1968 Topps #11 National League 1967 Strikeout Leaders - Jim Bunning / Ferguson Jenkins / Gaylord Perry
On this card: Jim Bunning, Ferguson Jenkins, Gaylord Perry
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
This League Leaders card sums up the National League strikeout race from 1967. Jim Bunning of the Phillies topped the group with 253 strikeouts, backed by a career-best 2.29 ERA and a league-leading six shutouts. Right behind him was the Cubs' Ferguson Jenkins, who fanned 236 in his first full year as a starter while going 20-13 and finishing second in Cy Young voting. The Giants' Gaylord Perry rounded out the group, striking out 230 batters in a 15-17 season built on a stingy 2.61 ERA. All three were established workhorses at the top of their league, and the card lines their photos above the shared strikeout totals from that race.
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. 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. Gaylord Perry was a cunning San Francisco Giants right-hander notorious for the spitball he spent two decades denying, a five-time All-Star who won Cy Young Awards in both leagues and finished with 314 wins and 3,534 strikeouts before his 1991 Hall of Fame election.
Sources: Wikipedia (Jim Bunning) · Wikipedia (Ferguson Jenkins) · Wikipedia (Gaylord Perry) · SABR BioProject (Jim Bunning) · SABR BioProject (Fergie Jenkins) · SABR BioProject (Gaylord Perry) · National Baseball Hall of Fame · Baseball Almanac (Jim Bunning) · Baseball Almanac (Gaylord Perry)
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 780 | 16 | 114 | 312 | 137 | 79 | 42 | 77 | 3 |
| SGC | 88 | 2 | 7 | 21 | 14 | 19 | 14 | 11 | 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
Team card: #477 Philadelphia Phillies
More Philadelphia Phillies cards:
- #1 National League 1967 Batting Leaders
- #7 National League 1967 ERA Leaders
- #9 National League 1967 Pitching Leaders
- #17 Dick Hall
- #39 Cookie Rojas
- #59 Don Lock
More Chicago Cubs cards:
- #5 National League 1967 Home Run Leaders
- #9 National League 1967 Pitching Leaders
- #13 Chuck Hartenstein
- #37 Billy Williams
- #60 Ken Holtzman
- #83 John Stephenson
More San Francisco Giants cards:
- #5 National League 1967 Home Run Leaders
- #9 National League 1967 Pitching Leaders
- #32 Joe Gibbon
- #50 Willie Mays
- #73 Jim Hart
- #85 Gaylord Perry
Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #11 card?
It is card #11 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Jim Bunning, Ferguson Jenkins and Gaylord Perry. 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.