1963 Topps #402 Mickey Vernon
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 Mickey Vernon
1963 Topps #402 belongs to the fifth series and to the set's manager run, the last of Vernon's three Topps cards in the decade. His third year in Washington barely got going: the club was 14-26 and last in the ten-team American League when he was fired on May 21, 1963. Two days later the Senators traded Jimmy Piersall to the Mets to bring in Gil Hodges as his replacement, and still finished 56-106. Vernon's time in the chair left him 135-227, a .373 winning percentage, though he stayed in the game into the 1980s as a big league coach, a minor league manager and a batting instructor.
James Barton Vernon was called Mickey from about age three, when an aunt in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania borrowed the name from a song the boy played over and over on the family Victrola. Tall, lean and left-handed, he was a first baseman of unusual grace. He spent a year at Villanova, signed first with the St. Louis Browns organization, and became Washington property when Senators super-scout Joe Cambria signed him after the 1937 season. He debuted on July 8, 1939 and lasted 20 big league seasons, losing 1944 and 1945 to the Navy. He won the American League batting title in 1946 at .353, eleven points clear of Ted Williams, then again in 1953 at .337, one point ahead of Al Rosen and enough to deny Rosen the Triple Crown. A seven-time All-Star, he finished with 2,495 hits and a .286 average and held American League career records for first basemen in games, putouts, assists and total chances, plus the major league record for double plays at the position. After stops in Cleveland, Boston and Milwaukee he coached first base for the 1960 champion Pirates, pinch-hit in nine September games to close out his playing days, and took a World Series ring without being eligible to play in the Series itself.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 323 | 0 | 23 | 204 | 72 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 24 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 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 #402 card?
It is card #402 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Mickey Vernon of the Washington Senators. 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.