1971 Topps #433 Skip Lockwood
About Skip Lockwood
Lockwood spent the winter after the 1970 season pitching for Mayaguez in the Puerto Rican League, having married Kathleen Murphy that June. Back in Milwaukee in 1971 he made 32 starts in 33 appearances and worked 208 innings. He went 10-15 with a 3.33 ERA and 115 strikeouts. He completed 5 games, one of them a shutout. His fourth-series #433 shows him with the Milwaukee Brewers.
Claude Edward Lockwood Jr., called Skip since he was two, signed with the Kansas City Athletics out of West Roxbury's Catholic Memorial High School in June 1964 - as a third baseman, despite going 22-2 on the mound in high school. When the Athletics slid a $35,000 contract across the table, the seventeen-year-old asked for the pen, wrote a 1 in front of the figure and handed it back; a phone call to owner Charlie Finley approved the $135,000. The bonus rule of the day parked him on the Kansas City bench for all of 1965, watching Ed Charles play third base and rooming with fellow bonus signee Catfish Hunter. After two more seasons in the minor leagues, the Athletics made him a pitcher, and Seattle took him in the 1968 expansion draft. He debuted on the mound for the Pilots in 1969, followed the franchise to Milwaukee, where he mostly started, and went to California in a nine-player trade. He pitched in relief for the New York Mets from 1975 through 1979, saving 19 games in 1976 and 20 in 1977. He finished with Boston in 1980. Off the field, he graduated cum laude from Emerson College in 1976 and added an MIT master's degree in 1983.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 296 | 0 | 6 | 140 | 124 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 14 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-10-19. Half grades fold down for both graders (8.5→8); PSA qualified slabs (OC, ST, PD, MC and the like) are not counted.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1971 Topps #433 card?
It is card #433 of the 752-card 1971 Topps Baseball set, picturing Skip Lockwood of the Milwaukee Brewers.
How many cards are in the 1971 Topps Baseball set?
752 cards, tracked as 761 collectible states. Numbers run from 1 to 752 with none skipped, issued in six print series (132/131/130/130/120/109 cards), the sixth (#644-752) the high numbers; seven cards carry catalogued print variations that the master set counts separately - the #42, #265 and #306 photo pairs and the #123, #206, #369 and #619 checklists, #369 and #619 in three printings each.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA (its price guide, master set registry and set article), BaseballCardPedia, Cardboard Connection, Baseball Almanac, 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 2026-10-25.