Yankees to Retire Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte Numbers and are the focus of Hump Day Hits

Monument Park has always been a hallowed place in Yankee Stadium. The greats that have worn Pinstripes are honored there, so are the numbers that have been retired. As of this date, 17 numbers will never be worn by another Yankee player. By the end of this season it will be 20.

On different dates throughout the season Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada and Andy Pettitte will be honored with a day dedicated to them during which their numbers will be retired. To honor them now, we will look at some of their on-card autographs in this installment of Hump Day Hits.

Micro Collecting Mark Messier Autographs And New York Rangers With Retired Numbers

This is the fourth of eight posts where I’ll detailed for you one of my latests adventures in the hobby, Micro Collecting certified on-card autographs of all of the New York Rangers with Retired numbers. There are eight players and they are Eddie Giacomin, Brain Leetch, Harry Howell, Rod Gilbert, Andy Bathgate, Adam Graves, Mark Messier, and Mike Richter. 

Totday we will take a look at Mark Messier, number 11.

Micro Collecting Mike Richter And New York Rangers With Retired Numbers Autographs

This is the third of eight posts where I’ll detailed for you one of my latests adventures in the hobby, Micro Collecting certified on-card autographs of all of the New York Rangers with Retired numbers. There are eight players and they are Eddie Giacomin, Brain Leetch, Harry Howell, Rod Gilbert, Andy Bathgate, Adam Graves, Mark Messier, and Mike Richter. 

Totday we will take a look at Mike Richter, Number 35.

Micro Collecting Eddie Giacomin And New York Rangers With Retired Numbers Autographs

This is the second of eight posts where I’ll detailed for you one of my latests adventures in the hobby, Micro Collecting certified on-card autographs of all of the New York Rangers with Retired numbers. There are eight players and they are Eddie Giacomin, Brain Leetch, Harry Howell, Rod Gilbert, Andy Bathgate, Adam Graves, Mark Messier, and Mike Richter. 

Totday we will take a look at Eddie Giacomin, number 1.

Micro Collecting Rod Gilbert And New York Rangers With Retired Numbers Autographs

I detailed for you one of my current adventures in the hobby, finding smaller collecting projects to tackle. I referred to it as Micro Collecting in a post just before the New Year. 

The project I first presented was all of the New York Rangers with retired numbers. In this case that’s eight players, Eddie Giacomin, Brain Leetch, Harry Howell, Rod Gilbert, Andy Bathgate, Adam Graves, Mark Messier, and Mike Richter. My favorite cards to collect are certified on-card autographs and luckily all of these players have very nice choices available. 

Now, over eight posts, I’ll detail each player, include some of their biography and the thing we all care about the most, their cards. I’ll explain what was available and why I choose the card that ended up in my collection

Today I’ll start with the first Ranger to has his number retired, #7, Rod Gilbert.

The Joy Of Micro Collecting

When I was younger my collecting habits could easily have been categorized as “hoarding.” I opened anything and everything. I also held onto it all. 

Nowadays my time is limited. While I will still try to open at least one box of almost everything, my “collect and hold” habits have become quite concentrated. I’ve started Micro Collecting.  At least that’s what I call it.

Micro Collecting involves finding projects that have personal meaning but can be achieved with a small number of cards. I’ll use my most recently completed Micro Collecting project as an example, all the players on the New York Rangers with numbers that have been retired.