1962 Topps #317 Stan Musial
The caption on this one counts 1962 as Musial's 21st major league season, measured from his 1941 debut and leaving out 1945, which he spent in the Navy.
About this card
Cards #311-319 are the nine In Action cards, each listed under the player and carrying the headline printed on the front - from Kubek Makes The Double Play at #311 to McCormick Shows His Stuff at #319. Every man pictured also has a regular card in the set.
About Stan Musial
Topps gave Musial two cards in the wood-grain 1962 set. Card #50, his Series One solo issue, followed a .288 season with 15 home runs and 70 RBI in 123 games, 103 of those in left field, plus both of that summer's All-Star Games, since the majors staged two a year from 1959 through 1962. Card #317 belongs to the In Action group Topps ran at #311 through #319, and its caption counts 1962 as his 21st season, correct from his 1941 debut with 1945 lost to the Navy.
Stan Musial spent all 22 of his major league seasons (1941-1944, 1946-1963) with the St. Louis Cardinals, signed out of Donora, Pennsylvania, as a pitcher in 1938 and shifted to the outfield after a 1940 shoulder injury left his throwing arm weak. Hitting left-handed from a famously coiled crouch, he won seven National League batting titles, three Most Valuable Player awards (1943, 1946, 1948) and three World Series (1942, 1944, 1946), and missed the 1945 season for Navy service. He played in 24 All-Star Games, a major league record he shares with Hank Aaron and Willie Mays, and retired in 1963 holding National League career records for hits, runs batted in, games played, at-bats, runs and doubles. He finished at .331 with 3,630 hits, 1,951 RBI and 475 home runs, then second in league history behind Mel Ott's 511. The nickname came from a September 1946 column by St. Louis Post-Dispatch writer Bob Broeg, who reported that Brooklyn fans at Ebbets Field were greeting him with "here comes the man" during that autumn's pennant race. Musial was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969 on the first ballot with 93.2 percent of the vote, served as the Cardinals' general manager through their 1967 championship season, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011.
Sources: Wikipedia · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 650 | 0 | 15 | 101 | 163 | 128 | 96 | 135 | 12 |
| SGC | 140 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 27 | 31 | 50 | 2 |
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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Related cards
More Stan Musial in this set: #50
Team card: #61 St. Louis Cardinals Team
More St. Louis Cardinals cards:
- #14 Bill White
- #19 Ray Washburn
- #28 Minnie Minoso
- #50 Stan Musial
- #83 Larry Jackson
- #106 Carl Sawatski
- #118 Julian Javier
- #149 Bob Duliba
- #167 Tim McCarver
- #198 Johnny Keane
- #202 Carl Warwick
- #223 Alex Grammas
- #241 Johnny Kucks
- #266 John Anderson
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #317 card?
It is card #317 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals. Cards #311-319 are the nine In Action cards, each listed under the player and carrying the headline printed on the front - from Kubek Makes The Double Play at #311 to McCormick Shows His Stuff at #319. Every man pictured also has a regular card in the set.
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.