1963 Topps #96 Lou Clinton
About Lou Clinton
Clinton appears early in 1963 Topps at #96, a first series card, and he is once more in a Boston Red Sox uniform. The season behind it was the best of his career. Back in the majors for good, he was the club's regular right fielder in 114 games, batted .294 with 18 home runs and 75 runs batted in, and finished third on the team in average, two points behind Carl Yastrzemski. The high point came on July 13, 1962 in Kansas City, where he hit for the cycle, went 5-for-7 and drove in the winning run in a 15-inning Red Sox victory.
Luciean Louis Clinton, an Oklahoma-born outfielder who batted and threw right-handed, spent parts of eight major league seasons (1960-1967) with five American League clubs: the Boston Red Sox, the Los Angeles and California Angels, the Kansas City Athletics, the Cleveland Indians and the New York Yankees. Signed by Boston as an amateur free agent in 1955, straight out of Ponca City High School in Oklahoma, he debuted on April 22, 1960 and went on to play right field in 603 of his 691 career games. His best year came in 1962, when he hit for the cycle against Kansas City and set a career high with a .294 batting average, though his peak home run total came a year later. Across eight seasons he batted .247 with 65 home runs and 269 RBIs. The Yankees sold his contract to Philadelphia in May 1967 and he finished that year at Triple-A San Diego, then retired to run an oil business in Wichita, Kansas, where he also became an outstanding amateur golfer and a regular contender in local and state tournaments. The Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame elected him in its class of 1987, and he died in Wichita in 1997 at the age of 60.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 252 | 0 | 3 | 80 | 95 | 55 | 9 | 10 | 0 |
| SGC | 20 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 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 #96 card?
It is card #96 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Lou Clinton of the Boston Red Sox.
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.