1967 Topps #445 Don Sutton
About Don Sutton
Card #445 is Sutton's first solo Topps issue, a fifth-series number; his rookie card is the Rookie Stars card in the previous year's set. The back recaps a rookie year the Dodgers could not repeat. Koufax had retired, the bats went quiet, and Los Angeles dropped to 73-89, its worst finish since 1944. Sutton slumped with the club, going 11-15 with a 3.95 ERA that ranked fourth highest in the National League, though he still worked 232 and two-thirds innings with 11 complete games and three shutouts.
Don Sutton pitched 23 major league seasons from 1966 through 1988 and spent 16 of them with the Los Angeles Dodgers, reaching the majors at 21 after a single season in the minors. Born in Clio, Alabama, to teenaged sharecropper parents who moved the family to the Florida panhandle, he signed with the Dodgers in September 1964 for an estimated $15,000 after a summer of amateur ball. He built the career on command and durability rather than power, logging at least 200 innings in 20 of his first 21 seasons and winning 324 games against 256 losses with a 3.26 ERA, 58 shutouts and 3,574 strikeouts, seventh on the all-time list. He was a four-time All-Star, in 1972, 1973, 1975 and 1977, and MVP of the 1977 All-Star Game, yet he won 20 games only once, going 21-10 in 1976. Opponents accused him for years of scuffing baseballs, and the umpires who searched him never found anything. After Los Angeles let him go as a free agent he pitched for Houston, Milwaukee, Oakland and California, winning his 300th game on June 18, 1986, then closed out with a last Dodgers season in 1988. The writers elected him to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Dodgers retired his number that year.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 829 | 3 | 37 | 215 | 190 | 139 | 108 | 136 | 1 |
| SGC | 166 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 30 | 33 | 31 | 45 | 5 |
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 #445 card?
It is card #445 of the 609-card 1967 Topps Baseball set, picturing Don Sutton 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.