1958 Topps #100B Early Wynn
Yellow-team (YT) lettering variation - the team/city name is printed in yellow instead of white. The white version is the common counterpart; yellow variants run roughly 2-2.5x scarcer.
Uncorrected error (per Beckett): back says 17 years in the majors. Yellow-letter variation tracked by Beckett as YT. Yellow team/city-name variation; common counterpart is white lettering. It was never corrected, so there is only one version of the card.
Yellow Team lettering variation: the team/city 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 Early Wynn
Card #100 sits in the second series of 1958 Topps and shows Early Wynn with the Chicago White Sox. Cleveland dealt him there on December 4, 1957, in the trade that sent Minnie Minoso back to the Indians, after a 14-17, 4.31 ERA season in which he still led the league in strikeouts. This version prints the team name in yellow rather than the common white, and its back still credits him with 17 years in the majors.
Early Wynn pitched 23 major-league seasons between 1939 and 1963 for the Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox, finishing 300-244 with a 3.54 ERA and 2,334 strikeouts. Washington sent him to Cleveland with Mickey Vernon after the 1948 season for Joe Haynes, Ed Klieman and Eddie Robinson, and there pitching coach Mel Harder added a curveball, slider and knuckleball to a fastball that had been almost his whole arsenal. Wynn led the American League with a 3.20 ERA in 1950, won 20 or more games four times in Cleveland alongside Bob Feller, Bob Lemon and Mike Garcia, and started Game 2 of the World Series for the 1954 club that set an American League record with 111 wins. Traded to the White Sox after the 1957 season, he won the 1959 Cy Young Award at 39 with a league-best 22 victories and pitched Chicago to its first pennant since 1919, opening that World Series with seven scoreless innings in an 11-0 rout of the Dodgers. Released after 1962 sitting on 299 wins, he signed with Cleveland in June 1963 and at 43 became the 14th pitcher to reach 300. A nine-time All-Star and one of the most intimidating men in the game, Wynn entered the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball Almanac · BaseballCardPedia
Variations & how to tell them apart
Yellow Team (YT) #100
Fourteen Series 1/early-2 cards exist with the team/city name printed in yellow instead of white. The white version is the common counterpart; yellow variants run roughly 2-2.5x scarcer.
- #100 — base card: the lettering is printed in WHITE — the base, more common version. — see the card page
- #100B — Yellow Team: the team/city 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 | 342 | 1 | 4 | 66 | 80 | 87 | 52 | 52 | 0 |
| SGC | 43 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 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 Early Wynn in this set: #100
More Chicago White Sox cards:
- #11 Jim Rivera
- #11B Jim Rivera (Yellow Team)
- #26 Ron H. Jackson
- #50 Billy Pierce
- #50B Billy Pierce (Yellow Team)
- #56 Bill Fischer
- #85 Luis Aparicio
- #85B Luis Aparicio (Yellow Team)
- #100 Early Wynn
- #108 Jim Landis
- #108B Jim Landis (Yellow Team)
- #129 Jim Derrington
- #138 Earl Torgeson
- #153 Les Moss
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1958 Topps Early Wynn card?
It is card #100 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 Early Wynn, Chicago White Sox, and this is the Yellow Team lettering variation.
What is the 1958 Topps Early Wynn yellow variation?
On this version of #100 the team/city 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.
What is the error on the 1958 Topps
Per Beckett it is one of the set's 11 uncorrected errors (UER): back says 17 years in the majors. Yellow-letter variation tracked by Beckett as YT. Yellow team/city-name variation; common counterpart is white lettering. It was never corrected, so there is only one version and no error premium.
How many graded copies of the 1958 Topps Early Wynn #100 are there?
PSA has graded 342 copies and SGC 43 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.
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.