1965 Topps #260 Don Drysdale
About Don Drysdale
The 1965 cards report a 1964 whose 18-16 record hides the work behind it: a 2.18 ERA, the second lowest of his career, 237 strikeouts and a career-high 321 1/3 innings with 21 complete games, all for a Dodgers club that finished two games under .500. Card #8 is the earned run average leaders, just Sandy Koufax and Drysdale; #12 is the strikeout leaders, with Pittsburgh's Bob Veale and St. Louis's Bob Gibson ranked ahead of him. Card #260 is his own third-series portrait, the same number his base card carried back in the 1961 set.
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 · Baseball Almanac
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,375 | 1 | 36 | 282 | 317 | 241 | 187 | 311 | 0 |
| SGC | 296 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 45 | 63 | 73 | 82 | 16 |
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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Related cards
More Don Drysdale in this set: #8 League Leaders, #12 League Leaders
Team card: #126 Los Angeles Dodgers
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- #8 National League 1964 ERA Leaders
- #12 National League 1964 Strikeout Leaders
- #40 Frank Howard
- #59 Nate Oliver
- #77 Doug Camilli
- #98 Bob Miller
- #112 Derrell Griffith
- #119 John Kennedy
- #196 Ron Fairly
- #217 Walt Alston
- #238 Joe Moeller
- #247 Wally Moon
- #279 Dick Tracewski
- #300 Sandy Koufax
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1965 Topps #260 card?
It is card #260 of the 598-card 1965 Topps Baseball set, picturing Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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.