1969 Topps #588 Bill White
About Bill White
Card #588 falls in series 6 and shows White back with St. Louis, where the Phillies had traded him on April 3 in exchange for Jim Hutto and Jerry Buchek. He was 35 and used almost entirely off the bench: 49 games, 57 at-bats, a .211 average and just 15 appearances at first base. That was the end of the playing career. The Cardinals offered him a job managing in Triple-A and he turned it down, having already settled on the broadcast booth as his next line of work.
Bill White was a left-handed-hitting, left-handed-throwing first baseman who played 13 major-league seasons for the Giants, Cardinals and Phillies, batting .286 with 202 home runs and 870 RBIs. His family joined the Black migration north to Warren, Ohio when he was three, and his grandmother raised him there while his mother worked. He chose Hiram College for its pre-med program, then signed with the Giants in 1953 after asking Leo Durocher for a $2,500 bonus so he could pay for school. He homered in his first big-league at-bat on May 7, 1956, lost 1957 to the Army, and after a March 1959 trade to St. Louis became one of the National League's best all-around players: seven straight Gold Gloves from 1960 through 1966, eight All-Star selections, career highs across the board in 1963, and a World Series ring with the 1964 Cardinals. He also spoke out, criticizing a 1961 St. Petersburg civic breakfast that invited only white players. He later called Yankees games for 18 seasons and served as National League president from 1989 to 1994, the first Black president of a major sports league. The Cardinals elected him to their team Hall of Fame in 2020, and in 2026 the National Baseball Hall of Fame gave him its Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 458 | 9 | 135 | 228 | 45 | 22 | 11 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 24 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 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.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1969 Topps #588 card?
It is card #588 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bill White of the St. Louis Cardinals.
How many cards are in the 1969 Topps Baseball set?
664 cards, tracked as 696 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 664 with none skipped and no printed number shared by two cards; 32 cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately, 23 of them the yellow- and white-letter name pairs of #440-511.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, Baseball Almanac, 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.