1968 Topps #522 Wayne Causey
About Wayne Causey
Number 522 falls in the sixth series of 1968. Causey is a White Sox regular here, coming off his first full season in Chicago, and the numbers were the problem rather than the playing time: 124 games in 1967, 96 of them at second base with 75 starts, but only a .226 average, 66 hits, one home run and 28 runs batted in. He was 30 years old and the Sox still hoped the bat would come back. It was the lowest average he had posted since his Baltimore apprenticeship.
James Wayne Causey, born December 26, 1936, in Ruston, Louisiana, was a sought-after third baseman out of Neville High School when Baltimore outbid Detroit and Philadelphia and signed him on June 4, 1955, for a $32,000 bonus. Any bonus above $4,000 made a player a bonus baby who had to be kept on the big league roster for two seasons, and Causey hit just .187 in 135 games as an Oriole. After nearly four years in the minors, a January 24, 1961 trade sent him, Bob Boyd, Al Pilarcik, Jim Archer and Clint Courtney to the Kansas City Athletics for Russ Snyder and Whitey Herzog. Kansas City made him a regular across shortstop, second and third, where he batted .270 with 640 hits in 689 games and drew American League MVP votes in 1963 and 1964. A separated shoulder and the arrival of Bert Campaneris ended that run, and he finished in 1968 with Chicago, California and Atlanta. He took off-season classes from 1956 on and earned an accounting degree from Northeast Louisiana State College in 1965.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 357 | 36 | 134 | 133 | 38 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| SGC | 16 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #522 card?
It is card #522 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Wayne Causey of the Chicago White Sox.
Is 1968 Topps #522 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.