1968 Topps #59 Don Lock
About Don Lock
Card #59, a first-series issue, covers Lock's first National League season: 14 home runs, 51 RBI and a .252 average in 112 games for the 1967 Phillies. He was still hitting above .300 at the All-Star break before the second half went badly. His best day came in a June 25 doubleheader at St. Louis, where he went 6-for-8 with a home run and three RBI in each game.
Don Wilson Lock, born July 27, 1936, in Wichita, Kansas, played eight major league seasons, 1962 through 1969, as an outfielder for the Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox. A basketball scholarship athlete at Wichita State, he signed with the Yankees in March 1958 for a $12,500 bonus, then led the Carolina League in home runs and RBI with Greensboro in 1959 and the Eastern League in both with Binghamton in 1960. Washington acquired him out of New York's farm system in July 1962 for first baseman Dale Long, and he grew into the Senators' center fielder and their biggest power source. He moved to Philadelphia for 1967 and to Boston for a last half-season in 1969, finishing with a .238 average, 122 home runs and 373 RBI in 921 games. Lock later managed in the minors from 1971 into 1973, farmed the family land in Kansas, and was inducted into the Wichita State basketball and baseball halls of fame, the Wichita Sports Hall of Fame and the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame before his death in Wichita on October 8, 2017.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 343 | 17 | 109 | 151 | 34 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 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. 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 #59 card?
It is card #59 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Don Lock of the Philadelphia Phillies.
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.