Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Topps Yankees Project is complete!

My Topps Yankees Project is complete! I set out to collect a TTM autograph of a different Yankee player on a Topps card from 1951-2011. There are no duplicate players included. All cards are original Topps cards – there are no Topps Archives or modern reprints. Each autograph was acquired by writing a letter to the player in care of their team or home address. A few successes – such as Chuck Knoblauch – are old TTM successes that I had from the late ‘90s.

This isn’t a great picture, but here are all 61 autographed cards. I had many other TTM successes along the way, but this project was always front and center of my TTM focus. In the next few posts, I’ll go decade-by-decade so that every card can be seen in greater detail.



Here my the checklist:

1951 - Jerry Coleman
1952 - Charlie Silvera
1953 - Irv Noren
1954 - Bob Kuzava
1955 - Steve Kraley
1956 - Bob Turley
1957 - Bobby Shantz
1958 - Gil McDougald
1959 - Virgil Trucks
1960 - Art Ditmar
1961 - Joe DeMaestri
1962 - Bobby Richardson
1963 - Hector Lopez
1964 - Bud Daley
1965 - Phil Linz
1966 - Al Downing
1967 - Dooley Womack
1968 - Mike Hegan
1969 - Jake Gibbs
1970 - Jerry Kenney
1971 - Ron Klimkwoski
1972 - Mel Stottlemyre
1973 - Fritz Peterson
1974 - Roy White
1975 - Ron Blomberg
1976 - Ed Herrmann
1977 - Chris Chambliss
1978 - Fred Stanley
1979 - Cliff Johnson
1980 - Jim Beattie
1981 - Greg Nettles
1982 - Bob Watson
1983 - Goose Gossage
1984 - Bert Campaneris
1985 - Clay Christiansen
1986 - Don Baylor
1987 - Bobby Meacham
1988 - Rick Cerone
1989 - Dave Eiland
1990 - Steve Balboni
1991 - Randy Velarde
1992 - Roberto Kelly
1993 - Andy Stankiewicz
1994 - Lee Smith
1995 - Scott Kamieniecki
1996 - Jimmy Key
1997 - Mariano Duncan
1998 - Joe Girardi
1999 - Chuck Knoblauch
2000 - Chili Davis
2001 - Clay Bellinger
2002 - Scott Brosius
2003 - Steve Karsay
2004 - Chris Hammond
2005 - Tony Womack
2006 - Kevin Thompson
2007 - Scott Proctor
2008 - Kei Igawa
2009 - Phil Coke
2010 - Michael Dunn
2011 - Mariano Rivera

16 comments:

  1. I gotta say, that's awesome! Oh, wait, that's already been said. That's effing awesome! There! An amazing collection, to say the least.

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  2. Congratulations on an incredible accomplishment! Those are really nice.

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  3. Congrats AJ. There are not enough instances in collecting where we can say challenge completed. But now you can. I look forward to reading about these in more detail.

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  4. Damn, you got Mariano to sign? That itself is a feat of great accomplishment! Awesome set!

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  5. Fantastic, look forward to reading more posts about these cards!!

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  6. This is really an incredible accomplishment. Very impressed. Now what's next on the list?! -Andy

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  7. That's friggin awesome!!! Congrats on completing your goal. Hopefully I can do something as sweet as that one day. Look forward to hearing more.

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  8. There is nothing like a goal reached and that is one incredible goal! Congrats.

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  9. Awesome A.J., congrats on completing it!

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  10. That is impressive. It must feel pretty awesome to complete that. No duplicate players either, wow! Congrats on that project.

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  11. Damn, that's pretty awesome! Congrats dude!

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  12. very nice. i doubt i will get there with the dodgers

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