1958 Topps #23B Bill Tuttle
Yellow-name (YN) lettering variation - the player name is printed in yellow instead of white. The white version is the common counterpart; yellow variants run roughly 2-2.5x scarcer.
Yellow Name lettering variation: the player name is printed in yellow instead of white. PSA population data puts yellow copies at roughly 2-2.5x scarcer than their white counterparts.
About Bill Tuttle
Card #23 in the first series of 1958 Topps pictures Bill Tuttle with the Kansas City Athletics, and it exists in two lettering versions: the common white name and a Yellow Name variation. The outfielder had spent 1957 with Detroit, hitting .251 with five home runs and 47 RBI in 133 games, before a November 1957 thirteen-player trade sent him to Kansas City, where he became the primary center fielder.
Bill Tuttle was a durable, defense-minded outfielder who played 11 major league seasons for the Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics and Minnesota Twins, debuting in September 1952, spending 1953 back in the minors at Buffalo, and finishing in May 1963. A right-handed hitter and thrower out of Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, he was rated one of the American League's most reliable center fielders: he led AL outfielders in putouts in 1955 and 1960 and in assists in 1959 and 1960, and led AL center fielders in assists in 1955, 1956 and 1958. Bradley put him in its athletics hall of fame in January 1954. Tuttle was a contact hitter rather than a power threat, batting .259 with 1,105 hits, 67 home runs and 443 RBIs in 1,270 games; his best years were 1955, when he set career highs of 102 runs, 14 homers and 78 RBIs, and 1959, when he hit .300. Diagnosed with oral cancer in 1993, decades after a Detroit teammate handed him his first chew in 1955, he spent his last years touring clubhouses and schools with Joe Garagiola to warn players and children against spit tobacco, and died in 1998 at 69.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball Almanac · BaseballCardPedia
Variations & how to tell them apart
Yellow Name (YN) #23
Nineteen Series 1/early-2 cards exist with the player name printed in yellow instead of white, including stars Aaron (#30), Kaline (#70) and McDougald (#20).
- #23 — base card: the lettering is printed in WHITE — the base, more common version. — see the card page
- #23B — Yellow Name: the player name is printed in YELLOW — the scarcer version, roughly 2-2.5x tougher than white per PSA populations. (this page)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 143 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 18 | 37 | 42 | 39 | 0 |
| SGC | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-07-09. Counts cover this variation only; the base version is tracked separately. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8). PSA counts are straight-graded (the +/Q qualifier rows are excluded).
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Related cards
More Bill Tuttle in this set: #23
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- #23 Bill Tuttle
- #39 Bob Martyn
- #62 Joe DeMaestri
- #69 Wally Burnette
- #98 Billy Hunter
- #98B Billy Hunter (Yellow Name)
- #119 Harry Chiti
- #139 George Brunet
- #155 Hector Lopez
- #169 Ralph Terry
- #174 Kansas City Athletics Team
- #192 Milt Graff
- #202 Woodie Held
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1958 Topps Bill Tuttle card?
It is card #23 of the 1958 Topps Baseball set - Topps' sixth flagship issue: 494 cards numbered 1-495 (#145 was never issued), with die-cut player photos on solid-color backgrounds and the first team logos on Topps fronts. It pictures Bill Tuttle, Kansas City Athletics, and this is the Yellow Name lettering variation.
What is the 1958 Topps Bill Tuttle yellow variation?
On this version of #23 the player name is printed in yellow instead of white - one of the set's 33 recognized lettering variations. Yellow copies run roughly 2-2.5x scarcer than the white version per PSA population data.
How many graded copies of the 1958 Topps Bill Tuttle #23 are there?
PSA has graded 143 copies and SGC 18 as of the 2026-07-09 snapshot (this variation only). Population is a scarcity guide, not a price - high-grade 1958s are notoriously tough because of the set's chronic centering and print-quality issues.
How many cards are in the 1958 Topps set?
494 issued cards, numbered 1-495 - #145 (Ed Bouchee) was pulled before release and never issued, leaving a permanent gap. The PSA master census counts 534 items: the 494 base cards plus 33 yellow-letter variations, 4 numerical checklist-back team cards, the 'Herrer' #433 error, and 2 unnumbered ad cards.
Sources: PSA CardFacts, Beckett, BaseballCardPedia, Baseball-Reference, PSA & SGC population reports, and hobby press-sheet research (Topps Archives, 2026). Card data compiled and maintained by T206Cards.com. Page last updated 2026-09-30.