1969 Topps #524 Expos Rookie Stars - Jose Laboy / Floyd Wicker
On this card: Jose Laboy, Floyd Wicker
About this card
This is one of the 52 Rookie Stars cards in the 1969 Topps set, each carrying two or three young players under a club or league title. A Rookie Stars card is a rookie card only for the players pictured who had no earlier Topps flagship card - the rookie-card answer on each card names them.
The story on this card
As a 29-year-old rookie, Laboy won the starting third base job for the expansion Montreal Expos and homered in the franchise's first-ever game. He hit safely in 15 of the team's first 16 games and finished the season batting .258 with 18 home runs, 83 RBI and a team-high 29 doubles across 157 games, tying for second in the National League Rookie of the Year vote. Card #524, part of print series 6, is a Rookie Stars subset issue shared with fellow Expos rookie Floyd Wicker and is a recognized rookie card for Laboy. Puerto Rican third baseman who spent a decade in the minors before winning the starting job for the expansion Montreal Expos in 1969, homering in the franchise's first game as a 29-year-old rookie.
Floyd Wicker's 1969 Topps card (#524) captures him with the expansion Montreal Expos, sharing the card with Jose Laboy as part of a multi-player Rookie Stars subset from the set's sixth print series. It stands as a recognized rookie card for Wicker. That inaugural Expos season was his longest major league stint: he appeared in 41 games, used almost exclusively as a pinch hitter, and collected 4 hits in 39 at-bats for a .103 average. Floyd Wicker was a left-handed-hitting outfielder from Burlington, North Carolina, who debuted with the Cardinals in 1968 and went on to play for the Expos, Brewers, and Giants before retiring in 1971.
Sources: Wikipedia (Coco Laboy) · Wikipedia (Floyd Wicker) · SABR BioProject
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 513 | 13 | 138 | 268 | 52 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 4 |
| SGC | 16 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 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 #524 card?
It is card #524 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jose Laboy and Floyd Wicker. This is one of the 52 Rookie Stars cards in the 1969 Topps set, each carrying two or three young players under a club or league title. A Rookie Stars card is a rookie card only for the players pictured who had no earlier Topps flagship card - the rookie-card answer on each card names them.
Is 1969 Topps #524 a rookie card?
Yes - #524 is a rookie card for every player pictured on it: Jose Laboy and Floyd Wicker.
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.