1958 Topps #210 Wally Moon
About Wally Moon
Wally Moon is card #210 in the third series of 1958 Topps, a St. Louis Cardinals issue. It reports his 1957, when he hit .295 with a career-high 24 home runs and 73 RBI and made the All-Star team. Sports Illustrated had put him on its April cover as The Hope of St. Louis, and the Cardinals finished second to the Milwaukee Braves that year.
Wallace Wade Moon was born April 3, 1930, in Bay, Arkansas, the son of a factory worker who later became the town's mayor. Named for football coach Wallace Wade, he was the first in his family to reach college, and he earned a master's degree in educational administration at Texas A&M while still in the minor leagues. Moon debuted for the St. Louis Cardinals on April 13, 1954, homering in his first big-league at-bat while fans chanted for Enos Slaughter, the longtime favorite traded away to make room for him. He batted .304 that season and was voted National League Rookie of the Year over Ernie Banks and Hank Aaron. A left-handed hitter who threw right-handed, Moon spent five seasons in St. Louis before a December 1958 trade sent him and pitcher Phil Paine to the Los Angeles Dodgers for outfielder Gino Cimoli. Advised by Stan Musial, he built an inside-out swing to lift fly balls over the screen in the Los Angeles Coliseum's short left field, and the results were dubbed Moon shots. He won World Series titles in 1959, 1963 and 1965, made two All-Star teams, and won a 1960 Gold Glove in left field. He retired after 1965 with a .289 average, 142 home runs and 661 RBIs, and died February 9, 2018.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball Almanac · BaseballCardPedia
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 306 | 0 | 5 | 81 | 118 | 65 | 20 | 17 | 0 |
| SGC | 23 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-07-09. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8). PSA counts are straight-graded (the +/Q qualifier rows are excluded).
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1958 Topps Wally Moon card?
It is card #210 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 Wally Moon, St. Louis Cardinals.
How many graded copies of the 1958 Topps Wally Moon #210 are there?
PSA has graded 306 copies and SGC 23 as of the 2026-07-09 snapshot. 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.