1962 Topps #167 Tim McCarver
About Tim McCarver
Card #167 is McCarver's rookie card and one of the second series' keys, a plain base card. It follows a 1961 season split between the International League and St. Louis, where the teenaged catcher hit .239 in 67 at-bats and connected for his first home run on July 13, a solo shot off Milwaukee's Tony Cloninger. Collectors chase two states of the card: one without the green tint that colors the other.
James Timothy McCarver signed with the St. Louis Cardinals out of Memphis in 1959 for a $75,000 bonus, turning down a football scholarship, and debuted that September at 17. A left-handed hitter who threw right-handed, he shuttled between St. Louis and the minors for four seasons before taking the catching job for good in 1963. From there he was the everyday catcher on the best National League club of the decade: Bob Gibson's preferred battery mate, a World Series winner in 1964 and 1967, and a seven-game loser to Detroit in 1968. He made All-Star teams in 1966 and 1967 and finished runner-up to teammate Orlando Cepeda for the 1967 National League MVP award. Traded to Philadelphia after the 1969 season, he later played for Montreal, St. Louis again and Boston before returning to the Phillies as Steve Carlton's personal catcher, a job that stretched his career into a fourth decade in 1980. He retired with a .271 average, 97 home runs and 645 RBI over 21 seasons, then built a second career in the broadcast booth that outlasted his playing days, calling a then-record 23 World Series and winning the Ford C. Frick Award in 2012. The Cardinals inducted him into their team Hall of Fame in 2017; he died in 2023.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Print variations
Two states of #167 are tracked individually: 167a - No Green Tint and 167b - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 167a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 950 | 1 | 9 | 149 | 274 | 252 | 123 | 141 | 1 |
| SGC | 196 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 34 | 50 | 52 | 44 | 3 |
| 167b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 206 | 2 | 12 | 28 | 44 | 37 | 37 | 45 | 1 |
| SGC | 43 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 1 |
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 #167 card?
It is card #167 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Tim McCarver of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Is 1962 Topps #167 a rookie card?
Yes - #167 is the 1962 Topps rookie card of Tim McCarver.
Does 1962 Topps #167 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 167a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 167b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #167 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.