'59 Topps Friday Cards 245-252: Baseball Families with Ray Boone, Clete Boyer, Bobby Adams and More!

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 245 to 252 in the set. This week, we look at several prominent baseball families include those of Ray Boone, Clete Boyer and Bobby Adams. Plus, we cover the Boston Red Sox team checklist and explain why Ted Williams does not have his own player card in the 1959 Topps set.
Today's episode was written by Abby and Jake T. O'Donnell.
Do you have a story about one of these people, teams or players to share? Let us know in the comments!
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Here is our source material for today's episode:
Boston Red Sox
www.baseball-reference.com/pl...
www.baseball-reference.com/te...
www.baseball-reference.com/te...
www.baseball-reference.com/te...
Clete Boyer
www.baseball-reference.com/pl...
sabr.org/bioproj/person/Clete...
Ray Boone
sabr.org/bioproj/person/ray-b...
www.baseball-reference.com/pl...
Other sources: Canadian Baseball News, The Palm Beach Post, the Don Ferrarese Foundation, Daily Press, The Deadball Era, The Tacoma News Tribune

[@cloudsey420sufccards]

Awesome cards bud. 👍 Thanks for sharing. Have a good weekend!

[@WaxPackWisdom]

Thanks!

[@mikesbaseballcards]

Really nice to hear sbout these player bios

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@@mikesbaseballcards Glad you enjoyed it

[@peterb4871]

Very good

[@WaxPackWisdom]

Thanks!

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

Card collecting ended as a fun kids thing when men, then kids, put the cards in those plastic binders instead of shoeboxes where they belonged. Yeah, I'm old. I think Baby Boomers started the perpetual childhood thing: I can't imagine any dad of my youth doing anything with his cards other than giving them to his kids. Different times. I had a middle school English teacher who proudly told me that she went to grade and high school with Jackie Jenson. He had a phobia of flying and it kind of ended his career.