What a card: This is the first rookie card in the 1985 Topps Traded set. Daryl Boston's rookie season was in 1985. He appeared in 95 games for the White Sox, batting .228.
My observation on the front: It looks like Boston is sleeping standing up.
More opinion from me: There is a certain amount of cool attached to having the last name of a major American city.
Something you might know: Boston is the first base coach for the Chicago White Sox. He recently was involved in an on-field incident during a game against the Blue Jays. Boston uses a whistle to catch the attention of the team's outfielders during workouts, but also uses the whistle when a White Sox player makes a good fielding play. Boston found out that the whistle bothered the Blue Jays' Josh Donaldson, so Boston blew the whistle as Donaldson stepped to the plate during a game on April 3rd. Donaldson responded by hitting a home run and mimicking a whistle-blowing motion as he rounded the bases.
Something you might not know: Boston started wearing glasses after batting just .239 in Double A ball in 1983. He had shed the glasses by the 1990s.
My observation on the back: It really bugs me when "home run" is listed as one word.
The blog wants to speak now: Not today. It's been another long day in a long week.
Why would he have a card in this set? He was never traded.
ReplyDeleteTopps was trying to catch up for the fact they omitted him in their regular set even though Daryl Boston was a highly ranked prospect heading into 1985 and Donruss had already issued a Rated Rookie card of him in their base set. Fleer ended up making a card of him as well in their 1985 Update Set.
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