1961 Topps #268 Ike DeLock
About Ike DeLock
Card 268 falls in the third series of the 1961 Topps set, a mid-run number. The season it was issued into was the only one of his career in which he was used exclusively as a starter: 28 games, 28 starts, a 6-9 record, a 4.90 ERA and just three complete games in 156 innings. The best night came May 29, when he beat the Yankees 2-1 on a five-hitter and outdueled Whitey Ford. That offseason he was named the Red Sox player representative.
Ivan Martin "Ike" Delock, born November 11, 1929 in Highland Park, Michigan, was a right-handed pitcher whose eleven big-league seasons were spent with the Boston Red Sox apart from a final month with the Baltimore Orioles. A Marine Corps veteran who learned to pitch on service teams, he signed with Boston in 1948 and climbed through Auburn, Oneonta, Roanoke and Scranton, where he went 20-4 with a 1.92 ERA in 1951, before debuting in April 1952. Boston used him as both a starter and a bullpen workhorse, and his best two pitches were a fastball and a slider. He led the American League with eleven relief wins in 1956, won fourteen games in 1958 behind a thirteen-game winning streak carried over from 1957, and had his finest year in 1959 at 11-6 with a 2.95 ERA. He finished 84-75 with a 4.03 ERA, 672 strikeouts, 32 complete games and 31 saves in 329 games, 147 of them starts, ranking among the top 25 Red Sox pitchers in wins, games, saves, innings and strikeouts. Afterward he lent his name to a Connecticut sports camp and worked in airline sales. He died February 28, 2022 in Raleigh, North Carolina, at 92, and is not a National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 412 | 0 | 42 | 186 | 125 | 35 | 15 | 9 | 0 |
| SGC | 19 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1961 Topps #268 card?
It is card #268 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ike DeLock of the Boston Red Sox.
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.