1962 Topps #359 Bobby Locke
About Bobby Locke
The 1962 Topps card, #359, puts Locke in a Cubs cap for a club he never threw a regular-season pitch for. Chicago had acquired him the previous November, then watched a strange spring: his arm tightened during an intrasquad game and, unsure which coach to report to under Philip K. Wrigley's rotating College of Coaches, he walked off the mound on his own. The Cubs traded him to St. Louis for outfielder Al Herring on April 7, days before the opener. He threw two scoreless innings in his lone Cardinals outing, and on April 28 St. Louis sent him and cash to the Phillies for pitcher Don Ferrarese. The card is a fourth-series issue.
Lawrence Donald "Bobby" Locke was a right-handed pitcher born March 3, 1934, in Rowes Run, Pennsylvania, the eighth of ten children in a coal-mining family. A football and baseball star at Redstone High School in Republic, Pennsylvania, he signed with the Cleveland Indians in 1953 for a $6,000 bonus offered by scout Laddie Placek, then led the Florida State League with 247 strikeouts as a 19-year-old at Daytona Beach. Two years in the Army interrupted his climb. He reached Cleveland in June 1959 and homered in his second big-league at-bat, a three-run shot off Frank Sullivan at Fenway Park that stood as the only home run of his career. Over parts of nine seasons with the Indians, Cardinals, Phillies, Reds, and Angels he went 16-15 with a 4.02 ERA and 194 strikeouts in 416.2 innings, starting just 23 of his 165 games and working almost entirely in relief after mid-1961. He pitched in Triple-A through 1969, later spent 26 years selling for Frito-Lay, and was elected to the Mid-Mon Valley and Fayette County sports halls of fame. He died June 4, 2020, in Dunbar, Pennsylvania.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 232 | 0 | 2 | 36 | 108 | 52 | 19 | 15 | 0 |
| SGC | 8 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-09-24. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8), and PSA's qualified grades are counted separately from the straight-grade rows shown here. Slabs of the three cards printed #139 are joined by description, never by number alone. PSA registers the green tints as a separate set; a tint's population is listed under that state of the card it belongs to.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #359 card?
It is card #359 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bobby Locke of the Chicago Cubs.
How many cards are in the 1962 Topps Baseball set?
600 cards, tracked as 708 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 598 with no gaps, but three different cards were printed #139 - two Hal Reniff poses, catalogued 139a and 139b, and the Babe Hits 60 Babe Ruth Special, 139c - so 598 numbers make 600 cards; 93 cards carry catalogued print variations, the series-2 green tints among them, that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Baseball Almanac, Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, 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 2026-10-03.