1963 Topps #222 Chicago Cubs
Hall of Famers on the 1962 Chicago Cubs roster: Ernie Banks, Lou Brock, Ron Santo and Billy Williams.
About this card
The twenty team cards, one for every 1963 club, are the only horizontal fronts in the set. Every franchise has one, including the Houston Colt .45's, the Los Angeles Angels and the expansion Washington Senators.
The story on this card
Card 222 in the 1963 Topps set is the Chicago Cubs team card, part of print series 3. It reports on the prior 1962 season, a rough one: under the club's rotating College of Coaches system, with Lou Klein, El Tappe, and Charlie Metro all taking turns running the bench, the Cubs finished 59-103, ninth in the ten-team National League and 42.5 games behind the pennant-winning San Francisco Giants. Only the expansion New York Mets finished behind Chicago. Even in a last-place season the roster panel carried four future Hall of Famers - Ernie Banks, Lou Brock, Ron Santo, and Billy Williams - the core the front office was building around as the coaching-committee experiment wound down heading into 1963.
Sources: Wikipedia (1962 Chicago Cubs season) · Wikipedia (College of Coaches)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 340 | 0 | 6 | 120 | 108 | 48 | 31 | 24 | 3 |
| SGC | 21 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 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 #222 card?
It is card #222 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing the Chicago Cubs. The twenty team cards, one for every 1963 club, are the only horizontal fronts in the set. Every franchise has one, including the Houston Colt .45's, the Los Angeles Angels and the expansion Washington Senators.
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.