1963 Topps #1 1962 National League Batting Leaders
On this card: Tommy Davis, Frank Robinson, Stan Musial, Bill White, Hank Aaron
About this card
Cards #1-10 are the 1962 League Leaders - the ten cards that open the set, one statistical category per pair with the National League card first and the American League card second: batting (#1-2), home runs (#3-4), earned run average (#5-6), pitching (#7-8) and strikeouts (#9-10).
The story on this card
1963 Topps opens its first series with card #1, the 1962 National League Batting Leaders board. Tommy Davis topped the league with a .346 average, edging Frank Robinson at .342, with Stan Musial third at .330; Bill White and Hank Aaron round out the five men Topps lists on the card. Davis also led the NL in hits with 230 and in RBI with 153 that season, taking the batting crown outright on the strength of that all-around performance. The card groups its five honorees on one board rather than giving each his own card, the format Topps used across its early-series league-leader cards that year, with the Dodgers, Reds, Cardinals and Braves all represented among the five.
Tommy Davis was the first batting champion the Los Angeles Dodgers produced, and his consecutive National League crowns in 1962 and 1963 stand alone in the club's West Coast history before a broken ankle redirected an eighteen-season, ten-organization career. Frank Robinson - Cincinnati's 1961 National League MVP, then Baltimore's 1966 American League Triple Crown winner, MVP and World Series MVP after one of baseball's most lopsided trades; nicknamed "the Judge," he later became the majors' first Black manager. Stan Musial - Stan the Man was St. Louis's left-handed hitting machine for 22 seasons: seven National League batting titles, three MVP awards, three World Series wins, 3,630 hits, every one of them as a Cardinal, and first-ballot Cooperstown in 1969. Bill White - Slick-fielding, left-handed first baseman: seven straight Gold Gloves, eight-time All-Star, a 1964 World Series ring with St. Louis, then 18 years in the Yankees booth and a run as the first Black president of a major sports league. Hank Aaron was the Braves' right fielder and one of the greatest hitters in history, a 25-time All-Star who broke Babe Ruth's home run record in 1974 on his way to 755 career homers.
Sources: Wikipedia (Tommy Davis (outfielder)) · Wikipedia (Frank Robinson) · Wikipedia (Stan Musial) · Wikipedia (Bill White (first baseman)) · SABR BioProject (Tommy Davis 2) · SABR BioProject (Frank Robinson) · SABR BioProject (Bill White 3) · SABR BioProject (Hank Aaron) · National Baseball Hall of Fame
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,374 | 0 | 5 | 127 | 320 | 305 | 237 | 363 | 17 |
| SGC | 381 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 31 | 76 | 114 | 149 | 3 |
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.
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Related cards
Team cards: #337 Los Angeles Dodgers, #63 Cincinnati Reds, #524 St. Louis Cardinals, #503 Milwaukee Braves
More Los Angeles Dodgers cards:
- #5 1962 National League E.R.A. Leaders
- #7 1962 National League Pitching Leaders
- #9 1962 National League Strikeout Leaders
- #11 Lee Walls
- #53 Joe Moeller
- #68 Friendly Foes
More Cincinnati Reds cards:
- #3 1962 National League Home Run Leaders
- #5 1962 National League E.R.A. Leaders
- #7 1962 National League Pitching Leaders
- #21 Marty Keough
- #29 1963 Rookie Stars
- #37 Jerry Lynch
More St. Louis Cardinals cards:
- #5 1962 National League E.R.A. Leaders
- #9 1962 National League Strikeout Leaders
- #22 Curt Simmons
- #49 Dal Maxvill
- #54 1963 Rookie Stars
- #83 Charley James
More Milwaukee Braves cards:
- #3 1962 National League Home Run Leaders
- #5 1962 National League E.R.A. Leaders
- #46 Tommie Aaron
- #62 Bob Hendley
- #73 Bobby Bragan
- #74 Denver Lemaster
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1963 Topps #1 card?
It is card #1 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Tommy Davis, Frank Robinson, Stan Musial, Bill White and Hank Aaron. Cards #1-10 are the 1962 League Leaders - the ten cards that open the set, one statistical category per pair with the National League card first and the American League card second: batting (#1-2), home runs (#3-4), earned run average (#5-6), pitching (#7-8) and strikeouts (#9-10).
How many cards are in the 1963 Topps Baseball set?
576 cards, tracked as 583 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 576 with no gaps and no number used twice, and seven cards carry a catalogued print variation - three checklists, the two Rookie Stars cards also printed with a "1962" heading, and the #341 Jack Baldschun and #454 Art Fowler print states - that the master set counts separately.
Sources: 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.