1962 Topps #196 Terry Fox
About Terry Fox
Card #196 closes the second series. It comes two ways: the standard printing and a green-tint version from the reprint Topps ordered at a second plant when demand outran the first run. Behind it is 1961 - 5-2, 12 saves and a staff-best 1.41 ERA in 39 games for a Tiger club that won 101 and still finished second - and September 17, when Roger Maris took him deep for his 58th home run in the twelfth.
Terry Fox was a right-handed relief pitcher who spent seven major league seasons, 1960 through 1966, with the Milwaukee Braves, Detroit Tigers and Philadelphia Phillies. Born July 31, 1935, in Chicago and raised in Midlothian, he graduated from Thornton Township High School in Harvey, Illinois, in 1953 and took a Class C contract from the Atlanta Crackers after four tryout camps; the Braves picked him out of the Atlanta organization at no cost after the 1955 season. Two summers with the New Iberia Pelicans of the Evangeline League made his name, 13-4 in the first and 21-12 in the second, and Atlanta, Jacksonville, Topeka, Austin and Sacramento followed before Milwaukee called him up in September 1960. That December the Braves shipped him to Detroit with Bill Bruton, Dick Brown and Chuck Cottier for Frank Bolling and Neil Chrisley, and he became the Tigers' late-inning man for five seasons, leading the club in saves in 1961, 1962, 1963 and 1965. He never started a major league game: all 248 of his appearances came out of the bullpen, and he finished 29-19 with a 2.99 ERA, 59 saves and 185 strikeouts. Fox settled in New Iberia, married Loreauville native Shirley Dugas and spent 26 years with Texaco starting in 1968.
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Print variations
Two states of #196 are tracked individually: 196a - No Green Tint and 196b - Green Tint. The difference is on the front of the card (green tint).
States catalogued by the PSA master set registry; each is tracked here individually.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 196a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 195 | 0 | 2 | 47 | 77 | 45 | 11 | 13 | 0 |
| SGC | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 196b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 50 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 24 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 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. Where a grader registers a variation separately its population is listed under that variation. 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 #196 card?
It is card #196 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Terry Fox of the Detroit Tigers.
Does 1962 Topps #196 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 196a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 196b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #196 slot; the master set counts each state.
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.