1961 Topps #222 Jimmie Dykes
About this card
Cards #131-139 and #219-226 are the manager subset: seventeen skippers in the same portrait layout as the players.
About Jimmie Dykes
By 1961 Dykes was in his second season running the Cleveland Indians, having arrived the previous August in one of the strangest deals on record: general manager Frank Lane swapped managers with Detroit, sending Joe Gordon to the Tigers and bringing Dykes over. Cleveland held first place in June, then collapsed, finishing 78-83 and fifth in the newly expanded ten-team American League. It was his last job as a big league manager. Topps put him at #222 in the 1961 set's manager subset, a third-series card.
James Joseph Dykes broke into the majors on May 6, 1918 as a second baseman for Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics and stayed in Philadelphia through the 1932 season, shifting mainly to third base from 1922 as Mack juggled a stacked infield. A career .280 hitter across 22 seasons, he topped .300 five times and helped the Athletics win three straight pennants (1929-31) and back-to-back World Series titles in 1929 and 1930, batting .421 in the 1929 Series against the Cubs. Mack, squeezed by the Depression, sold him to the Chicago White Sox with Al Simmons and Mule Haas for $100,000 in September 1932. Dykes played in the first All-Star Game in 1933 and was chosen again in 1934, by which time Chicago had already installed him as player-manager. His 899 wins made him the winningest manager in White Sox history, though his clubs there never finished above third. He also managed the Athletics, Orioles, Redlegs, Tigers and Indians, six big league clubs in all plus a minor league stop, and coached for Milwaukee and Kansas City through 1964. A testy umpire-baiter who liked to use his whole roster, he finished 1,406-1,541 without ever winning a pennant. Philadelphia later put him on its Baseball Wall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 305 | 2 | 38 | 142 | 81 | 24 | 8 | 8 | 2 |
| SGC | 13 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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 #222 card?
It is card #222 of the 587-card 1961 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jimmie Dykes of the Cleveland Indians. Cards #131-139 and #219-226 are the manager subset: seventeen skippers in the same portrait layout as the players.
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.