star Game of the year, July 30 at Wrigley Field, a late switch after Camilo Pascual turned up with a sore elbow. He gave up one run in two innings and left for pinch-hitter Pete Runnels, who homered to tie a game the American League won 9-4. Right-hander who pitched three seasons for the Washington Senators from 1962 to 1964. As a rookie he went 11-12 and started the second 1962 All-Star Game at Wrigley Field, the first rookie to do so.
Sources: Wikipedia (Dan Pfister) · Wikipedia (Bo Belinsky) · Wikipedia (Joe Bonikowski) · Wikipedia (Jim Bouton) · SABR BioProject (Bo Belinsky) · SABR BioProject (Jim Bouton)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 876 | 0 | 14 | 184 | 266 | 178 | 117 | 113 | 4 |
| SGC | 195 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 43 | 44 | 46 | 44 | 4 |
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 #592 card?
It is card #592 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dan Pfister, Bo Belinsky, Joe Bonikowski, Jim Bouton and Dave Stenhouse. 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 #592 a rookie card?
Yes - #592 is a rookie card for every player pictured on it: Dan Pfister, Bo Belinsky, Joe Bonikowski, Jim Bouton and Dave Stenhouse.
Why is #592 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.