1962 Topps #226 San Francisco Giants Team
Hall of Famers on the 1961 San Francisco Giants roster: Orlando Cepeda, Juan Marichal, Willie Mays and Willie McCovey.
About this card
This is one of the eighteen team cards in the set. Neither 1962 expansion club, the New York Mets or the Houston Colt .45s, has one.
The story on this card
Card 226 is the San Francisco Giants team card in the 1962 Topps set, a print series 3 card. It reports the 1961 club, third in the National League at 85-69 under first-year manager Alvin Dark, eight games behind the champion Cincinnati Reds. Orlando Cepeda led the league with 46 home runs and 142 RBIs, Willie Mays hit 40 including a four-homer game on April 30, and it remains the only Giants season with two 40-homer men. Cepeda and Willie McCovey shuttled between first base and the outfield; Juan Marichal went 13-10. Candlestick Park, in its second season, hosted the first of that summer's two All-Star Games. Four Hall of Famers on one roster: Cepeda, Marichal, Mays and McCovey.
Sources: Wikipedia (1961 San Francisco Giants season) · Wikipedia (Juan Marichal) · Wikipedia (Alvin Dark) · Wikipedia (1961 Major League Baseball All-Star Game (first game)) · SABR BioProject
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 338 | 1 | 9 | 135 | 113 | 44 | 20 | 15 | 1 |
| SGC | 30 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 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 #226 card?
It is card #226 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing the San Francisco Giants. This is one of the eighteen team cards in the set. Neither 1962 expansion club, the New York Mets or the Houston Colt .45s, has one.
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.