1962 Topps #62 Steve Boros
About Steve Boros
Two first-series cards carry Boros: his own number 62, and number 72, a combination card that groups him with Detroit manager Bob Scheffing and second baseman Jake Wood. The summer they were sold turned odd for him. His average sank to .228, yet he walked often enough to hold a .331 on-base mark, and his power jumped from five home runs the year before to sixteen. On August 6 in Cleveland he hit three home runs in one game, two of them off Sam McDowell, and the Tigers still lost. Two weeks later came his first big-league grand slam, struck in the first inning against Washington.
Steve Boros grew up in Flint, Michigan, the eldest of five children in a Hungarian-American family; his father had arrived from Hungary alone as a teenager, and his parents opened a small grocery in 1946, with the family living above the store. He played football, basketball and baseball at Flint Northern High School, then hit .324 and .381 in two varsity seasons at the University of Michigan and was an All-Big Ten third baseman in 1957. Teammates elected him captain for the following year, but that June he signed with the Detroit Tigers for a $25,000 bonus, finishing a bachelor's degree in English at odd hours between seasons. He played all or parts of seven major league seasons at third base for the Tigers, Cubs and Reds, batting .245 with 26 home runs and 149 RBIs. His life in the game ran close to fifty years in all: minor league manager, base-stealing instructor, big-league coach, manager of the Athletics and the Padres, then scout and executive, closing with Detroit in 2004. He died in 2010.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 271 | 0 | 3 | 116 | 112 | 28 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| SGC | 19 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 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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Related cards
More Steve Boros in this set: #72 Combo
Team card: #24 Detroit Tigers Team
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- #72 Bob's Pupils
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- #92 Sam Jones
- #105 Don Mossi
- #114 Howie Koplitz
- #150 Al Kaline
- #173 Chico Fernandez
- #196 Terry Fox
- #216 Ron Kline
- #250 Norm Cash
- #261 George Alusik
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #62 card?
It is card #62 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Steve Boros of the Detroit Tigers.
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.