1962 Topps #28 Minnie Minoso
The back prints his birth year as 1923; the accepted date is November 29, 1925.
Uncorrected error: The back gives his birth year as 1923 - Minoso was born in 1925
About Minnie Minoso
Card #28 is his first Topps card in a Cardinals uniform. Chicago traded him to St. Louis for Joe Cunningham on November 27, 1961, his first move out of the American League. The back sums up 1961: .280 with 14 home runs and 82 RBIs in 152 games for the White Sox. It also shaves two years off him, printing 1923 as his birth year; the record books now carry November 29, 1925, and his true age was argued over all his life.
Saturnino Orestes Armas Arrieta Minoso, known as Minnie and the Cuban Comet, came out of Perico, Cuba, played third base for the New York Cubans of the Negro National League, and signed with Cleveland in 1948. A three-team trade sent him to the Chicago White Sox on April 30, 1951; the next day he became the first Black player in franchise history, homering in his first Comiskey Park at-bat. He hit .326 that season, second in the AL, and was runner-up for Rookie of the Year. Minoso was an All-Star in seven seasons and a three-time Gold Glove left fielder, led the league in steals and triples three times each and in hits, doubles and total bases once apiece, the engine of the Go-Go White Sox. Crowding the plate cost him: he led the AL in times hit by pitch a record ten times and held the career mark from 1959 to 1985. After a second Cleveland stint and stops in St. Louis and Washington, he finished in Chicago in 1964, then made celebrated cameos in 1976 and 1980 that left him the second man to play in five decades. He died in March 2015; the Golden Days Era Committee voted him into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in December 2021, and he was inducted in 2022.
Sources: SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 487 | 0 | 5 | 72 | 142 | 116 | 66 | 84 | 2 |
| SGC | 121 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 24 | 42 | 28 | 4 |
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 #28 card?
It is card #28 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Minnie Minoso of the St. Louis Cardinals.
Does 1962 Topps #28 have an error?
The back gives his birth year as 1923 - Minoso was born in 1925. It was never corrected, so there is no variation to chase - every copy of #28 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.