1963 Topps #7 1962 National League Pitching Leaders
On this card: Don Drysdale, Jack Sanford, Bob Purkey, Joe Jay, Art Mahaffey, Billy O'Dell
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 #7, National League Pitching Leaders, prints the real 1962 race in print series 1. Don Drysdale topped the league at 25-9 with a 2.83 ERA and a league-leading 232 strikeouts for the Los Angeles Dodgers, taking the Cy Young Award and finishing TSN Player and Pitcher of the Year. Jack Sanford went 24-7 for the San Francisco Giants and led them to the World Series against the Yankees, where he threw a Game 2 shutout. Bob Purkey was 23-5 for Cincinnati, his career year, leading all major-league pitchers with an .821 winning percentage. Joe Jay won 21 games for the Reds a second straight season, going 21-14. Art Mahaffey posted 19 wins as the Phillies climbed to 81-80, a 30-game turnaround from their last-place finish the year before, and Billy O'Dell won 19 for San Francisco as Sanford's rotation-mate. The card lists all six by win total, spotlighting a four-team race for the league's most decisions in a wide-open National League season.
Don Drysdale was the Dodgers' intimidating right-hander for 14 seasons, the 1962 Cy Young winner and a three-time World Series champion who in 1968 ran off six straight shutouts and a record 58 2/3 scoreless innings. Jack Sanford was the Phillies' 1957 National League Rookie of the Year and later the Giants' ace, winning 24 games with 16 straight decisions in 1962 and shutting out the Yankees in Game 2 of that World Series. Bob Purkey - Pittsburgh-born knuckleballer who won 129 games in thirteen seasons for the Pirates, Reds, and Cardinals, peaking at 23-5 for Cincinnati in 1962 and losing a complete-game Game Three of the 1961 World Series. Joey Jay, the first Little Leaguer to reach the majors and one of the original bonus babies, blossomed after a trade to Cincinnati and won 21 games in both 1961 and 1962, pitching the Reds to a pennant. Art Mahaffey - Cincinnati-born right-hander who anchored the Phillies rotation in the early 1960s, twice an All-Star and the author of a 17-strikeout club record, before finishing his career with St. Louis. Billy O'Dell was a Clemson-bred lefty who made two All-Star teams with Baltimore and was named most valuable player of the 1958 game, then won a career-high 19 for the pennant-winning 1962 Giants and started Game 1 of that World Series.
Sources: Wikipedia (Don Drysdale) · Wikipedia (Jack Sanford) · Wikipedia (Art Mahaffey) · Wikipedia (Bob Purkey) · SABR BioProject (Bob Purkey) · SABR BioProject (Joey Jay) · SABR BioProject (Don Drysdale) · SABR BioProject (Jack Sanford 2) · National Baseball Hall of Fame
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 538 | 0 | 6 | 137 | 185 | 101 | 52 | 54 | 3 |
| SGC | 64 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 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.
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- #30 Harvey Kuenn
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More Cincinnati Reds cards:
- #1 1962 National League Batting Leaders
- #3 1962 National League Home Run Leaders
- #5 1962 National League E.R.A. Leaders
- #21 Marty Keough
- #29 1963 Rookie Stars
- #37 Jerry Lynch
More Philadelphia Phillies cards:
- #29 1963 Rookie Stars
- #32 Tony Gonzalez
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1963 Topps #7 card?
It is card #7 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Don Drysdale, Jack Sanford, Bob Purkey, Joe Jay, Art Mahaffey and Billy O'Dell. 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.