1968 Topps #188 Cap Peterson
About Cap Peterson
Topps #188 is a second-series card. It shows Peterson still with the Senators, for whom he played 94 games that season, most of them in the outfield. His playing time and production had settled below his 1967 career year - the last full season he spent in Washington before moving on to Cleveland.
Charles Andrew "Cap" Peterson, nicknamed from the initials of his own name, was an outfielder from Tacoma, Washington, who broke in with the San Francisco Giants in September 1962 after a huge Double-A season at El Paso, where he hit .335 with 29 home runs. He split time in left and right field for the Giants through 1966 but never won a full-time job, and in December of that year he was part of the multi-player trade that sent Mike McCormick to San Francisco and brought Peterson to the Washington Senators. He posted his career high in games played with the 1967 Senators, then closed out his playing days with the Cleveland Indians in 1969, reunited there with former Giants manager Alvin Dark as a reserve outfielder and pinch-hitter. Over eight big-league seasons he batted .230 with 269 hits in 536 games. After baseball he ran his family's construction business back home in Tacoma, where he died in 1980 at age 37 following a long illness.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 214 | 5 | 45 | 102 | 37 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 8 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 #188 card?
It is card #188 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Cap Peterson of the Washington Senators.
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 2026-10-12.