1966 Topps #62 Merritt Ranew
About Merritt Ranew
Card #62 is a first series number. It carries the California Angels name, adopted in 1965 ahead of the club's move to Anaheim, and it is the last of his three Topps cards from the decade. Ranew had reached the Angels in 1965, recalled from Triple-A Seattle in June and batting .209 with 19 hits in 41 games. He opened 1966 back at Seattle, hitting .283 through 25 games, when on May 11 a bat struck him over the head in a brawl with the Vancouver Mounties; surgery to relieve a blood clot followed and he missed the rest of the season. Two states exist, one without and one with a sold statement.
Merritt Thomas Ranew, born May 10, 1938 in Albany, Georgia, was a left-handed hitting catcher who spent 15 seasons in professional baseball, five of them in the major leagues. Out of Lee County High School in Leesburg, he signed with the Milwaukee Braves in 1957 and climbed their farm system for five years, batting .347 at Triple-A Louisville in 1961 for his third straight season over .300. On October 10, 1961 Houston took him 17th overall, its ninth selection, in the expansion draft that stocked the Colt .45s. He caught for Houston in 1962, was traded to the Chicago Cubs the next spring, and later passed through the Braves, Angels and Seattle organizations before a last big league turn with the 1969 Seattle Pilots. A bat to the head in a 1966 minor league brawl nearly killed him and cost him a full season. In 269 games he batted .247 with 147 hits, 20 doubles, nine triples, eight home runs and 54 runs batted in. He retired in 1971, then became a well known quarter horse and cutting horse trainer and professional rider in Georgia, Florida and Texas, and co-owned a nightclub in Albany. He died in Valdosta, Georgia on October 18, 2011.
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Print variations
Two states of #62 are tracked individually: 62a - No Sold Statement and 62b - With Sold Statement. The difference is on the back of the card (sold statement).
States catalogued by the PSA master set registry and the Trading Card Database; each is tracked here individually.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 62a - No Sold Statement | |||||||||
| PSA | 136 | 0 | 7 | 34 | 27 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 0 |
| SGC | 10 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 62b - With Sold Statement | |||||||||
| PSA | 205 | 4 | 19 | 76 | 71 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-09-04. Half grades fold down for both graders (8.5→8); PSA qualified slabs (OC, ST, PD, MC and the like) are not counted. Where a grader registers a variation separately its population is listed under that variation. Where SGC registers no separate row for a variation state, its slabs of that card are listed under the base state.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1966 Topps #62 card?
It is card #62 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Merritt Ranew of the California Angels.
Does 1966 Topps #62 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked individually: 62a - No Sold Statement (No sold statement on the back - the base state here) and 62b - With Sold Statement (A line above the stats on the back reports Ranew's sale; the front still shows the Angels). Owning any one of them fills the #62 slot; the master set counts each state.
How many cards are in the 1966 Topps Baseball set?
598 cards, tracked as 613 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 598 with no gaps and no number used twice, and 14 cards carry catalogued print variations - five checklists, the trade and sold statement backs, the three-state #43 Don Landrum, three team-card dot pairs and the #161 Jerry Lumpe white streak - that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, Baseball Almanac, 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 2026-10-11.