{"product_id":"graded-2014-topps-bowman-draft-picks-aaron-judge-ctp39-top-pros-chrome-rookie-rc-baseball-card-psa-10-gem-mint","title":"Graded PSA 10 Gem Mint Aaron Judge 2014 Topps Bowman Draft #CTP39 Top Pros Chrome Rookie RC Baseball Card","description":"\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003eAaron Judge 2014 Topps Bowman Draft #CTP39 Top Pros Chrome Rookie RC PSA 10 GEM MINT — New York Yankees Right Fielder — Linden, California — Fresno State University — 2013 1st Round Pick (32nd Overall) — 2022 AL MVP — 62 Home Runs in a Single Season — Yankees Captain — PSA 10 GEM MINT Certified\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ A PSA 10 GEM MINT certified Aaron Judge 2014 Topps Bowman Draft #CTP39 Top Pros Chrome rookie card — from the 2014 Topps Bowman Draft product's Top Pros Chrome insert, a subset that highlights the top-graded professional prospects in the draft class using the chromium surface technology that makes Bowman Chrome the standard format for prospect collector documentation. Card CTP39 in the Top Pros Chrome series. Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees right fielder who became the most physically imposing position player in Major League Baseball and whose 2022 season produced the most significant single-season home run total in American League history, is captured here before his first professional pitch had been seen in the major leagues. PSA 10 GEM MINT: the maximum grade. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🌟 \u003cstrong\u003eLinden, California — San Joaquin County — Central Valley — Fresno State University — The Physically Unprecedented Outfielder\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAaron Judge was born April 26, 1992, in Linden, California — a small agricultural community in San Joaquin County in the Central Valley, the flat and fertile growing region of the state where the almonds and tomatoes and grapes that California exports to the world are grown, and where the small-town baseball culture that has produced California's major league players for over a century continues to develop athletes in Little League and high school programs. He attended Fresno State University as a Bulldog, playing for the university in the San Joaquin Valley Conference before the New York Yankees selected him in the first round (32nd overall) of the 2013 MLB Draft — the pick that brought the 6'7'', 282-pound outfielder into the Yankees prospect pipeline. At 6'7'', Aaron Judge was physically larger than any outfielder the Yankees had previously developed, and the question scouts faced in evaluating him was whether the size that made him historically unusual would be an asset or a liability at the major league level. It proved to be the former. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⭐ \u003cstrong\u003eNew York Yankees — The 2017 AL Rookie of the Year — The Home Run Derby — The Record-Breaking 2022 Season\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAaron Judge's 2017 season was one of the most electric debut seasons for any player in recent MLB history: he hit 52 home runs, won the AL Rookie of the Year Award, and won the Home Run Derby at Marlins Park in Miami in a display of raw power that made the event's all-time record books. The 52 rookie home runs set the AL Rookie of the Year home run standard. But the 2017 season was a preview of what 2022 produced: 62 home runs, breaking Roger Maris's American League single-season home run record of 61 that had stood since 1961 — a record that had been the most sacred number in the American League for 61 years, the number that Roger Maris had set in the same Yankee Stadium atmosphere, in the same city, in the most storied franchise in baseball history. Sixty-two. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e🏆 \u003cstrong\u003e2022 AL MVP — 62 Home Runs — Yankees Captain — The Legacy in Progress\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAaron Judge was unanimously named the 2022 American League MVP after the 62-home run season, a vote that required no deliberation. The Yankees named him team captain — only the second Yankee to hold the title since Derek Jeter — in December 2022, acknowledging that his leadership role within the organization had elevated beyond what the on-field production alone communicated. The 2014 Topps Bowman Draft #CTP39 Top Pros Chrome PSA 10 GEM MINT is the maximum-grade certified chrome prospect document of the Linden, California product before the first of those 62 home runs had been hit — the beginning chapter of the career that would break Roger Maris's American League record six decades after it was set. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e📦 \u003cstrong\u003eItem Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eItem: Aaron Judge 2014 Topps Bowman Draft Top Pros Chrome Rookie RC #CTP39. Grade: PSA 10 GEM MINT (Professional Sports Authenticator). Player: Aaron Judge. Born: April 26, 1992, Linden, California. College: Fresno State University Bulldogs. MLB Draft: 2013, 1st round (32nd overall), New York Yankees. Career: 2017 AL Rookie of the Year; 2022 AL MVP; 62 HR (2022, AL record); Yankees captain. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾⭐ Linden. California. San Joaquin County. The Central Valley. The almond groves. Fresno State. The Bulldogs. 2013. The Yankees. The draft. Round one. Pick 32. 6'7''. 282 pounds. The biggest outfielder anyone had seen. 2017. 52 home runs. The Home Run Derby. AL Rookie of the Year. 2022. 62. Roger Maris. 61 years. The record broken. Unanimous MVP. The captain. Only the second since Jeter. The Bowman Draft card. CTP39. Top Pros Chrome. 2014. Before any of it happened. PSA 10. GEM MINT. 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