1962 Topps #445 Vic Power
The card back lists Power's birth year as 1931; he was actually born November 1, 1927.
Uncorrected error: The back gives the wrong birth year - Power was born in 1927
About Vic Power
Number 445 falls in the fifth series of the 1962 Topps set and is Vic Power's first card as a Minnesota Twin. Cleveland sent him and pitcher Dick Stigman north just before the season opened, taking Pedro Ramos back, after manager Mel McGaha floated a plan to platoon Power at first base. Power answered with his best season in Minnesota: .290 with 177 hits and 16 home runs across 144 games, a fifth straight Gold Glove and the club's Most Valuable Player award. The back of this card gives his birth year as 1931, a full four years late.
Victor Felipe Pellot Pove, who played as Vic Power, was a Puerto Rican first baseman born November 1, 1927, in Arecibo. He led the American Association in hitting at .349 in 1953 for the Yankees' Kansas City farm club, yet New York never promoted him; general manager George Weiss said he was not the Yankee type, and the club chose Elston Howard instead to integrate its roster. Traded to the Philadelphia Athletics in December 1953, Power became the first Puerto Rican to play for that franchise and spent his first spring training barred from his teammates' hotels and restaurants. Over twelve seasons with the Athletics, Indians, Twins, Angels and Phillies he won seven straight Gold Gloves, from the award's 1958 debut through 1964, and was an American League All-Star in four seasons. Power finished at .284 with 1,716 hits, 126 home runs, 658 runs batted in and only 247 strikeouts in 6,046 at-bats.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 202 | 0 | 3 | 61 | 92 | 31 | 9 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 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 #445 card?
It is card #445 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Vic Power of the Minnesota Twins.
Does 1962 Topps #445 have an error?
The back gives the wrong birth year - Power was born in 1927. It was never corrected, so there is no variation to chase - every copy of #445 reads the same way.
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.