1962 Topps #593 Rookie Parade Pitchers
On this card: Jack Lamabe, Craig Anderson, Bob Veale, Bob Moorhead, Jack Hamilton
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
Lamabe's lone 1962 Topps appearance is #593, "Rookie Parade Pitchers," a short-printed series-7 high number that groups him with Craig Anderson, Bob Veale, Bob Moorhead and Jack Hamilton and serves as his rookie card. He had spent 1961 in the Triple-A International League, relieving for the Columbus Jets and going 3-4 with a 2.88 ERA in 36 games. Promoted to Pittsburgh, he debuted at Wrigley Field on April 17 and matched that 2.88 exactly across 46 appearances and 78 innings, going 3-1. Jack Lamabe was a well-traveled right-handed reliever who pitched for seven clubs from 1962 to 1968, going 33-41 with a 4.24 ERA and winning a ring with the 1967 world champion Cardinals after a midseason rescue from the last-place Mets.
Card 593 is a series-seven high number, short-printed and tough, and it is Anderson's recognized rookie card - a Rookie Parade front he shares with Jack Lamabe, Bob Veale, Bob Moorhead and Jack Hamilton. The season behind it ran 3-17 with four saves and a 5.35 ERA across 50 games and 14 starts. Two of those three wins landed in the same afternoon: May 12 at the Polo Grounds, where he relieved in both ends of a doubleheader against the Milwaukee Braves and won them both, the first Mets pitcher to take two in a day and the first doubleheader the club ever swept. He lost his last 16 decisions after it. A Washington, D.C. product and Lehigh's all-time earned run average leader, he was an original Met who lost his last 19 big-league decisions, then spent 34 years back at Lehigh as an administrator and pitching coach.
Veale's first Topps card is a five-player group shot: #593, from the Rookie Parade run at the back of the 1962 set, sharing the front with Jack Lamabe, Craig Anderson, Bob Moorhead and Jack Hamilton. It is a seventh-series high number, short-printed and tough, and it is the recognized Veale rookie card. Pittsburgh had seen enough in 1961, when he struck out a league-leading 208 for the Columbus Jets, to bring him north the next spring. Bob Veale was a towering, hard-throwing left-hander who terrorized National League hitters for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1960s, leading the league in strikeouts in 1964, making two All-Star teams, and helping Pittsburgh win the 1971 World Series.
Card #593 is one of the 1962 Rookie Parade panels, the pitchers' group, and it sits deep in the short-printed seventh series - a genuine high number and a recognized rookie card. Moorhead shares the front with Jack Lamabe, Craig Anderson, Bob Veale and Jack Hamilton. He earned the spot in the Mets' first summer: he relieved in the franchise's opening game at St. Louis on April 11, 1962, one of four pitchers Casey Stengel used in an 11-4 loss, and worked three innings, giving up six hits and a walk, five runs but only two earned. He finished the year 0-2 with a 4.53 ERA in 38 games, seven of them starts. One of the original 1962 Mets, Bob Moorhead was a right-hander from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania who pitched in the franchise's first game, made seven starts that summer, and closed a two-season career at 0-3 in 47 games.
Hamilton's rookie card is a group shot: #593, 'Rookie Parade Pitchers,' which puts him on one front with Jack Lamabe, Craig Anderson, Bob Veale and Bob Moorhead. It reached collectors during his rookie summer with the Phillies, the heaviest workload of his career at 182 innings, more than he would throw in any other major league season. Jack Hamilton was a hard-throwing, wild right-hander who pitched for six teams between 1962 and 1969, going 32-40, remembered today for the August 1967 fastball that fractured Tony Conigliaro's cheekbone and cost the young slugger a season and a half.
Sources: Wikipedia (Jack Lamabe) · Wikipedia (Craig Anderson (1960s pitcher)) · Wikipedia (Bob Veale) · Wikipedia (Bob Moorhead) · SABR BioProject (Jack Lamabe) · SABR BioProject (Craig Anderson) · SABR BioProject (Bob Veale)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 598 | 0 | 12 | 119 | 190 | 132 | 69 | 74 | 2 |
| SGC | 117 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 24 | 30 | 29 | 14 | 8 |
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 #593 card?
It is card #593 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jack Lamabe, Craig Anderson, Bob Veale, Bob Moorhead and Jack Hamilton. 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 #593 a rookie card?
Yes - #593 is a rookie card for every player pictured on it: Jack Lamabe, Craig Anderson, Bob Veale, Bob Moorhead and Jack Hamilton.
Why is #593 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.