1962 Topps #168 Leo Posada
About Leo Posada
Kansas City opened 1962 with Posada in left field and he started eight of the club's first 10 games, but Hank Bauer, by then the manager, benched him in favor of Manny Jimenez and used him mostly as a pinch-hitter. He got into 29 games, hit .196 in 46 at-bats, and made his last big-league appearance on July 20, a pinch-hit groundout for Diego Segui; on August 3 the Athletics shipped him, Bill Kunkel, Dale Willis and cash to the Toronto Maple Leafs for pitcher Orlando Pena. Card 168 in the 1962 Topps set is a second-series card. Collectors chase it in two states: 168a without the green tint and 168b with it.
Leopoldo Jesus Posada Hernandez was born in Havana on April 1, 1934, and came to baseball by way of a bicycle. A national champion cyclist, he rode for Cuba at the 1951 Pan American Games and the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games, and he took pride in being the only Cuban who was both an international cycling star and a big leaguer; teammates back home called him the ciclista pelotero. The Milwaukee Braves signed him in 1954, Kansas City picked him up in the December 1956 minor-league draft, and seven minor-league summers later a .314, 18-homer, 122-RBI year at Shreveport in 1960 finally brought the call. He was 26 when he debuted that September, and he never played a full big-league season, batting .256 with 8 home runs and 58 RBIs across 155 games for the Athletics from 1960 through 1962. He kept playing in the minors through 1969, was named the Texas League's Most Valuable Player at Amarillo in 1965 on a league-leading 26 homers, 107 RBIs and 266 total bases, then spent decades as a manager and hitting instructor for Houston, a season in the Yankees chain and sixteen years with the Dodgers, plus winters in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. Inducted into the Cuban Hall of Fame in Exile in 2010, he ran a bicycle shop in Miami and died there in 2022.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Print variations
Two states of #168 are tracked individually: 168a - No Green Tint and 168b - 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 168a - No Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 228 | 0 | 2 | 90 | 105 | 24 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 14 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 168b - Green Tint | |||||||||
| PSA | 58 | 0 | 5 | 13 | 29 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 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 #168 card?
It is card #168 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Leo Posada of the Kansas City Athletics.
Does 1962 Topps #168 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked separately: 168a - No Green Tint (No green tint - the standard first printing) and 168b - Green Tint (Green tint - the color-shifted second printing of series 2). Owning any one of them fills the #168 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.