Topps is putting the wraps on the 2009 baseball card year with a post-season release of its Sterling issue, one that includes a healthy list of cut signatures.
The season has been over for two months but don’t put a ribbon on the 2009 collecting season just yet. Topps Sterling Baseball will be hitting the market shortly.
The company says this year’s version of the high end product will include “ten extra hits” and a guaranteed cut signature per case. Among the cards collectors will be chasing is a sharp-looking Albert Pujols Season Auto Relic.
Topps also released the cut signature checklist on Wednesday, a lengthy list of names that includes a large number of deceased players, athletes from other sports and entertainers.
It includes:
Joe Adcock
Sandy Amoros
Luke Appling
Dave Bancroft
Joe Becker
Mark Belanger
Ray Benge
Don Bessent
Huck Betts
Don Blasingame
Bob Boken
Johnny Callison
Dolph Camilli
Roy Campanella
Adam Comorosky
Tony Conigliaro
Stan Coveleski
Doc Cramer
Hughie Critz
Joe Cronin
Harry Walker
Kiki Cuyler
Jimmie DeShong
Bill Dickey
Larry Doby
Leo Durocher
Woody English
Rick Ferrell
Curt Flood
Pete Fox
Johnny Frederick
Larry French
Frankie Frisch
Carl Furillo
Lefty Gomez
Earl Grace
Charlie Grimm
Chick Hafey
Bill Hallahan
Bert Hamric
Mel Harder
Gabby Hartnett
Billy Herman
Oral Hildebrand
J.Edgar Hoover
Waite Hoyt
Carl Hubbell
Catfish Hunter
Don Hurst
Travis Jackson
Jackie Jensen
Indian Bob Johnson
Buck Jordan
Art Jorgens
Willie Kamm
Joe Kuhel
Bob Lemon
Freddie Lindstrom
Ernie Lombardi
Ted Lyons
Mickey Mantle
Johnny Marcum
Rube Marquard
Billy Martin
Joe McCarthy
Tug McGraw
Joe Medwick
Walt Moryn
Hal Newhouser
Lefty O’Doul
Amos Otis
Homer Peel
Tony Piet
Phil Rizzuto
Red Rolfe
Theodore Roosevelt
Edd Roush
Johnny Babich
Wes Schulmerich
Joe Sewell
Casey Stengel
Joe Stripp
Chuck Templeton
Marv Throneberry
Pie Traynor
Gee Walker
Lloyd Waner
Zack Wheat
Willis Hudlin
Sammy Baugh
Weeb Eubank
Don Hutson
Leo Nomellini
Hank Stram
Emlen Tunnell
Mike Webster
Pete Reiser
Jim Lemon
Sam Chapman
Tex Hughson
Billy Jurges
Max Lanier
Johnny Sain
Birdie Tebbetts
Frank Shellenback
Randy Gumpert
Pee Wee Reese
Freddie Fitzsimmons
Charlie Gehringer
Sibby Sisti
Johnny Unitas
Ford Frick
Red Grange
Bud Podbielan
John McCain
Bronko Nagurski
Nels Potter
William T. Grant
Joseph Henry
Thomas Mann
General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Bill Clinton
Kirby Higbe
Bill Voiselle
Vic Lombardi
Tiny Bonham
Elmer Flick
Fred Hancock
Larry Cox
Jimmy Wasdell
Doc Marshall
Gus Mancuso
Harlond Clift
Zeke Bonura
Jake Early
Charlie Keller
Jack Russell
Major General Clarence Townsley
Ival Goodman
Joe Mulligan
Ed Linke
General John L. Barstow
General Pearson Menoher
General Frank Mahin
Rear Admiral Vincendon Cottman
General Maxwell Murray
Asaph Hall Jr.
George Bushnell
General Russell Putnam
General Eugene Ladd
Edgar Cameron
General John Kingman
General Daniel Van Voorhis
General Andrew Hero Jr.
Sidney Henry
Alexander Clay
Augustus Stanley
General George Pillsbury
General Hamilton Hawkins
General P.D. Lochridge
General Frederick Russell
Eugene Foss
James Ives
General Creed Cox
General Richard Williams
Eugene Hurd
Thomas Mendenhall
General William Cruikshank
General Julius Penn
General Irving Carr
General Frank Scowden
William Osborne
General Clint Hearn
General Alfred Sherwood Cheney
General Frank Parker
Frank Barrett
General Walter Reed
General Wallace DeWitt
General Edward Montgomery
General Charles Danforth
General Albert Myer
General George Read
Admiral Harold Smith
General Carl Reichmann
Bob Milliken
Lyle Alzado
Arthur Ashe
Red Auerbach
Red Barber
Moe Berg
Joey Bishop
Humphrey Bogart
Ray Bolger
Marlon Brando
Bear Bryant
George Burns
Ken Caminiti
Max Carey
Art Carney
Johnny Carson
Johnny Cash
Mickey Cochrane
Eddie Collins
Calvin Coolidge
Bing Crosby
Sammy Davis Jr.
Dizzy Dean
Jack Dempsey
Don Drysdale
Dale Earnhardt Sr.
Thomas Edison
Walter Wilson
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Gerald Ford
Nellie Fox
James Garfield
Warren Giles
Jackie Gleason
Cary Grant
Hank Greenberg
Margaret Hamilton
Gil Hodges
Herbert Hoover
Bob Hope
Elston Howard
Andrew Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Boris Karloff
Robert Kennedy
Darryl Kile
Tom Landry
Rocky Marciano
Dean Martin
Audrey Meadows
Burgess Meredith
Byron Nelson
Richard Nixon
Satchel Paige
Walter Payton
Herb Pennock
Kirby Puckett
Dan Quisenberry
Branch Rickey
John Ritter
Al Simmons
Frank Sinatra
Payne Stewart
William Howard Taft
Jim Thorpe
Harry S Truman
John Tyler
Bill Veeck
Paul Waner
Andy Warhol
Frank Colman
Reggie White
Jesse Haines
Harry Hooper
George Kelly
Al Lopez
Allie Reynolds
Andy Seminick
Augie Galan
Bibb Falk
Bill Baker
Bill Kennedy
Bill McCahan
Bill Terry
Billy Rogell
Bob Muncrief
Bobby Bonds
Brooks Lawrence
Bruce Edwards
Burleigh Grimes
Cal Abrams
Clem Labine
Clete Boyer
Cliff Fannin
Dick Kokos
Dixie Howell
Don White
Early Wynn
Eddie Mayo
Eddie Stanky
Ewell Blackwell
Ferris Fain
Frank Crosetti
George Kell
George McQuinn
Hal Epps
Hank Borowy
Harry Brecheen
Harvey Kuenn
Herb Score
Hoyt Wilhelm
Jack Banta
Jack Hallett
Jim Turner
Joe Black
Joe Hatten
Joe Ostrowski
John Stoneham
Johnny Hopp
Johnny Lindell
Johnny Mize
Johnny Podres
Johnny Vander Meer
Ken Burkhart
Lew Fonseca
Lou Boudreau
Mark Fidrych
Max Surkont
Mickey Owen
Monte Kennedy
Paul Hopkins
Preacher Roe
Ray Dandridge
Ray Lamanno
Ray Shore
Red Embree
Richie Ashburn
Rocky Nelson
Rollie Stiles
Rube Walberg
Thurman Tucker
Tony Cuccinello
Vic Raschi
Whitey Kurowski
Willie Stargell
Zack Taylor
Jack Knott
