1964 Topps #240 Bill White
About Bill White
White hit .303 with 21 home runs and 102 RBIs in 1964 and saved the best of it for the finish, lifting his average from .263 at the All-Star break to .303 by season's end. In the must-win final game against the Mets he singled and scored the go-ahead run, then added a two-run homer as St. Louis clinched the pennant. He placed third in MVP voting behind Ken Boyer and Johnny Callison, and though he managed only .111 in the World Series, two of those hits came in the Game Seven win over the Yankees. Series-1 #11 is the 1963 National League R.B.I. Leaders card, lining him up behind Hank Aaron and Ken Boyer; series-3 #240 is his own card.
Bill White was a left-handed-hitting, left-handed-throwing first baseman who played 13 major-league seasons for the Giants, Cardinals and Phillies, batting .286 with 202 home runs and 870 RBIs. His family joined the Black migration north to Warren, Ohio when he was three, and his grandmother raised him there while his mother worked. He chose Hiram College for its pre-med program, then signed with the Giants in 1953 after asking Leo Durocher for a $2,500 bonus so he could pay for school. He homered in his first big-league at-bat on May 7, 1956, lost 1957 to the Army, and after a March 1959 trade to St. Louis became one of the National League's best all-around players: seven straight Gold Gloves from 1960 through 1966, eight All-Star selections, career highs across the board in 1963, and a World Series ring with the 1964 Cardinals. He also spoke out, criticizing a 1961 St. Petersburg civic breakfast that invited only white players. He later called Yankees games for 18 seasons and served as National League president from 1989 to 1994, the first Black president of a major sports league. The Cardinals elected him to their team Hall of Fame in 2020, and in 2026 the National Baseball Hall of Fame gave him its Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 292 | 1 | 29 | 144 | 62 | 30 | 15 | 11 | 0 |
| SGC | 14 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-09-04. Half grades fold down for both graders (8.5→8); PSA qualified slabs (OC, ST, PD, MC and the like) are not counted.
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Related cards
More Bill White in this set: #11 League Leaders
Team card: #87 St. Louis Cardinals
More St. Louis Cardinals cards:
- #7 1963 National League Batting Leaders
- #11 1963 National League R.B.I. Leaders
- #24 Carl Sawatski
- #40 Dick Groat
- #59 Ernie Broglio
- #103 Curt Flood
- #119 Gary Kolb
- #147 Ray Sadecki
- #160 Ken Boyer
- #183 Ron Taylor
- #211 Jim Coker
- #262 Cardinals 1964 Rookie Stars
- #278 Bobby Shantz
- #295 Roger Craig
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1964 Topps #240 card?
It is card #240 of the 587-card 1964 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bill White of the St. Louis Cardinals.
How many cards are in the 1964 Topps Baseball set?
587 cards, tracked as 589 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 587 with no gaps, and no number carries two different cards; two cards - #4, the A.L. Pitching Leaders, and #517, the seventh-series checklist - carry a catalogued back variation that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, The Topps Archives, Baseball Almanac, 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 2026-10-11.