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    It's my turn to hop aboard the pink bandwagon.   As you may know, Collecting Cutch has been keeping the focus on Breast Cancer Awareness month by posting every day and tying Andrew McCutchen cards to various entertainment hotties with ... uh ... notable dimensions.   Most of the pink cards that he's shown are impressive. They're also mostly recent cards from the span of McCutchen's career. But pink cards have been around a lot longer than that, and back in the day they weren't nearly as exclusive.   I'm quite familiar with pink cards because the Dodgers were often presented with the color pink on Topps cards. I don't know why Topps attached that color to my team but it was pretty obvious.   But let's go back farther, into the '50s.    Topps' most prominent use of pink came in 1959. The Dodgers weren't the only team to feature pink cards in that set, Topps didn't discriminate with colors in '59. These pink cards, though, are very ...