{"product_id":"graded-2022-topps-bowmans-best-cal-raleigh-6-rookie-rc-baseball-card-psa-10-gem-mint","title":"Graded 2022 Topps Bowmans Best Cal Raleigh #6 Rookie RC Baseball Card PSA 10 Gem Mint","description":"\u003cp\u003e⚾ \u003cstrong\u003eGraded 2022 Topps Bowman's Best Cal Raleigh #6 Rookie RC Baseball Card PSA 10 Gem Mint – The Highest Available Grade on the 2022 Topps Bowman's Best Rookie Card for Cal Raleigh, the Seattle Mariners Catcher Nicknamed “Big Dumper” Who Hit the Walk-Off Home Run on September 30, 2022 That Ended the Seattle Mariners' 21-Year Playoff Drought – the Longest Active Drought in North American Major Professional Sports at the Time – in One of the Most Emotionally Significant Single Moments in the Franchise's History, Certified PSA 10 Gem Mint by Professional Sports Authenticator, From the Hall of Fame Sports Collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ September 30, 2022. T-Mobile Park. The Seattle Mariners had not been to the playoffs since 2001 – twenty-one years, a franchise and a city waiting, watching other teams' Octobers, for more than two decades. Baseball's longest active playoff drought. The Mariners had teams with remarkable individual talents over those years, with seasons that flickered before falling back. And then Cal Raleigh came to the plate in the ninth inning and hit a solo home run that ended all of it. One swing. Twenty-one years, ended in a moment that the Pacific Northwest had waited most of a generation to see. 🌟\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ T-Mobile Park erupted. The broadcast captured it. The city felt it. The moment is part of what Seattle means as a baseball town now – the night that the drought ended, the name of the player who ended it, and the memory of the ball leaving the yard in the ninth inning of a game that the Mariners had to win to clinch. Cal Raleigh became part of the franchise's mythology in that swing, the catcher who delivered the moment that the fanbase had been waiting for through the entire twenty-first century to that point. 🌟\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ “Big Dumper” is the nickname that the Mariners faithful gave him, and it became something more than a nickname in the days after September 30, 2022 – it became a symbol of the player who was exactly what the franchise needed and who proved it at the exact moment the season demanded. Topps Bowman's Best is a premium tier in the Topps product lineup, distinct from standard Bowman Chrome in its production values and its collector positioning. The Raleigh RC in Bowman's Best in PSA 10 is the premium certified version of the first licensed card of a catcher who already has one of the most significant moments in Mariners history attached to his name. ⭐\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Centering exact. Corners sharp. Surface unmarked. Edges clean. PSA 10 Gem Mint confirmed. The Big Dumper walk-off RC. 🏆\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Cal Raleigh. Seattle Mariners. Catcher. Big Dumper. Walk-Off Home Run September 30 2022. Ended 21-Year Mariners Playoff Drought. Longest Active North American Professional Sports Drought Ended. T-Mobile Park Historic Moment. 2022 Topps Bowman's Best #6. Rookie RC. PSA 10 Gem Mint. Professional Sports Authenticator. Seattle Baseball History. Sports Memorabilia. Hall of Fame Sports. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e⚾ Graded 2022 Topps Bowman's Best Cal Raleigh #6 Rookie RC Baseball Card PSA 10 Gem Mint. Hall of Fame Sports. Condition: NOS.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48097188511976,"sku":"2022-TBB-CR-6-PSA-10","price":238.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/graded-2022-topps-bowmans-best-cal-raleigh-6-rookie-rc-baseball-card-psa-10-gem-mint-928.webp?v=1772813565","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/graded-2022-topps-bowmans-best-cal-raleigh-6-rookie-rc-baseball-card-psa-10-gem-mint","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}