Ted Talk: 1950s style
Many consider Ted Williams if not at the top, at least among the Top 5 hitters in MLB history. From his debut in a Topps set in 1954 through 1958 the booming-voiced Boston player with the bountiful bat appeared among the Top 5 card slots in each main Topps baseball offering. In 1954, Williams comprised the issue’s bookends.
By 1959, Topps collectors likely figured “The Splendid Splinter” would soon pop up in one of those circle frames on the current card fronts. But the student of hitting never appeared in the set. Instead, that season the Fleer Company delivered an entire 80-card collection all about the legendary hitter,
