1962 Topps #398 Don Drysdale
About this card
Cards #390-399 are the ten National League All-Stars, printed in the fifth series.
About Don Drysdale
The 1962 cards carry Drysdale's 1961 line: 13-10 with a 3.69 ERA and 182 strikeouts across 244 innings, plus the 20 batters he plunked, a fourth straight year leading the National League in hit batsmen. Card #60 is the league's strikeout leaders card, headed by Sandy Koufax's 269 and rounded out by Stan Williams and Jim O'Toole. His fourth-series card #340 and his fifth-series National League All-Star card, #398, were in packs while the best season of his life was happening: the 25 wins and the Cy Young Award belong to 1962 itself, not to the year these cards report.
Don Drysdale pitched his entire 14-year career, 1956 through 1969, for the Dodgers, debuting in Brooklyn as a 19-year-old and moving west with the franchise in 1958. A sidearming right-hander known as Big D, he owned the inside corner and said so plainly: his rule was two for one, two knockdowns for every teammate of his who went down. He won the 1962 Cy Young Award, at a time when a single award covered all of baseball, after going 25-9 with 232 strikeouts, and he pitched on World Series winners in 1959, 1963 and 1965. In 1968 he threw six straight shutouts and 58 2/3 consecutive scoreless innings, a record that stood for twenty years. He could hit, too, tying the National League record for home runs by a pitcher with seven in 1958 and again in 1965. Recurring shoulder trouble, eventually diagnosed as a torn rotator cuff, ended his career in 1969 after only 12 starts and left him with 209 wins, a 2.95 ERA, 2,486 strikeouts and 154 batters hit, a modern National League record. Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1984 on his tenth ballot, he broadcast for five franchises and for NBC and ABC until his death in 1993.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · National Baseball Hall of Fame
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 864 | 0 | 31 | 244 | 266 | 161 | 73 | 87 | 2 |
| SGC | 174 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 39 | 30 | 45 | 36 | 2 |
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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Related cards
More Don Drysdale in this set: #60 League Leaders, #340
Team card: #43 Los Angeles Dodgers Team
More Los Angeles Dodgers cards:
- #5 Sandy Koufax
- #32 John Roseboro
- #69 Phil Ortega
- #108 Willie Davis
- #129 Lee Walls
- #131 Pete Richert
- #175 Frank Howard
- #190 Wally Moon
- #197 Daryl Spencer
- #217 Walt Alston
- #238 Norm Sherry
- #280 Johnny Podres
- #297 Ron Perranoski
- #340 Don Drysdale
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1962 Topps #398 card?
It is card #398 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Cards #390-399 are the ten National League All-Stars, printed in the fifth series.
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.