1968 Topps #379 Gary Peters
One of the twenty Sporting News All-Star cards (#361-380); #379 falls in the fifth series, which carried the last ten of them.
About this card
Cards #361-380 are the twenty Sporting News All-Stars - horizontal cards whose backs form a puzzle. The run straddles the series-4/5 boundary, ten cards on each side.
About Gary Peters
Three cards here, all built on Peters' 1967: 16-11 with a 2.28 ERA and a career-high 215 strikeouts for a club that stayed in a four-team pennant race into the final week. Card #8, from the first series, is the AL ERA leaders card, with Peters second behind teammate Joe Horlen and ahead of Sonny Siebert of Cleveland. Card #210 is a third-series issue, and #379 is his Sporting News All-Star card from the fifth series. Collectors should know that #8 also turns up as a Milton Bradley Win-A-Card game card, printed from the same 1968 Topps design with a more vivid yellow back.
Gary Peters was a left-handed pitcher who spent parts of eleven seasons with the Chicago White Sox, from a September debut in 1959 through 1969, and then pitched three years for the Boston Red Sox. Born in Grove City, Pennsylvania in 1937, he came out of a high school that did not field a baseball team and spent 1956 through 1962 in the White Sox farm system, unable to hold a big-league job through four brief call-ups. An emergency start in May 1963 changed everything: he went 19-8 with a league-leading 2.33 ERA and won the American League Rookie of the Year award. He tied for the league lead with 20 wins in 1964, led the AL in ERA again at 1.98 in 1966, and was an All-Star in 1964 and 1967. He was also a real hitting threat, batting .222 lifetime with 19 home runs, four of them as a pinch-hitter. A back injury in 1968 and an arm injury the following spring ended his best years. He finished 124-103 with a 3.25 ERA and 1,420 strikeouts, was named to the White Sox All-Century Team in 2000, and died in Sarasota, Florida in 2023.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · Cardboard Connection
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 522 | 33 | 151 | 227 | 67 | 24 | 14 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 22 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 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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Related cards
More Gary Peters in this set: #8 League Leaders, #210
Team card: #424 Chicago White Sox
More Chicago White Sox cards:
- #8 American League 1967 ERA Leaders
- #14 Jerry McNertney
- #33 Pete Ward
- #51 Bob Locker
- #72 Tommy John
- #99 Rocky Colavito
- #125 Joe Horlen
- #142 White Sox 1968 Rookie Stars
- #172 Walt Williams
- #210 Gary Peters
- #229 Fred Klages
- #259 Ken Boyer
- #265 Tommy Davis
- #287 White Sox 1968 Rookie Stars
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #379 card?
It is card #379 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Gary Peters of the Chicago White Sox. Cards #361-380 are the twenty Sporting News All-Stars - horizontal cards whose backs form a puzzle. The run straddles the series-4/5 boundary, ten cards on each side.
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.