'59 Topps Friday Cards 350-354: Hall of Famers Ernie Banks & Robin Roberts + Curt Flood's Journey

We built the iconic 1959 Topps baseball set, and in this series, we’re going through every card to talk about the players, teams and people who made up major league baseball in 1959. Today, we’ll cover cards 350 through 354 in this set. This includes the Hall of Fame careers of "Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks and longtime Phillies ace Robin Roberts, plus the journey of Curt Flood, a star centerfielder who took on the owners in a case that reshaped sports forever.
Thanks so much to subscriber Larry R for the photo with Torgeson from 1959 we featured today.
Today's episode was written by Jake T. O'Donnell and Abby O'Donnell.
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Here is our source material for today's episode:
Ernie Banks
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Earl Torgeson
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Curt Flood
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Wikipedia, SABR, MLB dot com, baseball reference dot com,
The Biographical History of Baseball by: Donal Dewey and Nicholas Acocella
The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract