⚾ Vintage Graded 2024 Topps Jasson Domínguez #CTC7 City to City Rookie RC Baseball Card PSA 10 Gem Mint – The 2024 Topps City to City Rookie Card of the New York Yankees' Most Celebrated International Signing, the Player the Scouting World Nicknamed “The Martian” Before He Had Played a Single Professional Game, Graded PSA 10 GEM MINT by Professional Sports Authenticator on a Rookie Card From One of the Most Anticipated Arrival Stories in Recent Yankees History

⚾ San Pedro de Macorís is a city on the southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic that the baseball world has recognized for decades as one of the most consistently productive environments for developing major league talent the sport has ever seen. From that one coastal city, the professional game has received generations of players who built careers at the highest level, and the scouts and evaluators who travel the Dominican Republic looking for the next wave of major league talent have always placed San Pedro de Macorís at the center of the map. The city produced players across generations who brought their particular combination of athleticism, competitive instinct, and baseball skill to the professional stage, and it is within that tradition – one of the most storied baseball traditions outside the United States – that Jasson Domínguez developed the physical tools and the swing that made the New York Yankees willing to commit one of the largest international signing bonuses in the history of their program to bring him into the organization before he had played a professional inning.

⚾ Jasson Domínguez was born February 7, 2003, in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, and the New York Yankees signed him on July 2, 2019 – the opening day of the international signing period – for a bonus of approximately $5.1 million, a number that reflected the organization's assessment of a 16-year-old whose tools the evaluators who watched him reached for unusual language to describe. The nickname that the scouting community attached to him – “The Martian” – captured the consensus that his combination of contact ability, power potential, speed, arm strength, and defensive versatility across multiple positions was unlike anything the Dominican pipeline had recently produced in the same package at the same age. When a player's tools push scouts toward extraterrestrial comparisons before he has played his first professional game, the collecting community takes notice, and Domínguez became one of the most watched prospects in the Yankees system from the moment the ink dried on his signing.

⚾ Domínguez moved through the Yankees minor league system building on the promise that the $5.1 million bonus reflected, developing as an outfielder while maintaining the offensive potential that the scouting reports had described. He made his Major League Baseball debut with the New York Yankees in September 2023, arriving on a roster at the most recognizable stadium address in American sports and performing in the pinstripes that have represented championship expectations in the Bronx for a century. The 2024 Topps City to City subset captured him on his Rookie Card in a format that documented his arrival as one of the most anticipated young players the Yankees had introduced to their lineup, and the “CTC7” designation in the City to City series placed his Rookie Card in the product alongside some of the most significant names in the game.

🏅 PSA 10 GEM MINT is the highest grade Professional Sports Authenticator issues – the designation that marks a card as displaying no defects visible under professional examination, with four sharp corners, centered printing, and a surface free of scratches, print lines, or any condition issue. On a 2024 Topps card, PSA 10 represents the condition ceiling the grading market uses to identify the best-surviving examples of any given card, and a GEM MINT grade on a Domínguez Rookie Card positions this piece at the top of the condition hierarchy for one of the most anticipated prospect arrivals in recent Yankees history. Condition: NOS.

⚾ Jasson Domínguez. San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic. New York Yankees. “The Martian.” 2024 Topps City to City #CTC7 Rookie RC. PSA 10 GEM MINT. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.