1972 Topps #652 Marcelino Lopez
About Marcelino Lopez
Lopez reached Milwaukee in a spring-training trade in 1971, with Roric Harrison and minor leaguer Marion Jackson going the other way. He opened the season in the bullpen, moved into the rotation midway through and went 1-5 as a starter, finishing 2-7 with a 4.66 ERA. Cleveland bought his contract the next spring, and he spent 1972 at Triple-A Portland before four September appearances with the Indians. Topps lists him with the Brewers on #652, a fifth-series card.
Marcelino Pons Lopez, a left-handed pitcher born in Havana, Cuba on September 23, 1943, signed with the Philadelphia Phillies ten days after his sixteenth birthday and reached the majors in 1963 as a hard-throwing teenager. He spent 1964 in the minors, and that October the Phillies sent him to the Los Angeles Angels as the player to be named later in the Vic Power deal. In 1965 he went 14-13 with a 2.93 ERA and finished second in American League Rookie of the Year voting. Arm trouble and control problems followed, and in June 1967 the Angels traded him to the Baltimore Orioles. Converted into a reliever, he pitched for the pennant-winning Orioles of 1969 and 1970 and helped Baltimore win the 1970 World Series, appearing once in each of those postseasons. He later pitched for the Milwaukee Brewers and Cleveland Indians, finishing with a 31-40 record, a 3.62 ERA and 426 strikeouts across eight big-league seasons. He died in Hialeah, Florida in 2001 at 58.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 341 | 45 | 113 | 132 | 32 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-10-19. Half grades fold down for both graders (8.5→8); PSA qualified slabs (OC, ST, PD, MC and the like) are not counted.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1972 Topps #652 card?
It is card #652 of the 787-card 1972 Topps Baseball set, picturing Marcelino Lopez of the Milwaukee Brewers.
How many cards are in the 1972 Topps Baseball set?
787 cards, tracked as 794 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 787 with none skipped, in six print series (#1-132, #133-263, #264-394, #395-525, #526-656 and #657-787, the high numbers); 7 cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately - four Chicago Cubs cards with yellow or green under the "C" and "S" of the team name, the #251 and #478 checklists with smaller or larger print on the front, and the #604 checklist with its copyright line aligned right or left.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, BaseballCardPedia, 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 2026-10-25.