1962 Topps #11 Tom Morgan
About Tom Morgan
Year two moved the Angels into Chavez Ravine and Morgan into the closer's job outright: nine saves, most on the staff, with a 5-2 record and a 2.91 earned run average in 48 games and 58 2/3 innings, again all in relief. Fowler worked beside him at 2.81 until his release on September 8. The surprise was the standings: 86-76 and third in the American League, and to this day only one other expansion club has managed a winning record in its second season. This card, number 11, came in the first series.
Tom Stephen Morgan was a right-handed pitcher from El Monte, California, born May 20, 1930, who worked as both a starter and a reliever over twelve major league seasons. Signed by the New York Yankees as an amateur free agent before the 1949 season, he debuted on April 20, 1951 and went 38-22 with 26 saves in his first five years in New York, starting 46 games and relieving in 110 others. He was on three Yankees World Series championship clubs, in 1951, 1952 and 1956, and pitched in the Series in 1952, 1955 and 1956. From 1957 through 1960 he worked mostly in relief for Kansas City, Detroit and Washington, then was acquired by the expansion Los Angeles Angels from the Minnesota Twins on January 31, 1961. Three Angels seasons closed out a career of 67-47 with a 3.61 earned run average, 64 saves and 364 strikeouts in 443 games. He later coached pitchers for the California Angels, the San Diego Padres and the Yankees; Nolan Ryan credited him as the first man to teach him about pitching mechanics. A California farmer, he answered to Plowboy. He died January 13, 1987, in Anaheim at 56.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 189 | 0 | 2 | 75 | 74 | 25 | 7 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #11 card?
It is card #11 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Tom Morgan of the Los Angeles Angels.
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.