{"title":"Roger Maris Graded Baseball Cards","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoger Maris is remembered by collectors for his celebrated career as an outfielder in Major League Baseball, and his vintage Topps cards remain a favorite target for anyone assembling a run of his early issues. Cards from his playing years carry the look and feel of the era, from bold Topps design to the simple graphics of late-1950s and early-1960s cardboard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis selection includes graded examples spanning several years of Topps production, among them a 1959 Topps #202 white back second-year card graded PSA 5, a 1964 Topps #225 graded PSA 6, a 1961 Topps #2 graded PSA 5, a 1962 Topps #1 graded PSA 3, and a 1960 Topps #377 graded PSA 4. Buyers should look closely at the PSA grade and label details, along with the card number and year, since these Topps issues vary in condition and centering from card to card.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"graded-1964-topps-roger-maris-225-baseball-card-psa-6-ex-mt","title":"Graded 1964 Topps Roger Maris #225 Baseball Card PSA 6 EX-MT","description":"\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003eVintage 1964 Topps Roger Maris #225 Baseball Card PSA 6 EX-MT – The Professional Sports Authenticator PSA 6 EX-MT Certified 1964 Topps Baseball Card of Roger Maris, Card Number 225, Two-Time American League MVP and the Man Who Hit 61 Home Runs in 1961 to Break Babe Ruth's Most Legendary Record in Baseball\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ The year is 1961. The American League has just expanded its season from 154 games to 162 games, a fact that will generate controversy before the year ends. Roger Maris, right fielder for the New York Yankees, is chasing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record of 60 – a number that has stood since 1927 and that has carried, across those three and a half decades, the weight of the impossible. Mickey Mantle is chasing it alongside him for much of the summer before injury removes him from the race. The media pressure, the crowd attention, and the deliberate controversy manufactured around whether the expanded schedule should carry an asterisk if someone reached 61 transforms a baseball season into a national referendum. On the final day of the season, October 1, 1961, Roger Maris hits his 61st home run off Boston's Tracy Stallard. The record stands. The 1964 Topps card number 225, graded PSA 6 EX-MT – capturing Maris in his Yankee uniform three years after the most famous season in the history of the position – is a certified vintage piece of one of baseball's most celebrated careers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Roger Eugene Maris was born on September 10, 1934, in Hibbing, Minnesota, and built a career before and after 1961 that often gets obscured by the single-year record: a two-time American League Most Valuable Player (1960 and 1961), a World Series champion with the Yankees in 1961 and 1962, one of the most complete right fielders of his era. PSA 6 EX-MT is the grade that certifies the card presents with slight surface wear consistent with a six-decade-old piece of cardstock handled with care – a high-grade certified example of a vintage card that every Maris collector, every Yankees collection, and every baseball history archive will recognize immediately. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Roger Maris. Hibbing, Minnesota. New York Yankees. Right Field. Two-Time AL MVP. 61 Home Runs. 1961. Babe Ruth's Record. World Series Champion. 1964 Topps. Card #225. PSA 6 EX-MT. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039560020200,"sku":"1964-T-RM-225-PSA-6","price":349.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/graded-1964-topps-roger-maris-225-baseball-card-psa-6-ex-mt-vintage-treasures-antique-232.webp?v=1770229133"},{"product_id":"graded-1961-topps-roger-maris-2-baseball-card-psa-5-excellent","title":"Graded 1961 Topps Roger Maris #2 Baseball Card PSA 5 Excellent","description":"\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003eGraded 1961 Topps Roger Maris #2 Baseball Card PSA 5 Excellent – The 1961 Topps Card of New York Yankees Right Fielder Roger Maris, Card #2 in the Set, PSA 5 Excellent Certified, a Piece of Vintage Cardboard from the Year That Produced the Most Celebrated Home Run Season in Major League Baseball History and One of the Most Enduring Records in American Sports\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ In the summer of 1961, two New York Yankees were chasing Babe Ruth. Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris had both started the season hitting home runs at a pace that made Ruth's 60 – the single-season record that had stood since 1927 – seem reachable for the first time since Ruth set it. Mantle's injuries slowed his chase in September. Maris kept going. On October 1, 1961, in the final game of the season, Roger Maris hit his 61st home run off Tracy Stallard of the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. The record was broken. The number was 61. And a card bearing Maris's image in the 1961 Topps set – card #2, produced in the year the record fell – is one of the most historically significant cards in the vintage baseball collecting market. ⚾\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ A PSA 5 Excellent grade on a 64-year-old piece of cardboard is a meaningful assessment. The card has been handled. It has lived. It has traveled from whatever pack or collection it began in to the present. PSA 5 means the card presents well – the image of Maris is recognizable and clear, the surface is intact, the corners show wear that reflects honest age rather than damage. For collectors who want a piece of 1961 that can be displayed, appreciated, and understood as genuine vintage cardboard from the year of the home run record, PSA 5 is the grade that delivers both authenticity and presentability. ⚾\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Roger Maris. New York Yankees. Right Field. 1961 AL MVP. 61 Home Runs in 1961 (Single-Season Record at the Time). 2x AL MVP (1960, 1961). 2x World Series Champion (1961, 1962). 1961 Topps Card #2. PSA 5 Excellent. Hall of Fame Sports. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ 1961 Topps Roger Maris #2 Baseball Card PSA 5 Excellent. Hall of Fame Sports. 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In 1962, Topps assigned the #1 slot in its annual baseball card set to the reigning American League Most Valuable Player – and in 1962, that player was Roger Maris of the New York Yankees, who had just completed the most famous individual offensive season in the history of the sport. Card #1 was the designation Topps reserved for the player the baseball world had been watching most closely, and in 1962, there was no question. Roger Maris was #1. 🏆\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Roger Eugene Maris was born September 10, 1934, in Hibbing, Minnesota – the same northern Minnesota town that would later produce Bob Dylan, though Maris grew up mostly in Fargo, North Dakota, where the open landscape and the rhythms of midwestern life shaped the quiet, intensely private personality that would later put him at odds with the scrutiny of New York. He was not built for the spotlight. He was built for baseball. A powerful right-handed hitter with exceptional instincts in right field, a cannon arm, and the capacity to drive pitches from any zone over and beyond the fence in left, Maris was the kind of player whose contributions extended across every dimension of the game while he let his bat do all the talking the spotlight demanded. 🌟\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ He came up through the Cleveland Indians organization and spent time with the Kansas City Athletics before the Yankees acquired him in 1959. The trade gave the Yankees exactly what they needed: a left-handed power threat to complement Mickey Mantle in the heart of the lineup, a Gold Glove right fielder who could cover the spacious Yankee Stadium outfield, and a player whose professionalism and intelligence in the batter's box made him the kind of teammate championship teams are built around. In 1960, Maris won the American League Most Valuable Player Award, hitting .283 with 39 home runs and leading the AL in RBI. The best in the American League – and 1961 had not yet arrived. ⚾\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ What Roger Maris did in 1961 has never been equaled in the American League. He hit 61 home runs in a single season – breaking the mark of 60 that Babe Ruth had set in 1927 and that had stood for 34 years as the most celebrated individual achievement in baseball. The chase consumed the summer. Every start, every at-bat in the final weeks of the season was national news. The question of whether Maris or Mantle – teammates, rivals in pursuit of the same record – would overtake Ruth first dominated the conversation from July through October. Mantle hit 54 before injuries slowed him. Maris kept going. 🏟️\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ The 1962 Topps set captures Maris at the precise moment of his greatest fame – the reigning AL MVP, the freshly crowned single-season home run champion, the most prominent figure in American baseball at a time when baseball was the unquestioned national sport. The #1 assignment was the hobby's acknowledgment of that standing. Sixty-four years later, the 1962 Topps Roger Maris #1 is a vintage card with genuine historical weight. It documents a specific chapter of baseball history on cardboard produced while that chapter was still unfolding, by a card company that understood what it was preserving. 🎴\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ PSA 3 – Very Good. This is the grade assigned by Professional Sports Authenticator to a card that shows wear consistent with a 64-year-old piece of printed cardboard that survived six decades of handling, storage, and the natural passage of time. A PSA 3 is an authentic copy: the card is confirmed as genuine, the surface image clear, the identity of card and player established and certified. For a vintage card from 1962, PSA 3 represents a piece of certified baseball history in an accessible grade that places this Maris #1 in reach of collectors building genuine vintage holdings without the premium of higher-grade examples. ⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ The set builder who needs a Maris #1 for a 1962 Topps registry set. The Yankees collector building a complete wall of authenticated franchise history. The baseball fan whose father talked about the summer of 1961 the way people talk about events that rewire how a country understands what one player can do in one season. The first card in the 1962 set belongs in a collection that cares where baseball has been. This is that card. 🏆\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Roger Maris. Right Field. New York Yankees. Hibbing, Minnesota. 1961 AL MVP. 61 Home Runs. Single-Season American League Record. 1962 Topps #1. PSA 3 Very Good. Collectible Trading Cards. Hall of Fame Sports. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Vintage 1962 Topps Roger Maris #1 PSA 3 New York Yankees Baseball Card. Hall of Fame Sports. 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The 1961 season was still one year away. The 61 home runs were still one year away. The assault on Babe Ruth's thirty-four-year-old record and the controversy of the Commissioner's asterisk were still one year away. The 1960 Topps card captures Maris at the precise moment of peak excellence just before the record chase – the MVP year, the powerful right field swing, the Yankees dynasty years that made him and Mantle the most feared offensive duo in the American League. The PSA 4 VG-EX grade documents a card that survived over sixty-five years, consistent with a card that circulated through collections and hands across those decades. 🌟\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in 1961. For decades afterward, the record was disputed, asterisked, argued. In 1991, the Commissioner's office finally removed the asterisk and officially recognized Maris as the single-season home run champion – a recognition that his family and supporters had sought for thirty years. The 1960 Topps card predates all of that – it is a card from the year when Roger Maris was simply the best hitter in the American League, the MVP of the most dominant team in baseball, one of the most feared right fielders the game had produced. A 65-year-old card that has survived to carry a PSA 4 grade is a genuine artifact of that era. ⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Roger Maris. Right Field. New York Yankees. 1960 and 1961 American League MVP. 61 Home Runs in 1961. 1960 Topps #377. PSA 4 VG-EX. Collectible Trading Cards. Hall of Fame Sports. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Vintage 1960 Topps Roger Maris #377 Baseball Card PSA 4 VG-EX. Hall of Fame Sports. 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