1962 Topps #228 Dale Long
The card back credits Long with 135 RBIs for 1953; the real total was 116 - still enough to lead the Pacific Coast League and win him its MVP award.
Uncorrected error: The back credits him with 135 RBIs in 1953 - it was 116
About Dale Long
Card #228 lands in the 1962 set's third series. Its back overstates Long's 1953 Pacific Coast League year at 135 RBIs; he actually drove in 116 for the Hollywood Stars, still enough to lead the league and take PCL MVP honors. Washington opened 1962 with him at first, but he hit .241 with four homers and 24 RBIs in 67 games, and on July 11 the Senators traded the 36-year-old to the Yankees for outfielder Don Lock.
Richard Dale Long was born February 6, 1926, in Springfield, Missouri, and grew up in Wisconsin and western Massachusetts before a wartime U.S. Navy hitch that a noncombat injury cut short in May 1944. A left-handed first baseman listed at 6-foot-4, Long was the property of six big-league clubs and, after a 1951 cup of coffee with the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Browns, waited three and a half more years for a steady job. He got it in Pittsburgh in 1955. The following May he homered in eight consecutive games, a major-league record later matched but never broken, and that summer he started the All-Star Game at first base for the National League. Long later played for the Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, New York Yankees and Washington Senators, and in 1958 he became the majors' first left-handed-throwing catcher since 1902. He won a World Series ring with the 1962 Yankees and finished ten big-league seasons at .267 with 132 home runs and 467 RBIs. After his playing career ended in 1964 he umpired in the minors, sold sporting goods and pharmaceuticals, ran a tavern, and supervised nuclear-submarine work before returning to baseball in the mid-1980s as a field representative for the National Association. He died of cancer on January 27, 1991, in Palm Coast, Florida.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 246 | 0 | 11 | 126 | 81 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 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 #228 card?
It is card #228 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dale Long of the Washington Senators.
Does 1962 Topps #228 have an error?
The back credits him with 135 RBIs in 1953 - it was 116. It was never corrected, so there is no variation to chase - every copy of #228 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.