1969 Topps #622 Dan Osinski
About Dan Osinski
Boston released Osinski on April 3, 1968, and he heard about it from a sportswriter rather than the club. The White Sox signed him on April 29 and sent him to Hawaii of the Pacific Coast League, where he went 8-2 with a 2.39 ERA in 51 games and made the first-team PCL All-Star squad at midseason on the strength of a 5-0, 1.44 start. That work bought him a ticket back, and card #622, a series-7 high number, shows him in a Chicago uniform.
Dan Osinski (November 17, 1933 - September 13, 2013) was a right-handed relief pitcher from Chicago who signed with the Cleveland Indians in 1951, at age 17, for $4,000 - the most he could take without being classed a "bonus baby" and stuck on the big-league roster for a year instead of developing in the minors. He spent a decade down there, two of those years lost to the Army, and shared a room with Roger Maris at Keokuk, Reading and Tulsa before Kansas City took him out of the Chicago White Sox organization in the minor-league draft of November 27, 1961. Osinski debuted in the majors on April 11, 1962, at age 28, and was sold to the Los Angeles Angels that July for $35,000 and a player to be named later. A Pacific Coast League sportswriter in Portland had already tagged him "The Silencer," and the name stuck. He pitched for the Athletics, Angels, Milwaukee Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros, finishing 29-28 with a 3.34 ERA, 400 strikeouts and 18 saves in 324 games - an original "fireman" from the years when the relief specialist was becoming a fashionable idea. His last major-league outing came for Houston on April 16, 1970; the final batter he faced, Willie Mays, grounded out.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 335 | 9 | 81 | 172 | 47 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 0 |
| SGC | 14 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 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 #622 card?
It is card #622 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Dan Osinski of the Chicago White Sox.
Why is #622 harder to find?
It is a high number card from the seventh and last print series, #589-664 - the scarce end of the set.
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.