1955 Topps #47, Hank Aaron ⭐ Presidential Medal of Freedom
My Dad pulled this card from a pack in 1955; I sent it to PSA this year.
Hank is a MLB Pioneer who started his pro baseball career in the Negro League.
He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom—the highest civilian award in the United States—on July 9, 2002.

He was honored not only for his historic athletic career in Major League Baseball (including breaking Babe Ruth's home run record and finishing with 755 home runs and 2,297 RBIs), but also for his courage, civil rights activism, and philanthropic work, such as the Chasing the Dream Foundation that he co-founded with his wife Billye.

Hank was the fifth former Major League Baseball player to receive the honor.