1961 Topps #510 Art Ditmar
About Art Ditmar
All three look back on 1960, the best season Ditmar had: 15 wins and a 3.06 ERA over a club-leading 200 innings. Cards 46 and 48 are first-series League Leaders panels, 46 grouping him with Frank Baumann, Jim Bunning and Hal Brown among the American League's ERA leaders, 48 placing him with Chuck Estrada, Jim Perry, Bud Daley, Frank Lary and Milt Pappas among its leaders in games won. His own card, 510, comes from the sixth print series, and it carries the harder memory: Casey Stengel handed him Games One and Five of the World Series against Pittsburgh, and he retired one batter in the opener and could not finish the second inning five days later, charged with both losses.
Arthur John Ditmar, a right-handed pitcher born April 3, 1929, in Winthrop, Massachusetts, grew up across the state in Pittsfield, where he went 14-2 and captained the Pittsfield High team as a senior. He signed with the Philadelphia Athletics for a $1,000 bonus in 1947, served in the Army during the Korean War, and debuted April 19, 1954; that September 26 he beat the Yankees 8-6 for the last victory the Philadelphia Athletics ever recorded. A finesse control pitcher who credited coach George Susce for the sinker that became his best pitch, Ditmar led the Kansas City staff in wins in 1955, then lost a major-league-worst 22 games in 1956. New York bought low, acquiring him and Bobby Shantz in a multiplayer trade on February 19, 1957. He won 47 games in five Yankee seasons, relieving as often as he started behind Whitey Ford, Shantz, Don Larsen and Bob Turley before becoming the staff workhorse in 1959 and 1960, and he earned a ring in the 1958 World Series. Traded back to Kansas City in June 1961, he finished in 1962 at 72-77 with a 3.98 ERA and 552 strikeouts in 1,268 innings. He entered the Western Massachusetts Baseball Hall of Fame in 2015 and died June 11, 2021, at 92.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 419 | 2 | 32 | 226 | 101 | 36 | 15 | 7 | 0 |
| SGC | 37 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 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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Related cards
More Art Ditmar in this set: #46 League Leaders, #48 League Leaders
Team card: #228 New York Yankees Team
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- #28 Hector Lopez
- #40 Bob Turley
- #68 Deron Johnson
- #104 John Blanchard
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- #133 Ralph Houk
- #142 Luis Arroyo
- #160 Whitey Ford
- #180 Bobby Richardson
- #213 Bill Stafford
- #252 Bill Short
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1961 Topps #510 card?
It is card #510 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Art Ditmar of the New York Yankees.
Why is #510 harder to find?
It is from the sixth print series (cards 447-522) - noticeably tougher than the first five, easier than the true highs.
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.