1962 Topps #125 Gene Woodling
About Gene Woodling
Woodling opened 1962 back in Washington and hit .280 in 44 games before the Senators sold his contract to the expansion New York Mets in June, shortly before his 40th birthday. That reunited him with Casey Stengel, the manager of his Yankees title teams, and he batted .274 in 81 games for a club that lost 120. The card shows him as a Senator, number 125 from the second series. Two collectible states exist because Topps had the second series reprinted by another printer when demand ran past the original order, and a magenta separation fault left those fronts with the famous green tint.
Gene Woodling was an Akron, Ohio, native who broke into the majors with Cleveland in 1943, lost 1944 and 1945 to Navy service in World War II, and bounced through Cleveland and Pittsburgh before a Minor League Player of the Year season with the San Francisco Seals put him back on the map; manager Lefty O'Doul rebuilt his stance there. As a left-handed-hitting outfielder for the Yankees from 1949 to 1954 he played on five straight World Series champions, batting .318 across those five Series with three home runs, and he led American League outfielders in fielding percentage in 1952 and 1953. He hit a career-best .321 for Cleveland in 1957, then earned his only All-Star selection and Orioles Most Valuable Player honors in 1959 at .300; Baltimore put him in its team Hall of Fame in 1992. Over 17 seasons he hit .284 with 147 home runs and 830 RBI, batting over .300 five times. He later coached first base for Baltimore under Hank Bauer from 1964 through 1967, including the 1966 championship, and scouted for the Yankees and Indians.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Print variations
Two states of #125 are tracked individually: 125a - No Green Tint and 125b - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 125a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 267 | 0 | 3 | 101 | 107 | 28 | 20 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 125b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 66 | 0 | 5 | 19 | 22 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 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 #125 card?
It is card #125 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Gene Woodling of the Washington Senators.
Does 1962 Topps #125 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 125a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 125b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #125 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.