1963 Topps #330 Chuck Hinton
About Chuck Hinton
Hinton turns up twice in the 1963 set. #2 is a first-series League Leaders card that groups him with Pete Runnels, Mickey Mantle, Floyd Robinson and Norm Siebern at the top of the 1962 American League batting list, and it is the only card in his 1960s Topps run that he shares with anyone else. His own portrait is #330, from the fourth series, issued in a year Washington paid him $20,000 to bat second in front of sluggers Don Lock and Jim King. He was leading the club at .280 when Ralph Terry hit him behind the left ear at Yankee Stadium on September 5 and he was carried off unconscious; he missed more than a week, closed at .269, and still stole 25 bases.
Charles Edward Hinton Jr. (1934-2013) was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, played three sports at Shaw University, and signed with the Baltimore Orioles in 1956 after hitchhiking to an open tryout at Griffith Stadium. He won back-to-back Class C batting titles at Aberdeen in 1959 and Stockton in 1960, and the new Washington club took him with the 46th pick of the December 1960 expansion draft. A right-handed hitter who eventually played every position except pitcher, Hinton was the first African American player to star for the Washington Senators, and he later spent six seasons with the Cleveland Indians and one with the California Angels. Over eleven years he batted .264 with 1,048 hits, 113 home runs and 443 RBI in 1,353 games, and he remains the last Washington Senator to bat .300. He coached Howard University baseball from 1972 to 2000, leading the Bison to their first Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference championship, and in 1982 he helped found the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association with Brooks Robinson and two former Washington teammates. He died in Washington, D.C., in 2013 and is honored on the Washington Hall of Stars at RFK Stadium.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 207 | 0 | 9 | 105 | 69 | 18 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 11 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 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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Related cards
More Chuck Hinton in this set: #2 League Leaders
Team card: #131 Washington Senators
More Washington Senators cards:
- #2 1962 American League Batting Leaders
- #47 Don Lock
- #69 Bud Zipfel
- #94 Bob Schmidt
- #121 Jim Hannan
- #149 Marv Breeding
- #158 1963 Rookie Stars
- #171 Steve Hamilton
- #176 Jim King
- #219 Chuck Cottier
- #243 Don Leppert
- #263 Dave Stenhouse
- #276 Barry Shetrone
- #291 Don Rudolph
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1963 Topps #330 card?
It is card #330 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Chuck Hinton of the 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.