1968 Topps #180 Curt Flood
About Curt Flood
Card #180 is a second-series number in the 1968 set. It reports the best hitting season of Flood's career, 1967: a .335 average with 172 hits and 24 doubles in 514 at-bats over 134 games. Team co-captain alongside catcher Tim McCarver, he helped St. Louis to the pennant and a seven-game World Series win over Boston. His 226-game errorless streak in center field finally ended on June 4 of that summer.
Curtis Charles Flood grew up in Oakland, California, and signed with the Cincinnati Redlegs in 1956. Cincinnati traded him to the St. Louis Cardinals in December 1957, and he held center field there from 1958 through 1969. Flood won seven straight Gold Gloves (1963-1969), made three All-Star teams (1964, 1966, 1968), batted over .300 six times, and ran off 226 consecutive errorless games from September 1965 to June 1967, a National League record for an outfielder. He won World Series rings with St. Louis in 1964 and 1967 and finished fourth in the 1968 NL MVP vote. After the 1969 season the Cardinals traded him to the Philadelphia Phillies; Flood refused to report, told commissioner Bowie Kuhn he was not a piece of property to be bought and sold, and sued Major League Baseball over the reserve clause. He sat out 1970, played 13 games for the Washington Senators in 1971, and lost 5-3 in the Supreme Court in 1972. Free agency arrived anyway by 1976, and Congress named the 1998 Curt Flood Act for him; the Cardinals put him in their team Hall of Fame in 2015. He died in January 1997, two days after his 59th birthday and two years after a throat cancer diagnosis. He has never been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 643 | 21 | 158 | 270 | 71 | 50 | 24 | 48 | 1 |
| SGC | 85 | 0 | 12 | 38 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
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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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #180 card?
It is card #180 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Curt Flood of the St. Louis Cardinals.
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.