1962 Topps #178 Camilo Carreon
About Camilo Carreon
The 1962 season handed Carreon the everyday job: he appeared in 106 games, made 85 starts at catcher, and hit .256 with a career-high 19 doubles and 37 RBIs while Lollar slid into the reserve role. His White Sox card in the 1962 Topps set, number 178, is a second-series card. Collectors track it in two states, one with the green tint found on some copies and one without.
Camilo Garcia Carreon was born August 6, 1937, in Colton, California, the youngest of five children; his father had emigrated from Durango, Mexico, and spent thirty years at a Colton cement plant. A standout catcher at Colton Union High School, he signed with the Chicago White Sox in 1956 and hit over .300 at three minor league stops, including .311 for Triple-A Indianapolis in 1959, which earned him the American Association's outstanding rookie award. He debuted in the majors on the closing day of Chicago's pennant-winning 1959 season and stuck for good in 1961. Over eight seasons he batted .264 with 260 hits, 11 home runs and 114 RBIs, and he caught 320 games with only 13 errors for a .993 fielding mark. Torn tendons in his right arm in 1964 reduced the rest of his career to short stays with Cleveland and Baltimore, and he retired after the 1967 season to raise his family in Tucson, Arizona, where he later played a season for the Tucson Toros, coached them through 1972, and stayed in Little League and amateur men's baseball until his death in 1987 at age 50. Colton elected him to its hall of fame in 2006, the first Hispanic honoree.
Sources: SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Print variations
Two states of #178 are tracked individually: 178a - No Green Tint and 178b - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 178a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 239 | 0 | 2 | 79 | 106 | 39 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 178b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 93 | 0 | 5 | 29 | 26 | 17 | 10 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 8 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 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. 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 #178 card?
It is card #178 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Camilo Carreon of the Chicago White Sox.
Does 1962 Topps #178 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 178a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 178b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #178 slot; the master set counts each state.
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.