1963 Topps #422 Fred Hutchinson
About this card
The nineteen manager cards use the same portrait layout as the players. Twenty clubs, nineteen managers: the Cubs were run by their rotating College of Coaches from 1961 to 1965 and have no manager card.
About Fred Hutchinson
Card #422 places Hutchinson in the fifth series of the 1963 set, a manager card. The season it covers belonged to a rookie second baseman: Pete Rose started on Opening Day, April 8 against Pittsburgh, went hitless in three at-bats and opened 0-for-11 before his first hit, a triple off Bob Friend on April 13, and finished at .273 in 157 games as National League Rookie of the Year. The Reds themselves slipped to 86-76 and fifth place, thirteen games behind the champion Dodgers, and Hutchinson took a contract extension through 1965 that July.
Fred Hutchinson was a Seattle-born right-hander who reached the Detroit Tigers on May 2, 1939 as one of the most hyped prospects of his era, bought out of the Pacific Coast League after a 25-7 year for his hometown Seattle Rainiers. He lost four full seasons to Navy service in World War II, returned in 1946 to begin a run of six straight double-figure win seasons, including 18 in 1947 and 17 in 1950, and made the American League All-Star team in 1951. He finished 95-71 with a 3.73 ERA, and hit .263 as a left-handed swinger used often as a pinch-hitter. Detroit made him player-manager in July 1952; he later took the Seattle Rainiers to the 1955 Pacific Coast League pennant, led the St. Louis Cardinals to second place and The Sporting News Manager of the Year award in 1957, and was summoned to Cincinnati in mid-1959, guiding the Reds to the 1961 National League pennant. Lung cancer killed him in November 1964, weeks after he resigned. Cincinnati retired his No. 1, the first number the club ever retired, and elected him to the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame; his surgeon brother created the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle in his memory.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 219 | 3 | 19 | 117 | 47 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 14 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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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Team card: #63 Cincinnati Reds
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- #29 1963 Rookie Stars
- #37 Jerry Lynch
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1963 Topps #422 card?
It is card #422 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Fred Hutchinson of the Cincinnati Reds. The nineteen manager cards use the same portrait layout as the players. Twenty clubs, nineteen managers: the Cubs were run by their rotating College of Coaches from 1961 to 1965 and have no manager card.
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.