1968 Topps #331 Dan Osinski
About Dan Osinski
Card #331 sits in series 4 and reports the best year of Osinski's career, on Boston's "Impossible Dream" pennant winner: a 3-1 record, two saves and a career-low 2.54 ERA in 34 games. He pitched twice in the World Series against St. Louis, giving up two hits and a run in the eighth inning of Game 3, then relieving Dave Morehead with the bases loaded in Game 7 and retiring Orlando Cepeda on a foul out - the last out Boston recorded before the Cardinals took the title.
Dan Osinski (November 17, 1933 - September 13, 2013) was a right-handed relief pitcher from Chicago who signed with the Cleveland Indians in 1951, at age 17, for $4,000 - the most he could take without being classed a "bonus baby" and stuck on the big-league roster for a year instead of developing in the minors. He spent a decade down there, two of those years lost to the Army, and shared a room with Roger Maris at Keokuk, Reading and Tulsa before Kansas City took him out of the Chicago White Sox organization in the minor-league draft of November 27, 1961. Osinski debuted in the majors on April 11, 1962, at age 28, and was sold to the Los Angeles Angels that July for $35,000 and a player to be named later. A Pacific Coast League sportswriter in Portland had already tagged him "The Silencer," and the name stuck. He pitched for the Athletics, Angels, Milwaukee Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros, finishing 29-28 with a 3.34 ERA, 400 strikeouts and 18 saves in 324 games - an original "fireman" from the years when the relief specialist was becoming a fashionable idea. His last major-league outing came for Houston on April 16, 1970; the final batter he faced, Willie Mays, grounded out.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 284 | 8 | 79 | 134 | 41 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 17 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 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 #331 card?
It is card #331 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dan Osinski of the Boston Red Sox.
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.