The 1957 Topps #94 is Raymond Berry's rookie card, issued in the season he first led the NFL in receiving yards. PSA has graded 1,125 copies. None is a PSA 10, three are PSA 9s, and the most common grade is a PSA 5.

The Player

Berry was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Feb. 27, 1933. Nothing in his early record pointed to the Hall of Fame. He did not start on his high school team until his senior year, though his father was the coach, and at Southern Methodist he caught 33 passes in three seasons. The Baltimore Colts took him as a future choice in the 20th round of the 1954 draft, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame says plainly that why they did "is a mystery."

He made himself into a receiver through practice. By his own count he had 88 moves to get open, and he caught passes from anyone willing to throw them. In 1956 Johnny Unitas became the Colts' quarterback, and the two became one of the great pass-catch pairings in the league's history.

In 1957, the year of this card, Berry caught 47 passes for 800 yards and led the NFL in receiving yards for the first time. A year later came the 1958 NFL Championship Game, the 23-17 overtime win over the New York Giants later called "The Greatest Game Ever Played." Berry caught 12 passes for 178 yards and a touchdown, including three straight catches covering 62 yards on the drive to the tying field goal. The Hall notes that 12 catches stood as a championship-game record until Super Bowl XLVIII.

He led the league in receptions from 1958 through 1960 and retired after the 1967 season with 631 catches, 9,275 yards and 68 touchdowns, then the NFL's career highs in catches and yards. He made six Pro Bowls and entered the Hall of Fame in 1973, his first year of eligibility. He later coached the New England Patriots to Super Bowl XX. Berry died on May 25, 2026, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He was 93.

The Card

The 1957 Topps #94 is a horizontal card with two panels. On the left is a portrait of Berry against an orange background, above a green nameplate reading "Raymond Berry." On the right, a Colts receiver in a blue jersey stretches both arms up for the ball against a green field, over a caption reading "END - COLTS." TCDB's checklist marks the card both RC and SP, and PSA lists the player as "Raymond Berry (R) (HOF)."

The copy pictured is a PSA NM-MT 8, cert 06035267. Its label reads "1957 TOPPS / RAYMOND BERRY / #94."

PSA Population Report

PSA GradePopulation
PSA 100
PSA 93
PSA 857
Total Graded (All Grades)1,125

* Population data as of November 10, 2026. PSA population counts are dynamic and increase as more cards are submitted for grading.

Reading the Curve

The curve sits in the middle of the scale. PSA 5 is the largest grade at 270 copies, with PSA 6 close behind at 259 and PSA 4 at 228. PSA 7 adds 168. Those four grades together hold 925 of the 1,125, about 82 percent.

The top is thin. PSA 8 and 9 together come to 60 copies, a little over 5 percent of the total, and the ceiling is the three MINT 9s. No copy has reached PSA 10.

The 1,125 includes six slabs marked Authentic. PSA has also issued 39 half grades, four of them at 8.5, and 83 qualified grades. The largest qualified group sits at 8, with 23 copies. Counting everything, PSA has slabbed 1,247 copies of this card.