1968 Topps #460 Jim Lonborg
About Jim Lonborg
Lonborg is on four 1968 Topps cards. Cards #10 and #12 are first-series League Leaders issues, pairing him with Earl Wilson and Dean Chance, then with Sam McDowell and Chance, and World Series card #155, "Lonborg Wins Again!", recalls his Game 5 win. Backs of #10 exist both spelled correctly and misspelled Lonberg; the #12 back spells his name correctly. Card #460, his solo issue, comes from the sixth series. In 1968 itself came a 6-10, 4.29 season, his shoulder sore from favoring the knee he tore skiing.
James Reynold Lonborg, a 6-foot-5 Stanford right-hander, signed with the Boston Red Sox in August 1963 for a $25,000 bonus, more than Baltimore offered. He reached the majors in 1965, went 9-17 with a 4.47 ERA as a groundball pitcher behind a leaky defense, then 10-10 in 1966. In 1967 he carried the Impossible Dream pennant race at 22-9 with a 3.16 ERA, tying for the American League lead in wins and starts and leading it with 246 strikeouts. Named an All-Star that July, he beat Minnesota on the final day to clinch the pennant, then threw a World Series one-hit shutout and a second complete-game win before losing Game Seven on two days rest as St. Louis took the Series four games to three. He became the first Red Sox pitcher to win the Cy Young Award. Skiing that December he tore ligaments in his left knee, and the shoulder trouble that followed cut his workload through 1971. Traded to Milwaukee and then Philadelphia, he won 17 games in 1974 and 18 in 1976, losing his only start in each of the 1976 and 1977 NL Championship Series. He finished 157-137, pitched last in 1979, then practiced dentistry in Massachusetts. Not a National Baseball Hall of Famer, he was elected to the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2002.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 666 | 41 | 285 | 245 | 54 | 17 | 12 | 11 | 1 |
| SGC | 49 | 0 | 17 | 24 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 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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Related cards
More Jim Lonborg in this set: #10 League Leaders, #12 League Leaders
More Boston Red Sox cards:
- #2 American League 1967 Batting Leaders
- #4 American League 1967 RBI Leaders
- #6 American League 1967 Home Run Leaders
- #10 American League 1967 Pitching Leaders
- #12 American League 1967 Strikeout Leaders
- #26 Darrell Brandon
- #43 Gary Bell
- #61 Reggie Smith
- #87 Dick Williams
- #106 Dalton Jones
- #123 Jose Santiago
- #140 Tony Conigliaro
- #152 World Series Game #2 - Yaz Smashes Two Homers
- #155 World Series Game #5 - Lonborg Wins Again!
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #460 card?
It is card #460 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Lonborg of the Boston Red Sox.
Is 1968 Topps #460 a scarce card?
It is from the sixth print series (cards 458-533). Together with series 7 it forms the #458-598 block that hobby sources price at a modest premium; several catalogs call these cards high numbers outright.
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.