1962 Topps #528 Turk Lown
About Turk Lown
Card #528 sits in the seventh series of the 1962 set, a high number from the last run Topps issued that year and much harder to find than the low-series cards. This was Lown's eleventh and final big league season. He turned 38 that May and was still useful, working 42 games out of the Chicago White Sox bullpen and going 4-2 with six saves and a 3.04 ERA. It was not enough to keep him. Chicago released him after the season and handed the bullpen to Hoyt Wilhelm, and when a spring trial with Cincinnati followed in 1963, Lown chose instead to go home to Pueblo and retire.
Omar Joseph "Turk" Lown was a right-handed pitcher from Brooklyn, New York, who spent parts of 11 major league seasons with the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox between 1951 and 1962. He was called Turk as a child for his fondness for eating turkey. The Brooklyn Dodgers signed him in 1942, but World War II interrupted his climb: he served three years as an Army infantryman, was wounded by shrapnel in the Battle of the Bulge and received the Purple Heart. The Cubs drafted him out of the Dodgers system in November 1950, and after failing as a starter he was moved to the bullpen for good in 1953. Chicago traded him to Cincinnati in May 1958 and the Reds sold him to the White Sox that June, pairing him with Gerry Staley in Al Lopez's bullpen. In 1959 Lown went 9-2 with a league-leading 15 saves and a 2.89 ERA as the pair drove Chicago to its first pennant in 40 years, and he allowed no runs in three appearances of a World Series the White Sox lost to the Dodgers in six games. He finished 55-61 with 73 saves and a 4.12 ERA in 504 games, then carried mail in Pueblo, Colorado, for 23 years before his death in 2016.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 218 | 0 | 5 | 109 | 65 | 23 | 9 | 7 | 0 |
| SGC | 31 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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 #528 card?
It is card #528 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Turk Lown of the Chicago White Sox.
Why is #528 harder to find?
It is a high number card (cards 523-598) from the seventh print series, distributed last and in the smallest quantity - the toughest cards in the set and home to all 42 short prints and the Rookie Parade.
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.