1963 Topps #136 Ike Delock
About Ike Delock
Card 136 comes from the second series of the 1963 Topps set, and it is Delock's last Topps card of the decade. He was the longest-tenured man on the Red Sox roster by then, but after six starts and a 1-2 record with a 4.50 ERA he fell out with rookie manager Johnny Pesky over a sore arm. Boston released him on June 9 and Baltimore signed him the same day. His first Orioles start, June 16, came against his old club, and he lost it. He pitched for the last time on July 13, and the Orioles released him six days later: 1-3, 5.04 in seven 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 | 243 | 1 | 7 | 90 | 102 | 31 | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 13 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 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.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1963 Topps #136 card?
It is card #136 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ike Delock of the Boston Red Sox.
How many cards are in the 1963 Topps Baseball set?
576 cards, tracked as 583 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 576 with no gaps and no number used twice, and seven cards carry a catalogued print variation - three checklists, the two Rookie Stars cards also printed with a "1962" heading, and the #341 Jack Baldschun and #454 Art Fowler print states - that the master set counts separately.
Sources: 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.