1968 Topps #124 Nate Oliver
Also issued in Milton Bradley's 1968 Win-A-Card board game; those copies look the same on the front but have a brighter yellow back than the goldenrod standard issue.
About Nate Oliver
Topps #124 is a second-series card, a low number. It still lists Oliver with Los Angeles although the Dodgers had traded him and Ron Hunt to the San Francisco Giants for catcher Tom Haller and a minor leaguer on February 13, 1968. The back closed his Dodgers file with 1967: an ankle fractured in March, a late-May recall when Hunt was hurt, nine hits in his first 17 at-bats and a .237 finish over 77 games split between second base and shortstop. This number is also one of 77 Topps cards packed into Milton Bradley's Win-A-Card board game, and those copies carry a brighter yellow back than the goldenrod standard issue.
Nathaniel Oliver (December 13, 1940 - April 5, 2025) was a right-handed infielder from St. Petersburg, Florida who spent parts of seven major league seasons in the 1960s, mostly with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers signed him out of Gibbs High School on June 10, 1959; he hit .329 at Great Falls in 1960, reached Triple-A Spokane in 1961 and moved to second base there in 1962, a sensible switch with Maury Wills locked in at shortstop. Oliver reached the majors in 1963 and stayed with the club through 1967, shuttling between Los Angeles and Spokane most years. He went to the San Francisco Giants in February 1968, to the New York Yankees that December and to the Chicago Cubs the following April, then retired after two more minor league seasons in 1971. He hit .226 with 2 home runs and 45 RBI in 410 games, 291 of them at second base. Oliver worked for Bank of America and the Bay Area Rapid Transit system before returning to the game in 1988, managing and coaching in the minors for the Angels and Cubs into the 2000s. The son of Negro leagues player Jim Oliver Sr., he was also a singer, asked to perform the national anthem at a 1990 Dodgers old-timers game after Ella Fitzgerald cancelled.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 297 | 7 | 70 | 148 | 37 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| SGC | 19 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 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. 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
Team card: #168 Los Angeles Dodgers
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- #9 National League 1967 Pitching Leaders
- #15 Ron Hunt
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- #65 John Roseboro
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- #103 Don Sutton
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- #208 Willie Davis
- #228 Dodgers 1968 Rookie Stars
- #249 Bill Singer
- #266 Paul Popovich
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #124 card?
It is card #124 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Nate Oliver of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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.