1968 Topps #103 Don Sutton
About Don Sutton
Card #103 comes from the first series of the 1968 set, a regular number. Topps gave the 22-year-old a spotlight slot anyway. Collectors were opening these packs while Sutton was playing catch-up: he had spent the winter on Army Reserve duty as a private at Fort Gordon, Georgia, reported to camp late after a mid-March discharge, and began the year at Triple-A Spokane. A second straight sluggish start sent him to the Los Angeles bullpen on June 20. He came back to the rotation in late July, went 7-7 with a 2.06 ERA the rest of the way, and finished 11-15 with a 2.60 ERA, the lowest of his career to that point.
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 | 1,291 | 5 | 228 | 433 | 228 | 130 | 97 | 170 | 0 |
| SGC | 193 | 1 | 10 | 28 | 33 | 35 | 36 | 44 | 6 |
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 #103 card?
It is card #103 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Don Sutton 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.