1969 Topps #625 Mack Jones
About Mack Jones
Cincinnati was a bench year. Alex Johnson, acquired from St. Louis, won left field in spring training, leaving Jones 103 games and a .252 average with 10 home runs and 34 RBI, the line printed on the back of card #625. Montreal took him fourth overall in the October 1968 expansion draft, its second pick behind Manny Mota, and on April 14, 1969 he answered with a three-run homer and a two-run triple in the Expos' first home win at Jarry Park. The card is a series-7 high number.
Mack Jones was signed by the Milwaukee Braves in 1958 out of Atlanta amateur ball, and the left-handed-hitting, right-throwing outfielder reached the majors on July 13, 1961 at age 22, tying a modern National League record with four hits in his first game. He played for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves (1961-1967), the Cincinnati Reds (1968) and the Montreal Expos (1969-1971), mostly in center field and later in left. A .317, 39-homer season at Triple-A Syracuse in 1964 brought him back to a career-high 31 home runs in 1965. Taken by Montreal in the October 1968 expansion draft, he was an immediate favorite there, hitting the first home run struck in a major-league regular-season game in Canada and lending his name to the left-field bleachers at Jarry Park that fans called Jonesville. Nicknamed Mack the Knife after the 1959 Bobby Darin hit, he closed ten major-league seasons at .252 with 133 home runs and 415 RBI, and was inducted into the International League Hall of Fame in 2013.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 305 | 10 | 54 | 166 | 57 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 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 #625 card?
It is card #625 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Mack Jones of the Montreal Expos.
Why is #625 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.