Braves rookie Tommy Hanson, who finished third in the voting for the National League Rookie of the Year Award, was named to Topps' 51st Rookie All-Star team, along with the two players who finished ahead of him in the award voting, Florida outfielder Chris Coghlan and Philadelphia pitcher JA Happ.
The rest of the player selected include Mets' catcher Omir Santos, Giants first baseman Travis Ishikawa, White Sox second baseman Chris Getz and third baseman Gordon Beckham, Rangers shortstop (and former Braves prospect) Elvis Andrus, Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen and Orioles outfielder Nolan Reimold.
The accolade is just another sign of how good Hanson was this year for Atlanta. I've personally had the pleasure of seeing all of the players on this All-Star team at one point or another in their Minor League career, with the exception of Beckham, and I think that Hanson has by far the best chance to be a long-term star player in the Major League, with McCutchen as a solid second.
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I have a VERY large collection of Tommy Hanson topps and upper deck cards.
anyone wanna see?
cgilmo78 - November 25, 2009
I’m digging your avatar. Sure, show em.
cbwilk - November 25, 2009
heh, my last name is Gilmore, and I go to a lot of rome braves games, so it seemed natural.
cgilmo78 - November 25, 2009
I agree about both Hanson and McCutchen. If we need an outfielder in 3 years and the Pirates still suck (very likely), I would love to trade for McCutchen like we traded for McLouth
eaheckman10 - November 25, 2009
two graded rookies from topps chrome
and the blue refractor version
cgilmo78 - November 25, 2009
cgilmo78 - November 25, 2009
Re: Card #2
IMO, any pitcher who is forced to “pose” in the “mid-pitch” pose looks goofy. Because it is, it looks so unnatural and awkward, and it always looks silly when the do video of a pitcher doing a staged throw, and the ball is in their hand during the follow through, and they try to cut it off the frame, but everyone, their mother, and Ray Charles can see that the ball is still there.
royhobbs - November 25, 2009
I agree, I prefer the real action shots.
cgilmo78 - November 25, 2009
His first topps card came in 2007, and is not autographed
cgilmo78 - November 25, 2009
Nice stuff man. I don’t have any of the factory autorgaphed stuff, but I have most of the stuff he had out before this summer signed in person, including his college summer team card.
cbwilk - November 25, 2009
Nice, I have lots of stuff IP’d from his time in AA.
cgilmo78 - November 25, 2009
Good deal. Tommy’s a great guy.
cbwilk - November 25, 2009
Freddie Freeman, Jason Heyward, Tommy Hanson, Kris Medlen, all class act guys.
cgilmo78 - November 25, 2009
Yes, absolutely. The vast majority of the organization is class act.
cbwilk - November 25, 2009
here is a printing plate used to print his 2007 Bowman Heritage card.
cgilmo78 - November 25, 2009
Gotta love the printing plates. My buddy got Jon Knott to sign his one time.
cbwilk - November 26, 2009
looks alittle Benicio Del Toroish in this one…man, Tommy is alittle bit of everything, just don’t google image search his name withthe filter off…
bwellnjonesco - November 26, 2009 via mobile
I found that out the hard way
it aint pretty
esadb - November 26, 2009
I've never posed an image on here but here's my favorite of Hanson:
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GouldisGold - November 25, 2009
+1
rec’d
Scott Coleman - November 25, 2009
Pardon my ignorance, but does this award mean that he’ll get some kind of special card made for him, or is this strictly an award Topps gives out?
Zeus12888 - November 25, 2009
I dunno if they do it anymore, but all it means is that in his 2010 Topps releases, he gets a little trophy on his card that says TOPPS ALL ROOKIE TEAM
bigjoe - November 25, 2009
Yeah, they still do that.
cbwilk - November 26, 2009
Yeah, he might get an actual trophy maybe, but I don’t know about that
eaheckman10 - November 26, 2009
it’s a topps award, but his card in next years set will have an all rookie team trophy on it.
cgilmo78 - November 26, 2009
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