1962 Topps #268 Ken McBride
About Ken McBride
Card #268 in the 1962 set is another third-series number, and it caught McBride in the middle of the best summer he ever had. He reeled off 10 straight wins before the break, a club record that stood for years, and was 11-3 in July when a sharp pain in his side turned out to be a cracked rib and pleurisy. He pitched only twice more and ended at 11-5 with a 3.50 ERA in 24 games. The injury did not cost him his second straight All-Star nod: he was named to the American League roster for the second of the two All-Star Games played that season. The Angels, in only their second year, finished third.
Kenneth Faye McBride was born August 12, 1935, in Huntsville, Alabama, and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, where he starred in baseball and basketball at West High School and led the basketball team to a state championship in 1952. The Boston Red Sox signed him for a $500 bonus after he graduated in 1953, and he spent six seasons in their farm system before the first-place Chicago White Sox bought his contract on August 1, 1959. Three days later he made his major league debut, starting at Baltimore. Left unprotected that winter, he was the Angels' seventh pick in the December 1960 expansion draft, and Los Angeles made him: he anchored the rotation for three years, went 36-32 from 1961 through 1963, and was named to the American League All-Star team in all three seasons, starting the 1963 game in his hometown of Cleveland. An arm injury in his second start of 1964 took away his sinker and curve, and he closed a seven-year career with a 40-50 record, a 3.79 ERA and 503 strikeouts. He later coached in the Milwaukee organization and was the Brewers' major league pitching coach in 1974 and 1975, then went home to Cleveland to raise his family and run a construction company.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 162 | 0 | 2 | 74 | 62 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 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 #268 card?
It is card #268 of the 600-card 1962 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ken McBride of the Los Angeles Angels.
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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