1968 Topps #9 National League 1967 Pitching Leaders - Mike McCormick / Ferguson Jenkins / Jim Bunning / Claude Osteen
On this card: Mike McCormick, Ferguson Jenkins, Jim Bunning, Claude Osteen
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
Card #9 in the 1968 Topps set is a League Leaders subset card naming the National League's top pitchers by wins for 1967: Mike McCormick of the Giants, Ferguson Jenkins of the Cubs, Jim Bunning of the Phillies, and Claude Osteen of the Dodgers. McCormick led the NL with 22 wins and won the NL Cy Young Award, the first won by a Giants pitcher. Jenkins went 20-13, the first of six straight 20-win seasons, and finished tied for second in that year's Cy Young vote behind McCormick. Bunning, in his fourth year with Philadelphia, posted a 17-15 record with a career-best 2.29 ERA, leading the league in shutouts, starts, and innings pitched. Osteen went 17-17 for the Dodgers, earning his first All-Star selection. The card is from print series 1 of the 1968 set.
Mike McCormick was a teenage bonus baby who led the National League in ERA in 1960, lost his fastball to a wrecked shoulder, then rebuilt himself on a screwball and won the 1967 Cy Young Award for the Giants at twenty-nine. Fergie Jenkins was the control artist at the front of the Cubs rotation, winning 20 games in six straight seasons and the 1971 National League Cy Young Award on his way to 284 wins, 3,192 strikeouts and a 1991 Hall of Fame plaque. Jim Bunning was a hard-throwing right-hander who threw no-hitters in both leagues, including a 1964 perfect game for the Phillies, and later served as a US Senator from Kentucky. Claude Osteen - a durable Dodgers left-hander who turned a 1964 trade out of Washington into nine strong seasons, three All-Star nods and the shutout that flipped the 1965 World Series, finishing 196-195 over 18 years.
Sources: Wikipedia (Mike McCormick (pitcher)) · Wikipedia (Ferguson Jenkins) · Wikipedia (Jim Bunning) · Wikipedia (Claude Osteen) · SABR BioProject (Mike Mccormick) · SABR BioProject (Fergie Jenkins) · SABR BioProject (Jim Bunning) · SABR BioProject (Claude Osteen) · National Baseball Hall of Fame · Baseball Almanac (Mike McCormick) · Baseball Almanac · Baseball Almanac (Jim Bunning) · Baseball Almanac (Claude Osteen)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 490 | 5 | 61 | 197 | 89 | 58 | 35 | 44 | 1 |
| SGC | 59 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 15 | 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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- #7 National League 1967 ERA Leaders
- #11 National League 1967 Strikeout Leaders
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #9 card?
It is card #9 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Mike McCormick, Ferguson Jenkins, Jim Bunning and Claude Osteen. 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.
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.