My Yankee autographs!

[mrmopar]

Been a while since I commented, but watching the progress. I enjoy the pureness of a team autograph collector who doesn't necessarily care about value. It's all about crossing a name off the list.

I have slowed way down on mine for older Brooklyn players, since I am mostly looking for 30s and back and a lot of toughies as well, or just trying to find anything of the plethora of new pitchers the Dodgers roll out each season now days to keep the LA wantlist as low as possible!

 

[Philip J. Fry]

#1384
Purchased.
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That’s awesome, I bought this same card and it arrived the other day. Corners weren’t as sharp, but it’s PC anyway.

 

[dano7]

#1405-1413
All purchased and arrived in the past week, except Lalane, who was pulled:

 

[dano7]

#1414 & 1415
Last two I have purchased, for now.

 

[dano7]

Though I had all of these guys already, it was still very exciting to pull these from a Leaf Metal Jumbo box today!
2024 Leaf Yankees George Lombard,Jr. 1/1 (E) Proof



2024 Leaf Yankees Arias/Jones/Lombard 21/35

 

[dano7]

Currently at 1427 different Yankee players' autographs
Already had a Jeff Nelson, but not this one!
Part of my contest win from

joey12508​

 

[dano7]

Already had an Arias, but pulled a 1/1 from a box today.

2024 Leaf 2024 Roderick Arias auto 1/1

 

[dano7]

#1428
Box pulled this morning!!!!

2024 Leaf RW&B 2024 Caleb Durbin auto 1/2

 

[mrmopar]

1500 is right around the corner!

A few years ago, I made an excel list of all of the Dodgers players, coaches, managers, high level executives (President/GM), owners and anyone else although this grouping is not comprehensive (announcers, scouts, various staff, etc) that I felt belonged on the list as a means of keeping track. I update it each year by tracking new debuts and trades. I feel it is as complete as possible, but there could still be an omission or two. I did this all manually from internet sites that listed players, so even those could have had mistakes. To be clear, if a player didn't play a game with the MLB Dodgers team, then he is not counted, so all of the prospect cards that have been issued since the 90s are not on the list if they never cracks the bigs with the Dodgers. I also track awards (career, not just while with Dodgers), time with the team, year of death and age and if they played/worked for LA or Brooklyn or both. Here is a snip:


The list currently stands at 2115 names.

I have not gotten to the point of organization where I have actually recorded who I have and don't have though, so not sure where I stand with a grand total count. I do have a running checklist of LA Dodgers though. Given the Yankees similar history, I am guessing you probably have somewhere in the same neighborhood of possible names if you were to do the same thing.

 

[dano7]

1500 is right around the corner!

A few years ago, I made an excel list of all of the Dodgers players, coaches, managers, high level executives (President/GM), owners and anyone else although this grouping is not comprehensive (announcers, scouts, various staff, etc) that I felt belonged on the list as a means of keeping track. I update it each year by tracking new debuts and trades. I feel it is as complete as possible, but there could still be an omission or two. I did this all manually from internet sites that listed players, so even those could have had mistakes. To be clear, if a player didn't play a game with the MLB Dodgers team, then he is not counted, so all of the prospect cards that have been issued since the 90s are not on the list if they never cracks the bigs with the Dodgers. I also track awards (career, not just while with Dodgers), time with the team, year of death and age and if they played/worked for LA or Brooklyn or both. Here is a snip:
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The list currently stands at 2115 names.

I have not gotten to the point of organization where I have actually recorded who I have and don't have though, so not sure where I stand with a grand total count. I do have a running checklist of LA Dodgers though. Given the Yankees similar history, I am guessing you probably have somewhere in the same neighborhood of possible names if you were to do the same thing.

I have an alphabetized spreadsheet of the players that I have. Anyone who has been in the Yankees' system is fair game. I sometimes will zero in on a particular year to see who I might need. I have everyone on the 1961 team. Like you, most of my needs are the 40's and earlier, which can be very expensive.

 

[dano7]

Already had a certified copy, but love adding a TTM
Matt Drews on a 1995 Best card, signed in blue sharpie, sent to his home on 9/21/23.
4814 Vasca Dr. Sarasota, FL 34240

 

[dano7]

Have this gentleman many times, but realized that I didn't have him on a 1961 Post card!

 

[Therion]

Shantz is a TTM Hall of Famer, for sure.