1966 Topps #165 Don Lock
About Don Lock
Card #165, a second-series issue, reports a down year: 16 home runs, 39 RBI and a .215 average across 143 games in 1965, well off the 27- and 28-homer form of the two seasons before. Lock took a salary cut of about ten percent for 1966 and said that spring that he was ashamed of how badly he had played. The card is also one Topps carried into its 1966 Venezuelan printing, a separate issue collectors track alongside the regular set.
Don Wilson Lock, born July 27, 1936, in Wichita, Kansas, played eight major league seasons, 1962 through 1969, as an outfielder for the Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox. A basketball scholarship athlete at Wichita State, he signed with the Yankees in March 1958 for a $12,500 bonus, then led the Carolina League in home runs and RBI with Greensboro in 1959 and the Eastern League in both with Binghamton in 1960. Washington acquired him out of New York's farm system in July 1962 for first baseman Dale Long, and he grew into the Senators' center fielder and their biggest power source. He moved to Philadelphia for 1967 and to Boston for a last half-season in 1969, finishing with a .238 average, 122 home runs and 373 RBI in 921 games. Lock later managed in the minors from 1971 into 1973, farmed the family land in Kansas, and was inducted into the Wichita State basketball and baseball halls of fame, the Wichita Sports Hall of Fame and the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame before his death in Wichita on October 8, 2017.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 206 | 7 | 40 | 96 | 36 | 13 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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. Where SGC registers no separate row for a variation state, its slabs of that card are listed under the base state.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1966 Topps #165 card?
It is card #165 of the 598-card 1966 Topps Baseball set, picturing Don Lock of the Washington Senators.
How many cards are in the 1966 Topps Baseball set?
598 cards, tracked as 613 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 598 with no gaps and no number used twice, and 14 cards carry catalogued print variations - five checklists, the trade and sold statement backs, the three-state #43 Don Landrum, three team-card dot pairs and the #161 Jerry Lumpe white streak - that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, 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.