1962 Topps #201 Ike Delock
About Ike Delock
Number 201 sits in the third series of the 1962 Topps set. Delock opened 1962 with five straight no-decisions before rattling off three consecutive wins, two of them complete games. Then on July 2, backing up home plate against Minnesota, he tore ligaments in his right knee and lost 30 days to the disabled list. He came back to blank the Orioles 3-0 on a five-hitter August 11, then dropped four in a row. The final line: 4-5, a 3.75 ERA and 86 1/3 innings over 17 games.
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 | 168 | 0 | 5 | 68 | 70 | 15 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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 #201 card?
It is card #201 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ike Delock of the Boston Red Sox.
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.
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