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Bob Tillman 1962 (in 1967)
I knew Bobby Cox well enough that we would sit on the Braves' bench at Shea and CitiField every time Atlanta came to town, and talk about almost everything but baseball. But he asked me once how long I'd been a fan and I made him laugh so loud he turned red by answering "Since December 7, 1967, the day of the history-making trade of Bob Tillman and Dale Roberts by the Yankees to the Braves for Bobby Cox."
Tillman came to the Yankees in August, 1967, as part of the swap of Elston Howard to backstop the Impossible Dream Red Sox to the pennant. He started just 15 games behind the plate for the Yankees then went to Atlanta in the Cox Swap.
Topps did get Tillman in a Yankee uniform (they even had chosen and prepared a nice shot of him, traditional Topps crouching/catching pose, for use on card 174 in 1968. Then came the trade and it was replaced by a hapless headshot from Tillman's years in Boston.
The Brace collection includes TWO shots of Tillman with the Yankees. They are attached here, as is a screen of an obscured version of the pulled Topps image inside its case - and I think this is the complete set of known color shots of this player with this team.
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