1968 Topps #507 Wade Blasingame
About Wade Blasingame
Card #507, from the sixth series of 1968 Topps, shows Blasingame with the Houston Astros. He lost a rotation spot in spring training and pitched only 36 innings all year, the fewest since his 1963 callup, after a line drive struck him in the groin on July 13 and required surgery. His lone win of the season came in a marathon: a 24-inning, 1-0 victory over the Mets on April 15 that lasted just over six hours.
Wade Blasingame was a hard-throwing left-hander out of Fresno, California, who signed with the Milwaukee Braves in 1961 for a $125,000 bonus after a perfect 26-0 prep career at Theodore Roosevelt High School. He debuted with the Braves in September 1963 and broke through in 1965, going 16-10 with 224.2 innings and league-best fielding among NL pitchers as the club played its final Milwaukee season. Finger and shoulder trouble followed in 1966, and a June 1967 trade sent him to the Houston Astros, where he pitched through the 1971 season as a starter and reliever. He closed his career with the New York Yankees in 1972. Over ten major league seasons he went 46-51 with a 4.52 ERA in 222 games. He later returned to Fresno, the city where he had starred as a schoolboy pitcher, and in 1985 was inducted into the Fresno County Athletic Hall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 320 | 3 | 103 | 157 | 40 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 16 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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 #507 card?
It is card #507 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Wade Blasingame of the Houston Astros.
Is 1968 Topps #507 a scarce card?
It is from the sixth print series (cards 458-533). Together with series 7 it forms the #458-598 block that hobby sources price at a modest premium; several catalogs call these cards high numbers outright.
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.