1961 Topps #48 American League 1960 Pitching Leaders Games Won - Chuck Estrada / Jim Perry / Bud Daley / Art Ditmar / Frank Lary / Milt Pappas
On this card: Chuck Estrada, Jim Perry, Bud Daley, Art Ditmar, Frank Lary, Milt Pappas
About this card
Cards #41-50 are the League Leaders subset - the first Topps set to carry one - each card listing the 1960 leaders in one statistical category, the National League card first and the American League card second in each pair.
The story on this card
Card 48 opens the 1961 Topps League Leaders subset with the American League's 1960 win leaders, a board where nobody reached 20. Cleveland's Jim Perry (18-10) and Baltimore rookie Chuck Estrada (18-11) tied for the lead, Perry piling his up for a 76-78 fourth-place club. Kansas City's Bud Daley was third at 16-16 for a last-place team that lost 96 games. Three more finished at 15: Art Ditmar (15-9) led the pennant-winning Yankees, ahead of Whitey Ford's 12; Detroit's Frank Lary, an All-Star that summer, went 15-15; and Estrada's Baltimore teammate Milt Pappas went 15-11.
Chuck Estrada was a hard-throwing Baltimore right-hander who tied for the American League lead with 18 wins as a 1960 rookie and was an All-Star twice that summer, before elbow surgery in 1963 cut his career short. Jim Perry, older brother of Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry, pitched 17 big-league seasons for Cleveland, Minnesota, Detroit, and Oakland, winning 215 games. A swingman for years, he broke through as a full-time starter and won the 1970 AL Cy Young Award. A left-handed knuckleballer with a right arm he could not straighten, Daley won 16 games in each of his two All-Star seasons at Kansas City, then took the win in the Yankees' clinching Game Five of the 1961 World Series. Art Ditmar - a finesse right-hander whose sinker carried him from a major-league-worst 22 losses in Kansas City to five seasons with the Yankees, where he shuttled between bullpen and rotation and won 47 games. Frank Lary - Detroit right-hander they called the Yankee Killer, 27-10 against New York from 1955 through 1961. Three-time All-Star, 1961 Gold Glove winner, and a 23-9 ace for the 101-win Tigers that same summer. Milt Pappas - a Detroit-born control pitcher who reached Baltimore at 18, anchored the Orioles' Kiddie Korps rotation, started the 1965 All-Star Game, and was then traded to Cincinnati for Frank Robinson in one of baseball's most famous deals.
Sources: Wikipedia (Chuck Estrada) · Wikipedia (Jim Perry) · Wikipedia (Bud Daley) · Wikipedia (Art Ditmar) · Wikipedia (Frank Lary) · Wikipedia (Milt Pappas) · SABR BioProject (Chuck Estrada) · SABR BioProject (Jim Perry) · SABR BioProject (Bud Daley) · SABR BioProject (Art Ditmar) · SABR BioProject (Frank Lary) · SABR BioProject (Milt Pappas) · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (Chuck Estrada) · Baseball Almanac (2) · Baseball Almanac (3) · Baseball Almanac (4) · Baseball Almanac (Jim Perry) · Baseball Almanac (Bud Daley) · Baseball Almanac (Frank Lary) · Baseball Almanac (Milt Pappas)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 575 | 0 | 55 | 268 | 129 | 68 | 25 | 29 | 1 |
| SGC | 53 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-09-04. PSA counts are straight grades only; PSA half grades (PSA 1.5 among them) and qualified slabs are not included. SGC half grades fold down (8.5→8). Slabs of the two cards printed #463 are joined by description, never by number alone.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1961 Topps #48 card?
It is card #48 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Chuck Estrada, Jim Perry, Bud Daley, Art Ditmar, Frank Lary and Milt Pappas. Cards #41-50 are the League Leaders subset - the first Topps set to carry one - each card listing the 1960 leaders in one statistical category, the National League card first and the American League card second in each pair.
How many cards are in the 1961 Topps Baseball set?
587 cards, tracked as 596 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 589, but #426, #587 and #588 were never issued and two different cards were printed #463 - Jack Fisher and the Milwaukee Braves Team card, catalogued 463b - and eight cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, The Topps Archives, 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 2026-10-05.