1962 Topps #269 Bob Oldis
About Bob Oldis
The 1962 set moves Oldis to Philadelphia on card #269, a third-series issue. It follows a season that gave him almost nothing to report: four games and an 0-for-5 with Pittsburgh in 1961, with most of the year spent at Triple-A Columbus of the International League, where he hit .224 with two home runs and 21 RBI for a Jets club that took the regular-season championship by four games. The Pirates sold his contract to the Phillies on October 13, 1961, putting him under manager Gene Mauch, whom Oldis later called the brightest baseball mind he ever encountered.
Robert Carl Oldis was born January 5, 1928, in Preston, Iowa. His father, the town postmaster, sent him to a five-week instructional camp in Cocoa, Florida, in January 1949, and Washington signed him out of it after three weeks, with no bonus. A right-handed catcher, he reached the Senators in 1953 and spent parts of three seasons in Washington working behind their regular receivers. Pittsburgh drafted him out of the Yankees organization in the November 1959 Rule 5 draft for $25,000, and he earned a World Series ring with the 1960 Pirates before the club sold him to the Philadelphia Phillies after the 1961 season. He played through 1963 and finished at .237 with 56 hits and 22 RBI in 135 games across seven big-league seasons. Oldis stayed in the game for decades, coaching for the Phillies, Twins and Expos, managing in the minors and scouting for the Phillies, Expos and Marlins; fellow scouts voted him major-league scout of the year in 2002. He died September 21, 2025, in Gilbert, Arizona, at 97.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 273 | 2 | 14 | 149 | 83 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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. 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 #269 card?
It is card #269 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bob Oldis of the Philadelphia Phillies.
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.