1968 Topps #10 American League 1967 Pitching Leaders - Jim Lonborg / Earl Wilson / Dean Chance
On this card: Jim Lonborg, Earl Wilson, Dean Chance
The back text was printed in two states, one misspelling Lonborg's name; the corrected-spelling printing is treated as the primary version here. A similarly styled 1968 Milton Bradley Win-A-Card exists from the same year but is a separate, non-Topps product.
About this card
Cards #1-12 are the League Leaders subset: twelve horizontal cards, each listing the top three or four finishers in one 1967 statistical category, the National League card first and the American League card second in each pair.
The story on this card
This 1968 Topps #10 League Leaders card recaps the American League's top three winners from the 1967 season: Jim Lonborg and Earl Wilson tied for the junior circuit lead with 22 wins apiece, while Dean Chance finished third with 20. Lonborg's Red Sox capped the pennant race that October in a season that also brought him the AL Cy Young Award. Wilson anchored a Detroit rotation that would go on to win the World Series the following year. Chance, who went 20-14 for the Twins that year, was outdueled by Lonborg on the final day of that same four-team pennant chase. The card's back text exists in two printing states, one carrying a misspelling of Lonborg's name; the corrected spelling is treated as the base printing here.
Jim Lonborg - Boston's 1967 Cy Young winner and Gentleman Jim, the soft-spoken Stanford product who outdueled Minnesota on the pennant's final day, then threw a World Series one-hitter before knee and shoulder injuries reshaped a career that ran through Milwaukee and Philadelphia. Earl Wilson, a Louisiana right-hander, no-hit the Angels for Boston in 1962, tied for the American League lead with 22 wins for Detroit in 1967, and pitched for the 1968 world champion Tigers while ranking among the best home-run-hitting pitchers the game has had. Dean Chance was the hard-throwing Angels right-hander who won the 1964 Cy Young Award at 20-9 with a 1.65 ERA, then threw a nine-inning no-hitter and a rain-shortened five-inning perfect game for Minnesota in 1967 on his way to Comeback Player of the Year honors.
Sources: Wikipedia (Jim Lonborg) · Wikipedia (Earl Wilson) · Wikipedia (Dean Chance) · SABR BioProject (Jim Lonborg) · SABR BioProject (Earl Wilson) · SABR BioProject (Dean Chance) · Baseball Almanac (Earl Wilson) · Baseball Almanac (Dean Chance) · Baseball Almanac
Print variations
Two states of #10 are tracked individually: 10a - Lonborg On Back and 10b - Lonberg On Back. The difference is on the back of the card (spelling).
States catalogued by the PSA master set registry and the Trading Card Database; each is tracked here individually.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10a - Lonborg On Back | |||||||||
| PSA | 356 | 4 | 38 | 134 | 87 | 48 | 23 | 22 | 0 |
| SGC | 36 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| 10b - Lonberg On Back | |||||||||
| PSA | 257 | 0 | 15 | 84 | 72 | 47 | 14 | 24 | 1 |
| SGC | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 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 a grader registers a variation separately its population is listed under that variation; SGC slabs whose label names no variation are counted under 10a - Lonborg On Back. Slabs of the yellow team-letter #49 and #66 are 1968 Milton Bradley game cards and are not counted here.
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Related cards
Team cards: #528 Detroit Tigers, #137 Minnesota Twins
More Boston Red Sox cards:
- #2 American League 1967 Batting Leaders
- #4 American League 1967 RBI Leaders
- #6 American League 1967 Home Run Leaders
- #12 American League 1967 Strikeout Leaders
- #26 Darrell Brandon
- #43 Gary Bell
More Detroit Tigers cards:
- #2 American League 1967 Batting Leaders
- #22 Pat Dobson
- #40 Denny McLain
- #58 Ed Mathews
- #78 Jim Northrup
- #113 Tigers 1968 Rookie Stars
More Minnesota Twins cards:
- #4 American League 1967 RBI Leaders
- #6 American League 1967 Home Run Leaders
- #12 American League 1967 Strikeout Leaders
- #28 Ted Uhlaender
- #44 Frank Kostro
- #64 Jim Merritt
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #10 card?
It is card #10 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Lonborg, Earl Wilson and Dean Chance. Cards #1-12 are the League Leaders subset: twelve horizontal cards, each listing the top three or four finishers in one 1967 statistical category, the National League card first and the American League card second in each pair.
Which #10 is the base card, "Lonborg" or "Lonberg"?
The corrected "Lonborg" back is the base state here. Hobby catalogs list the misspelled "Lonberg" back first as 10A, so the two states are always named by their wording, never by a bare letter.
Does 1968 Topps #10 have variations?
Yes. Two states are catalogued and tracked individually: 10a - Lonborg On Back (The corrected back spells Jim Lonborg "Lonborg" - the base state. Hobby catalogs list the misspelled state first as 10A) and 10b - Lonberg On Back (The error back spells him "Lonberg"). Owning any one of them fills the #10 slot; the master set counts each state.
How many cards are in the 1968 Topps Baseball set?
598 cards, tracked as 606 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 598 without a gap and no printed number carries two different cards; eight cards - six of the seven checklists, #10 AL Pitching Leaders and #400 Mike McCormick - carry a catalogued print variation that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, Baseball Almanac, Beckett, 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.