1968 Topps #145 Don Drysdale
Issued in packs during the spring of Drysdale's record scoreless-inning streak.
About Don Drysdale
Card #145 carries a 1967 line that reads worse than he pitched: 13-16 again, but with a 2.74 ERA, 196 strikeouts and 282 innings, and another National League All-Star selection. It is a second-series card, which put it in packs through May and June of 1968, the weeks Drysdale ran off six straight shutouts, on May 14, 18, 22, 26 and 31 and June 4, and pushed his scoreless streak to 58 2/3 innings past the mark Walter Johnson had set in 1913.
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.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference · National Baseball Hall of Fame · Baseball Almanac (1) · Baseball Almanac (2)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,920 | 59 | 280 | 480 | 287 | 267 | 197 | 350 | 0 |
| SGC | 423 | 6 | 23 | 74 | 72 | 75 | 58 | 102 | 13 |
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. Slabs of the yellow team-letter #49 and #66 are 1968 Milton Bradley game cards and are not counted here.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #145 card?
It is card #145 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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.