1969 Topps #308 Wade Blasingame
About Wade Blasingame
Card #308, from the third series of 1969 Topps, shows Blasingame with the Houston Astros during a season that saw him mostly out of the bullpen. He appeared in 26 games, five as a starter, working 52 innings with a 5.37 ERA and no decisions in the win column against five losses. Houston was still working to escape the run of 90-loss seasons that had defined its early years as a franchise.
Wade Blasingame was a hard-throwing left-hander out of Fresno, California, who signed with the Milwaukee Braves in 1961 for a $125,000 bonus after a perfect 26-0 prep career at Theodore Roosevelt High School. He debuted with the Braves in September 1963 and broke through in 1965, going 16-10 with 224.2 innings and league-best fielding among NL pitchers as the club played its final Milwaukee season. Finger and shoulder trouble followed in 1966, and a June 1967 trade sent him to the Houston Astros, where he pitched through the 1971 season as a starter and reliever. He closed his career with the New York Yankees in 1972. Over ten major league seasons he went 46-51 with a 4.52 ERA in 222 games. He later returned to Fresno, the city where he had starred as a schoolboy pitcher, and in 1985 was inducted into the Fresno County Athletic Hall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 208 | 1 | 25 | 115 | 44 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 0 |
| SGC | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 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 #308 card?
It is card #308 of the 664-card 1969 Topps Baseball set, picturing Wade Blasingame of the Houston Astros.
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.