1967 Topps #288 Denver Lemaster
About Denver Lemaster
Card #288 is a fourth-series issue, and its back covers the loudest summer Lemaster had. On August 9, 1966, in Billy Hitchcock's first game as Atlanta manager, he beat Sandy Koufax 2-1 before 52,270 at Atlanta Stadium, then the ballpark's biggest crowd: nine innings, three hits, two walks, 10 strikeouts, no hit allowed until Lefebvre led off the eighth with a home run, and Eddie Mathews ending it with a ninth-inning homer off Koufax. Five days later he struck out 14 Phillies, the most by any Atlanta Braves pitcher until John Smoltz broke it in 1992. A pinched nerve in his left elbow then knocked him out for the year in his next start; he finished 11-8, 3.74, with 10 complete games in 27 starts.
Denver Clayton "Denny" Lemaster was a left-handed pitcher who spent eleven seasons in the majors (1962-1972) with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves, the Houston Astros and the Montreal Expos. Born in Corona, California and raised in Oxnard, he threw seven no-hitters at Oxnard High School and signed with the Braves in 1958 as the club's chosen heir to Warren Spahn. He reached Milwaukee on July 15, 1962, was a 1967 National League All-Star, and moved to Houston that October. He finished 90-105 with a 3.58 ERA, 66 complete games, 14 shutouts and 1,305 strikeouts in 357 games; Joe Torre, who caught him with both Braves clubs, remembered a fastball near 93 miles an hour, a super curve and no fear of working inside. Lemaster later spent more than 30 years in homebuilding, guided hunting and fishing trips, and became an accomplished carver and painter of wooden wildlife. He belongs to the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame in his native California. He died July 24, 2024, in Loganville, Georgia, at 85.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 284 | 6 | 73 | 147 | 40 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 |
| SGC | 9 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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. PSA registers a row for every one of the 624 states; SGC lists no separate row for the #149 white-streak state.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1967 Topps #288 card?
It is card #288 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Denver Lemaster of the Atlanta Braves.
How many cards are in the 1967 Topps Baseball set?
609 cards, tracked as 624 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 609 without a gap - no number was skipped and none was used twice - and 15 cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, Baseball Almanac, BaseballCardPedia, 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 2026-10-12.