THE NEW YORK YANKEES - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED BASEBALL CO-SIGNED BY: JOE TORRE, WADE BOGGS, MEL STOTTLEMYRE, DAVE CONE, DON ZIMMER, MARIANO RIVERA, JOE GIRARDI, JIMMY KEY, ANDY FOX - HFSID 291564

NEW YORK YANKEES (1996)
American League (Budig) baseball signed by 17 players and coaches from the World Championship team, which would win 3 more titles in the next four years.
Baseball signed: "Joe Torre" (sweet spot), "Wade Boggs", "Jim Leyritz", "Jimmy Key", "Graeme Lloyd", "Gerald Williams", "Joe Girardi", "Mel Stottlemyre", "Jose Cardenal", "Dave Cone", "Mariano Rivera", "Bob Watson", "Don Zimmer", "Wally Whitehurst", "Tony Cloninger", "Andy Fox" and 1 unidentified signatures. Rawlings Official American League (Budig) baseball, bearing 17 signatures in blue ball-point. The 1996 New York Yankees under manager JOE TORRE went 92-70, good enough to win the American League East, blew through the Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles in 5- and 6-game series, and then whipped the Atlanta Braves in 6 games to begin a string of four World Championships in five years. Torre, a member of the Hall of Fame mainly for his managing, is joined there by batting tyro WADE BOGGS. Torre's coaching staff included the well known names of MEL STOTTLEMYRE, BOB WATSON, DON ZIMMER, TONY CLONINGER and JOSE CARDENAL. MARIANO RIVERA, arguably the greatest closer in the history of baseball and certainly the greatest post-season closer, and still the anchor of the Yankee bullpen 15 years later, is also here. JOE GIRARDI, the first-string catcher of the 1996 Yankees, is team manager 11 years later, having brought the storied franchise yet another World Series victory in 2009. A nice collection of names from a classy Yankee team. Fine condition.