1963 Topps #351 Al Luplow
Topps printed its All-Star Rookie trophy on the front of this card, the award Luplow earned for his 1962 season.
About Al Luplow
Card 351 sits in the fourth series and shows Luplow in a Cleveland uniform. Its design carries the Topps All-Star Rookie trophy, awarded to him for 1962, when a strong spring convinced the Indians to trade Vic Power to Minnesota and hand him left field. He played 68 games there and 26 in right, hit .277 with 14 home runs and 45 runs batted in, and was the club's leading hitter at .310 on July 5 before a pulled thigh muscle cost him sixteen games. A separated shoulder, suffered on a tumbling catch against Kansas City, ended his season ten games early.
Alvin David Luplow Jr., born in Saginaw, Michigan on March 13, 1939, was a Michigan State halfback who scored a touchdown on his first varsity carry before baseball won out. He left East Lansing in May 1959, with the Spartans' baseball season still running, to sign a Cleveland bonus contract reported at $35,000 or more, a departure that helped push the major leagues to bar the signing of college players during the school year. A left-handed hitter who threw right-handed and chased fly balls with no regard for walls, he debuted with the Indians on September 16, 1961 and played seven seasons through 1967 for Cleveland, the New York Mets and the Pittsburgh Pirates, batting .235 with 292 hits, 33 home runs and 125 runs batted in over 481 games. He is best remembered for June 27, 1963 at Fenway Park, when he flew over the low right-center bullpen wall to backhand a would-be game-tying home run off the bat of Dick Williams, a catch broadcaster Curt Gowdy called the greatest he had ever seen. Back home in Saginaw afterward he sold real estate, worked as an appraiser and coached youth baseball. He was in the first class of the Saginaw County Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 and died in Saginaw on December 28, 2017.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 190 | 0 | 5 | 88 | 66 | 20 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 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.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1963 Topps #351 card?
It is card #351 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Al Luplow of the Cleveland Indians.
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.