1963 Topps #3 1962 National League Home Run Leaders
On this card: Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Ernie Banks, Orlando Cepeda
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
This League Leaders card recaps the 1962 National League home run race. Willie Mays topped the league with 49, followed by Hank Aaron with 45, Frank Robinson with 39, Ernie Banks with 37, and Orlando Cepeda with 35. Mays set career highs in runs and RBI that year for a Giants team that reached the World Series, finishing as the NL MVP runner-up to Los Angeles' Maury Wills. Robinson hit .342 with 39 homers for Cincinnati, a career-best batting average. Card number 3 sits in the 1963 Topps set's first series, part of the League Leaders run shared by all five sluggers.
Willie Mays was the Say Hey Kid, the five-tool center fielder of the New York and San Francisco Giants: Rookie of the Year in 1951, Most Valuable Player in 1954 and 1965, twelve straight Gold Gloves, 660 home runs, Hall of Fame in 1979. 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. 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. Ernie Banks, called Mr. Cub, was the Chicago shortstop and first baseman who won back-to-back NL MVP awards in 1958-59 and hit 512 home runs despite the Cubs never reaching the postseason in his career. Orlando Cepeda, the Baby Bull, was a powerful Puerto Rican first baseman who won Rookie of the Year with the 1958 Giants and the unanimous NL MVP with the 1967 champion Cardinals.
Sources: Wikipedia (Willie Mays) · Wikipedia (Frank Robinson) · Wikipedia (Hank Aaron) · Wikipedia (Ernie Banks) · SABR BioProject (Willie Mays) · SABR BioProject (Hank Aaron) · SABR BioProject (Frank Robinson) · SABR BioProject (Ernie Banks)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,707 | 0 | 17 | 166 | 281 | 345 | 309 | 577 | 12 |
| SGC | 784 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 62 | 119 | 218 | 356 | 15 |
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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Team cards: #417 San Francisco Giants, #503 Milwaukee Braves, #63 Cincinnati Reds, #222 Chicago Cubs
More San Francisco Giants cards:
- #7 1962 National League Pitching Leaders
- #9 1962 National League Strikeout Leaders
- #30 Harvey Kuenn
- #50 Bill Pierce
- #61 Ernie Bowman
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More Milwaukee Braves cards:
- #1 1962 National League Batting Leaders
- #5 1962 National League E.R.A. Leaders
- #46 Tommie Aaron
- #62 Bob Hendley
- #73 Bobby Bragan
- #74 Denver Lemaster
More Cincinnati Reds cards:
- #1 1962 National League Batting 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
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1963 Topps #3 card?
It is card #3 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Ernie Banks and Orlando Cepeda. 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.