1967 Topps #55 Don Drysdale
About Don Drysdale
Card #55 in the 1967 set carries a 1966 that finally went against him: 13-16, his first losing record since 1958, though the 3.42 ERA came across 273 2/3 innings and 11 complete games. The Dodgers won the pennant anyway, the fifth he and Sandy Koufax won together, then were swept by Baltimore in the World Series, Drysdale losing twice, the last a 1-0 duel with Dave McNally decided by a Frank Robinson home run. Koufax's arthritic elbow forced him out of the game at 30 that winter, so this card pictures the pitcher left to carry the staff.
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.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,554 | 2 | 49 | 344 | 332 | 305 | 185 | 330 | 7 |
| SGC | 374 | 0 | 6 | 33 | 58 | 78 | 87 | 109 | 3 |
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 #55 card?
It is card #55 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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.