1968 Topps #109 Bert Campaneris
About Bert Campaneris
1968 Topps #109 comes from the first series and shows Campaneris as an Oakland Athletic. He answered the move to California with the best year of his twenties: a .276 average, league-leading totals of 177 hits and 642 at-bats, and a career-high 62 stolen bases for a fourth straight title. A 15-game hitting streak from August 4 to 18 included a five-hit afternoon on the 9th, and on August 29 he again tripled three times against Cleveland, one year to the day after the first time. He played 159 games, the most of any season in his career.
Dagoberto Campaneris was born in Pueblo Nuevo, Cuba, on March 9, 1942, and drew major league attention in 1961 while playing for Cuba's national team. Kansas City scout Felix Delgado signed him to a contract carrying a $1,000 bonus payable only if he stayed with the organization for 60 days. He reached the Athletics on July 23, 1964, hitting a home run off Jim Kaat on the first pitch thrown to him and another in the seventh inning, joining the short list of players with two home runs in a debut game. Listed at 5-foot-10 and 160 pounds, he built his game on speed and range, led the American League in stolen bases six times, and finished with 649 steals. He was a six-time All-Star and the leadoff man for Oakland's three straight World Series winners from 1972 through 1974. Nineteen seasons ended with stops in Texas, California and New York, and he retired after 1983 with 2,249 hits, 79 home runs and a .259 average. He still holds Athletics franchise records at shortstop, and the club inducted him into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019. He is not a National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 403 | 39 | 123 | 153 | 34 | 22 | 17 | 15 | 0 |
| SGC | 26 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 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. Slabs of the yellow team-letter #49 and #66 are 1968 Milton Bradley game cards and are not counted here.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #109 card?
It is card #109 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bert Campaneris of the Oakland Athletics.
How many cards are in the 1968 Topps Baseball set?
598 cards, tracked as 606 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 598 without a gap and no printed number carries two different cards; eight cards - six of the seven checklists, #10 AL Pitching Leaders and #400 Mike McCormick - carry a catalogued print variation that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, Baseball Almanac, Beckett, 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 2026-10-13.