1973 Topps #562 Wayne Garrett
About Wayne Garrett
The 1972 season was one of injuries: a strained shoulder and pulled hamstring in spring training, and a delayed start under new manager Yogi Berra after Gil Hodges died. Garrett still played 82 games at third and hit .232 with four game-winning RBIs. Card #562, a high number from the fifth series, shows him with the Mets.
Wayne Garrett was a left-handed-hitting third baseman who spent seven and a half seasons with the New York Mets, played 711 games at third base for them, and finished with the Montreal Expos and St. Louis Cardinals. A sixth-round pick of the Milwaukee Braves in 1965, he came to the Mets through the Rule 5 draft for $25,000 and made the 1969 roster as a utility man. The club kept shopping for a replacement almost every winter, bringing in Joe Foy, Bob Aspromonte, Jim Fregosi and Joe Torre, yet he took the job in 1973 and kept most of it through 1975. He played in two World Series with the Mets, homering twice against Oakland in 1973, once leading off Game 3, and he was the cutoff man on the Ball on the Wall play at Shea on September 20, 1973. The Mets sent him to Montreal in 1976, the Expos sold him to St. Louis in July 1978, and he finished his career with two seasons for the Chunichi Dragons in Japan.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 185 | 4 | 47 | 107 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| SGC | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 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 1973 Topps #562 card?
It is card #562 of the 660-card 1973 Topps Baseball set, picturing Wayne Garrett of the New York Mets.
Why is #562 harder to find?
It is a high number card from the fifth and last print series, #529-660 - the scarce end of the set.
How many cards are in the 1973 Topps Baseball set?
660 cards, tracked as 679 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 660 with none skipped, in five series of 132 - #1-132, #133-264, #265-396, #397-528 and the high numbers, #529-660, printed in lower quantities; 19 cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately - fifteen Field Leaders cards, the #20 Stan Bahnsen, #31 Buddy Bell and #504 Earl Williams border-gap pairs and the two #280 Al Kaline printings.
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.