1962 Topps #110 Bill Skowron
Uncorrected error: The back prints the wrong birth year. Skowron was born December 18, 1930.
About Bill Skowron
The back looks at 1961, when Skowron batted .267 with 28 home runs and 89 runs batted in, then added a homer and five runs batted in as New York put Cincinnati away in five World Series games. Card #110 is a series-2 issue that collectors chase in two states: 110a with no green tint, and 110b, the color-shifted green-tint printing. Read the back closely and the birth year is wrong; Skowron was born December 18, 1930.
William Joseph Skowron, a Chicago kid of Polish descent, played fourteen major league seasons from 1954 through 1967 and spent nine of them at first base for the New York Yankees. The nickname arrived early: a crew cut from his grandfather left him looking, to his father's semi-pro teammates, like Benito Mussolini, and "Mussolini" was soon shortened to "Moose." He went to Purdue on a football scholarship, signed with the Yankees in 1950 for a $22,000 bonus, and was named The Sporting News Minor League Player of the Year in 1952. Casey Stengel platooned him at first base before he took the job outright in 1958. Skowron reached eight All-Star Games across six seasons (1957 through 1961, then 1965) and won four titles in New York, his three-run homer off Lew Burdette breaking open Game Seven of the 1958 World Series. In 1961 he, Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, the Three M's, combined for a record 143 home runs. Traded to Los Angeles after 1962, he batted .385 as the Dodgers swept his old club for a fifth ring. He finished at .282 with 211 home runs and 888 runs batted in, entered the National Polish-American Hall of Fame in 1980, and worked for the White Sox as a community affairs representative from 1999 until his death in 2012.
Sources: SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Print variations
Two states of #110 are tracked individually: 110a - No Green Tint and 110b - Green Tint. The difference is on the front of the card (green tint).
States catalogued by the PSA master set registry; each is tracked here individually.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 110a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 363 | 0 | 12 | 78 | 137 | 86 | 25 | 25 | 0 |
| SGC | 37 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 |
| 110b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 101 | 0 | 11 | 20 | 28 | 24 | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 13 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-09-24. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8), and PSA's qualified grades are counted separately from the straight-grade rows shown here. Where a grader registers a variation separately its population is listed under that variation. Slabs of the three cards printed #139 are joined by description, never by number alone. PSA registers the green tints as a separate set; a tint's population is listed under that state of the card it belongs to.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #110 card?
It is card #110 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bill Skowron of the New York Yankees.
Does 1962 Topps #110 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 110a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 110b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #110 slot; the master set counts each state.
Does 1962 Topps #110 have an error?
The back prints the wrong birth year. Skowron was born December 18, 1930. It was never corrected, so there is no variation to chase - every copy of #110 reads the same way.
How many cards are in the 1962 Topps Baseball set?
600 cards, tracked as 708 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 598 with no gaps, but three different cards were printed #139 - two Hal Reniff poses, catalogued 139a and 139b, and the Babe Hits 60 Babe Ruth Special, 139c - so 598 numbers make 600 cards; 93 cards carry catalogued print variations, the series-2 green tints among them, that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Baseball Almanac, Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, The Topps Archives, Baseball-Reference, the SABR BioProject and the National Baseball Hall of Fame, PSA & SGC population reports. Card data compiled and maintained by T206Cards.com. Page last updated 2026-10-03.