1965 Topps #324 Bobby Locke
About Bobby Locke
Locke opened 1965 in the Los Angeles Angels' chain, going 12-5 with a 2.31 ERA for their Pacific Coast League club in Seattle. On July 28 the Angels traded him to Cincinnati for pitcher Jim Coates and a player to be named later, and every big-league inning he threw that year came for the Reds: 11 relief outings, 0-1, a 5.71 ERA across 17.1 innings. His 1965 Topps card, #324, shows him with the Angels, the organization that held his contract when the series was printed. It sits in the fourth series.
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 | 214 | 1 | 38 | 105 | 40 | 19 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-09-04. Half grades fold down for both graders (8.5→8); PSA qualified slabs (OC, ST, PD, MC and the like) are not counted. The two checklist variations, #79 and #508, are listed under the wording PSA uses for each state.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1965 Topps #324 card?
It is card #324 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bobby Locke of the Los Angeles Angels.
How many cards are in the 1965 Topps Baseball set?
598 cards, tracked as 600 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 598 with no gaps and no printed-number collisions, and two checklist cards - #79 and #508 - carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, Baseball Almanac, 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 2026-10-11.