{"title":"Bartolo Colon Signed New York Jerseys","description":"\u003cp\u003eBartolo Colon spent parts of his long pitching career with the New York Mets and New York Yankees, and his time in New York, including his memorable run with the Mets, made him a fan favorite known affectionately as \"Big Sexy.\" Collectors look for his signed New York jerseys as a way to hold onto that era of his career.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection features autographed Bartolo Colon jerseys in both Mets blue and pinstripe styles, including versions inscribed \"Big Sexy.\" Several pieces are available framed in a 35x39 display, ready to hang, while others are offered as the signed jersey alone. Every item includes a Beckett BAS certificate of authenticity, so buyers should check the COA details and framing style before choosing between the blue and pinstripe options.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"autographed-signed-bartolo-colon-new-york-blue-baseball-jersey-beckett-bas-coa","title":"Autographed\/Signed Bartolo Colon New York Mets Blue Baseball Jersey Beckett BAS COA","description":"\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003eBartolo Colon New York Mets Autographed\/Signed Blue Baseball Jersey — Beckett BAS COA — Altamira, Dominican Republic — 2005 AL Cy Young Award Winner — 'Big Sexy' — 247 Career Wins — Legendary Longevity — Fan Favorite of a Generation — New York Mets Fan Gift\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ There are players who accumulate statistics. There are players who win awards. And then there are players who become something beyond both — beloved figures in the sport whose personality, career longevity, and memorable moments transcend the box score and become part of the culture of baseball itself. Bartolo Colon is that player. 'Big Sexy' — the nickname that Mets fans created during his time in New York and that the broader baseball world adopted — is as much a description of his place in the sport's heart as it is a description of the man himself: lovable, brilliant in his own way, and capable of producing joy on any given baseball afternoon. This autographed New York Mets blue jersey, hand-signed by Colon himself and authenticated by Beckett Authentication Services with a full Certificate of Authenticity, is a piece of that legacy. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 \u003cstrong\u003eAltamira, Dominican Republic — The Origin of Big Sexy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBartolo Colon was born on May 24, 1973, in Altamira, in the Montícristi Province of the Dominican Republic — a region whose baseball culture has been producing major league talent for decades, and whose contribution to the sport includes some of the most colorful and accomplished careers in modern baseball history. Colon's development in the Dominican Republic and his signing as an international prospect led to a major league debut with the Cleveland Indians in 1997 — the beginning of a career that would stretch over twenty seasons in professional baseball. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 \u003cstrong\u003e2005 AL Cy Young Award — The Peak of a Hall-of-Fame Caliber Career\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2005, pitching for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Bartolo Colon won the American League Cy Young Award — the highest individual honor a starting pitcher can receive in Major League Baseball. His 21-8 record and 3.48 ERA across 222 innings represented the best single-season performance in the AL that year, and it remains the signature achievement of a career built on deception, movement, command, and the kind of competitive intelligence that cannot be taught. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ \u003cstrong\u003eBig Sexy in New York — The Mets Era and the 2016 Home Run\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Bartolo Colon joined the New York Mets in 2014, he arrived in the city that would make him a legend. His seasons in a Mets uniform — pitching effectively well into his 40s, generating the kind of fan devotion that comes from a personality as large as his physique — produced one of baseball's most celebrated moments: the 2016 home run, hit at age 42, that sent Citi Field into absolute pandemonium and circled the internet immediately. A signed Mets blue jersey carries all of that: the Cy Young winner, the 247-game winner, Big Sexy in his natural habitat. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏅 \u003cstrong\u003eBeckett Authentication Services — The Gold Standard for Autograph Verification\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Bartolo Colon signed jersey carries a Beckett Authentication Services (BAS) Certificate of Authenticity — the recognized industry standard for sports autograph verification. Beckett's process provides the chain-of-custody documentation that collectors, auction houses, and galleries use to establish the legitimacy of a signed piece. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾🌟 Bartolo Colon. Altamira, Dominican Republic. Cleveland Indians. Angels. Yankees. Mets. 2005 AL Cy Young. 247 wins. Big Sexy. The 2016 home run. Hand-signed New York Mets blue jersey. Beckett BAS COA. Twenty years of joy in one signature. 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Beckett Authentication Services, whose name represents the gold standard of sports autograph verification, has certified the signature, providing the registered documentation that collectors, investors, and institutions require for pieces at this level of significance. Whether this hangs in a sports bar, a home theater, a Mets fan cave, or an institutional collection, the Bartolo Colon story it tells is one of the most distinctly joyful chapters in professional baseball's recent history. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 \u003cstrong\u003eAltamira, Dominican Republic — Where One of Baseball's Greatest Careers Began\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 Bartolo Colon was born on May 24, 1973, in Altamira — a municipality in the Montecristi province in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic, a nation whose contribution to Major League Baseball's talent pipeline is unmatched in the history of international player development. Colon signed with the Cleveland Indians as an international free agent and made his Major League debut on April 4, 1997, at age 23 — the start of a journey that would take him to eleven different organizations and keep him pitching at the highest level of professional baseball until 2018, at age 44. The Dominican Republic produced the foundation of Colon's game: a natural arm, the competitive instinct, and the love of the sport that carries a player through the physical wear of a twenty-one-year professional career. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 \u003cstrong\u003eCleveland Indians — Building the Foundation of an Elite Career\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 Bartolo Colon's years with the Cleveland Indians (1997–2002) established him as one of the most dominant right-handed starters in the American League — a power pitcher whose high-90s fastball and developing command produced consistent strikeout production and the innings totals that rotation pitchers are valued for. He was a two-time All-Star during his Cleveland tenure and pitched in the 1999 and 2001 American League Division Series, gaining postseason experience at the peak of his physical prime. A 2002 trade to the Montreal Expos midseason marked the beginning of a period of organizational movement, and Colon signed with the Anaheim Angels for the 2004 season — the franchise where his career reached its highest individual peak the following year. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ \u003cstrong\u003e2005 — The Anaheim Angels and the American League Cy Young Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ The 2005 American League Cy Young Award is the pinnacle of Bartolo Colon's career as a professional achievement — the honor given annually to the single best pitcher in each league as voted by Baseball Writers' Association members. Colon earned it by going 21–8 with a 3.48 ERA across 222.2 innings for the Anaheim Angels, leading the American League in wins and demonstrating the combination of stamina, consistency, and dominance that defines a Cy Young–caliber season. His 21 wins were the most in the American League that year. The Cy Young Award is the highest individual honor a pitcher can receive. Bartolo Colon won it at age 32, from Altamira, Dominican Republic. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 \u003cstrong\u003eNew York Mets — The Fan Base That Claimed Him Completely\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 After elbow reconstruction surgery temporarily sidelined him, Bartolo Colon demonstrated the comeback determination that became a second defining chapter of his career — returning to pitch effectively for the Oakland Athletics, the New York Yankees, and finally the New York Mets beginning in 2014. His three seasons with the Mets (2014–2016) placed him in front of one of baseball's most emotionally expressive fan bases at Citi Field in Flushing, Queens, where his advanced age, his exuberant personality, and his continued pitching effectiveness generated a connection with Mets fans that transcended his statistical production. He earned his fourth career All-Star selection in 2016, his final Mets season, at age 43 — one of the most improbable late-career honors the sport has produced. He was one of the most beloved figures in the Mets clubhouse during a period when the franchise returned to the World Series for the first time since 2000. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003eMay 7, 2016 — The Home Run at Petco Park\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ On May 7, 2016, at Petco Park in San Diego, Bartolo Colon stepped to the plate against Padres starter James Shields in the second inning. Colon was 42 years old, in roughly his 226th career Major League at-bat, with zero home runs to his name across his entire career to that point. He was a pitcher at the plate — the conventional automatic out. Shields delivered. Colon swung. The ball cleared the left field fence for a two-run home run — Bartolo Colon's first career Major League home run, making him the oldest player in MLB history to hit his first home run. The deliberate trot around the bases, the dugout eruption, the disbelief visible on every face in San Diego — it became one of the most joyful single moments in recent baseball history. When the clip played on the Citi Field scoreboard that evening, tens of thousands of Mets fans roared as though the team had just won the pennant. The video became one of the most shared baseball clips in social media history. It remains, for a very large portion of the baseball-watching world, the best moment of the 2016 season. The Mets blue jersey in this listing is the uniform of the man who delivered it. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ \u003cstrong\u003eBeckett BAS COA — Third-Party Authentication That Commands Market Confidence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ Beckett Authentication Services is, alongside PSA\/DNA, the most widely recognized and market-trusted sports autograph authentication organization in the world. A Beckett BAS COA means the signature was physically examined by Beckett authentication experts, compared against known authentic Colon exemplars, and certified with a unique registration number that permanently documents this specific piece in the Beckett registry. The BAS COA is what allows this framed Mets blue jersey to be resold, donated, displayed, or transferred with full confidence in the chain of authentication documentation — and it is the standard that auction houses, galleries, and institutional collectors require for autographed sports memorabilia at this level of significance. The framing provides immediate display-ready condition. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾🌟 Bartolo Colon. Altamira, Dominican Republic. Cleveland Indians. 2005 American League Cy Young Award. 247 career wins. New York Mets 2014–2016, 4x All-Star. May 7, 2016 — the home run. Mets blue jersey, personally signed, Beckett BAS COA, framed. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48039475904744,"sku":"FJ-BARTOLOCOLON-NYM-BLUE-BAS","price":424.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/framed-autographed-signed-bartolo-colon-35x39-new-york-blue-baseball-jersey-beckett-bas-109.webp?v=1770198611"},{"product_id":"framed-autographed-signed-bartolo-colon-35x39-new-york-pinstripe-baseball-jersey-beckett-bas-coa","title":"Framed Autographed\/Signed Bartolo Colon 35x39 New York Pinstripe Baseball Jersey Beckett BAS COA","description":"\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003eFramed Autographed Bartolo Colon New York Pinstripe Baseball Jersey — Beckett BAS Certified — A Signed Display Piece From One of Baseball's Most Beloved Characters, the Immortal \"Big Sexy,\" 2005 American League Cy Young Award Winner and a 20-Year Major League Career That Defied Every Expectation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ There is a category of athlete that goes beyond statistical achievement and becomes something rarer — a personality so distinctive, a career so unlikely, a story so completely itself that the person becomes part of the culture of the sport in a way that pure excellence alone cannot produce. Bartolo Colon earned that status through two decades of Major League Baseball that produced moments nobody could have scripted, a physical presence that challenged every assumption about what a professional pitcher needs to look like, and a consistency of performance at the highest level of the game that makes the career numbers both improbable and undeniable simultaneously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ He was born in Altamira, in the Montecristi Province of the Dominican Republic, in 1973 — part of the wave of Dominican baseball talent that began making its mark on Major League Baseball in the decades following the sport's expansion into Caribbean scouting. He signed as an amateur free agent without the benefit of the major scouting infrastructure that now identifies Dominican players at the youngest ages, which means that what he built in professional baseball was built from a foundation of pure talent and a work ethic directed toward maximizing that talent across a career whose length eventually became one of its most remarkable features.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ He won the 2005 American League Cy Young Award as a member of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim — a season in which his command of a fastball that somehow retained its effectiveness well past the point where most pitchers' velocity had declined established him as the best pitcher in the American League. He went 21-8 with a 3.48 ERA. He was 32 years old. What nobody could have predicted was that this was not the end of anything — it was a midpoint in a career that still had over a decade of Major League service ahead of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ He pitched for the Cleveland Indians, the Montreal Expos, the Chicago White Sox, the Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees, the Los Angeles Angels, the Oakland Athletics, the New York Mets, the Atlanta Braves, the Minnesota Twins, and the Texas Rangers — a roster of organizations that spans both leagues and every region of the country, each of which signed a pitcher who was supposedly past his prime and each of which received professional value in return. His effectiveness in the final years of his career was built almost entirely on fastball command — a pitch that he had thrown enough times to place it with the precision of a surgeon, in spots that younger pitchers with harder fastballs could not find consistently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ In 2016, pitching for the New York Mets at the age of 43, Bartolo Colon hit the first home run of his Major League career — a two-run shot that produced one of the most genuinely joyful moments of that baseball season, the entire country simultaneously erupting at the sight of a man who had never previously hit a home run in 19 seasons of trying clearing the wall with a swing that was as unlikely as the career that preceded it. The video went everywhere. The nickname \"Big Sexy\" — given with the genuine affection that a player earns when teammates and fans understand they are in the presence of someone truly one-of-a-kind — became the universal shorthand for everything that made watching him play the game worth the price of admission.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ The New York pinstripe jersey connects Colon to one of his MLB chapters — the home whites of a New York team that carry the weight and tradition of the pinstripe pattern that makes the jersey identifiable at a glance. The Beckett BAS certification provides independent authentication from one of the sport's most recognized authentication services.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003eAuthentication \u0026amp; Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e📋 Framed Autographed Bartolo Colon New York Pinstripe Baseball Jersey. Beckett Authentication Services BAS COA. Framed Display 35x39. 2005 AL Cy Young Award Winner. 247 Career Wins. Dominican Republic. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. 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That kind of longevity, in a position as physically demanding as starting pitcher, reflects a singular combination of adaptability, preparation, and craft. He reinvented his approach multiple times over his career as his velocity evolved but his command, sinker movement, and baseball IQ deepened. His time in New York with the Yankees, which included seasons in 2011, 2012, and 2013, put him in the pinstripes he's wearing on this jersey – a team and a city that brings its own weight to any signature. This signed New York Yankees pinstripe jersey, authenticated by Beckett Authentication Services with a BAS certificate of authenticity, connects to one chapter in one of the more remarkable careers of the modern game. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ A BAS COA from Beckett Authentication Services confirms the signature on this Bartolo Colon Yankees pinstripe jersey against their verified reference records – one of the most recognized autograph authentication names in the hobby. For Yankees collectors, fans of the durable starters who defined the rotation era of the late 1990s and 2000s, and admirers of one of baseball's most enduring personalities, this signed pinstripe jersey is a legitimate piece of modern baseball history. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Bartolo Colon. New York Yankees. Pinstripe Baseball Jersey. Autographed. Beckett BAS COA. 2005 AL Cy Young Award. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Autographed\/Signed Bartolo Colon New York Pinstripe Baseball Jersey Beckett BAS COA. Hall of Fame Sports. 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