Top 10 For 2025

I sent out a lot of requests this year, ending up with 237 successful returns, which is my most in any of the ten years I've done this.  This includes double digits every month and two more returns that I've yet to post this year, and it brings my all-time total over the last ten years to 1489!  As in past years, I'm not putting anyone on the list who has been on it before, otherwise this list would look drastically different.  That being said, this year's Top Ten list includes three basketball returns after the sport got shut out in the last three years, although one of those (Danny Ainge) can also be considered baseball, but we already have four others on it classified as baseball returns anyway, plus one football and two from the non-sport Entertainment (TV/Movies) world, both of whom are women.  Looking forward to 2026!  Happy New Year!
10: Danny Ainge (One-time All-Star and two-time NBA Champ who also spent three seasons in MLB)
9: Tony Dungy (Hall of Famer and one-time Super Bowl champ also played three seasons in NFL)
8: Vanna White (It's hard to believe she's been Wheel of Fortune co-host for 43 years)
7: Bert Blyleven (Hall of Famer and two-time World Series Champion won 287 regular season games)
6: Tommy John (Somehow not a Hall of Famer, he won 288 regular season games, most post-surgery)
5: Jim Calhoun (Hall of Famer best known for leading the UConn Huskies to 3 NCAA Championships )
4: Jennifer Lawrence (Well-known actress and star of Hunger Games, among other things)
3: Alonzo Mourning (Hall of Famer, one-time NBA Champ, averaged 17.1 points, 8.5 boards, 2.8 blocks)
2: Wade Boggs (Hall of Famer, one-time World Series Champ, 5x batting champ, 3,010 career hits)
1: Carlton Fisk (Worth $100 in cancer charity donations for two signed RCs of this legendary HOFer)