on November 11th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
In Flanders Fields
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
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on November 5th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
A while back, Mario over at Wax Heaven had a contest. He was giving away the winner’s choice of cards from his break of 2009 Bowman Sterling football, in exchange for finding some of these:
I tracked down 8 or so, and got in touch with Mario. He sent the Bowman Sterling cards I selected my [...]
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on October 31st, 2009 by thehamiltonian
I love this stuff.
Autograph: Dave Scott
Memorabilia: Chris Young (this guy looks terrified in this picture) & Yogi Berra (my first vintage GU piece).
Base Set Variation: Ken Griffey, Jr night sky variation.
I have the usual assortment of base, minis and SPs. I will probably be posting what I have for trade in a few days. If [...]
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on October 28th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
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on October 24th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
In 2007, Josh Hamilton’s card population exploded. Aside from strict prospect only sets, I think he was in every set issued. In fact, he might have been in most of the prospect sets as well, because he was one of those ‘Rookie Logo’ players in 2007. His comeback was big news, but for most of [...]
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on October 23rd, 2009 by thehamiltonian
Today’s mail shows the benefits of plowing through everyone’s tradelist when they say they are interested in a card of yours. Every so often, you find a card you need, but that you weren’t specifically looking for. For me, this is usually Josh Hamilton cards from between 2000 and 2004. He had a ton of [...]
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on October 19th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
I tried for a while, but I just came up empty. Beardy showed off his half of our trade a few days ago, and the mailman droppe my cards off today. You know its good, because I actually scanned them the same day they showed up. Let’s get on with the show.
Starting off small….
Get it? [...]
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on October 17th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
If you follow my Twitter,you know something kind of neat came out of this box. If you don’t follow my Twitter, you should, because then you would know stuff like that.
Here’s the goods, starting with the Hamiltons:
And the card I was really, really hoping to pull:
I pulled one of the SPs out of this box, [...]
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on October 17th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
There seem to be a few hockey fans who trip across this blog on the internet, so I thought I would give everyone the heads up on a contest I am running over at my hockey blog where I am giving away the hits from a box of ITG 1972: The Year in Hockey. Check [...]
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on October 16th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
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on October 16th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
A quick post about a new pickup this evening. I am torn between liking and hating numbered base cards. Often, it comes down to whether it is a nice card or not. 2009 Ballpark Collection? Nice base cards. I picked this one up in a flawless transaction on FreedomCardboard.com. I also snagged a PSA 9 [...]
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on October 14th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
Referring to this card:
When I first heard about this insert, I really hoped hamilton would be the Rangers player featured. And here he is. As soon as I find a seller shipping to Canada, or a willing trade partner, this card is going to be mine. It looks beautiful.
[...]
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on October 8th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
I have been a little bit busy with some various projects these days. I have been working on some trades, and those are starting to roll in. I haven’t been picking up a lot of Hamilton cards these days. I am in one of those periodic lulls. There just isn’t anything I want to spend [...]
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on October 3rd, 2009 by thehamiltonian
I like this stuff probably more than I should. I cracked another pack. I don’t know how I did value-wise (probably not great), but it certainly is fun.
Base Cards – Albert Pujols, Joba Chamberlain
Dual Jersey – Kerry Wood, Chad Billingsley / 400
Jersey / Autograph – Brian McCann
Quad Jersey – Beckett / Halladay / Wagner / [...]
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on October 2nd, 2009 by thehamiltonian
Today’s mail brought a nice little stack of Allen & Ginter cards that I needed for my set. They came from a trade with everyone’s favorite troll – the Collective Troll! I saw his post about the last sketch card he needed for his A& G set, and we quickly worked out a trade that [...]
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on October 1st, 2009 by thehamiltonian
I picked this card up in a trade on The Bench. I freely admit – purple is not my favorite colour. Hamilton cards /25 are among my favorites though, so I will make an exception. Heroes was one of those sets that just seemed to keep going. Hamilton had a ridiculous number of cards in [...]
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on September 27th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
I showed off the Hamilton quad jersey I pulled out of my Ballpark break yesterday. Today, I’ll show you the rest of the goodies. You are supposed to get either one autograph and two memorabilia cards per pack, or three memorabilia cards. I got one of each variety. All things being equal, in this product [...]
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on September 26th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
In addition to the (awesome) box of Goodwin I broke today, the shop had Ballpark Collection in. I am a sucker to pull relics. There is no better place to pull relics than Ballpark Collection. I will give everyone a complete breakdown of Ballpark probably tomorrow, but I decided to show off the Hamilton cards [...]
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on September 26th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
I went up to the local card shop today, and I am glad I did. First, a little story. My shop is upstairs in a building on the main drag. As I was walking upstairs, I could tell there were more people there than usual (I always go early on a Saturday morning, so this [...]
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on September 19th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
Since my shop didn’t have Goodwin in yet, I did a box of A&G (summarized earlier) and a box of 2009 Upper Deck Football. I don’t collect a lot of football, but it does make for some amazing looking cards. The photography in base Upper Deck products are amazing across the board, and it gives [...]
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on September 19th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
This is my third box of 2009 Allen & Ginter (my shop is getting Goodwin in next week), and the first one that had significant Hamilton content – it was only one card, but it started right away. This was in my first pack.
The rest of the box was as expected – I got my [...]
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on September 18th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
My last post was about some new products commemorating World War II, and the soldiers who fought in it. After hearing about this product, I was somewhat inspired to go digging through my box of TTM autos, and try my hand at some custom cut autographs.
Several years ago, I wrote to many of the men [...]
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on September 17th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
In keeping with the trend I just recently started with my American Heritage box break that I recently posted, we are staying in the past. Trader’s Crack alerted me to an awesome product – put out by icardz, a Canadian company based in PEI.
Their World War 2 Series I cards focusing on D-Day will feature [...]
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on September 14th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
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on September 7th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
Just when I was running low on ideas, Dinged Corners comes up with something. Basically, flip through a binder in 30 seconds, and grab 6 cards that make you happy. I knew just where to go – my Team Canada binder!
These cards aren’t in the order that I pulled them or anything like that. Basically, [...]
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on September 6th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
Here’s the ‘goodies’ from my box of American Heritage. Most of this is available, if you are interested. I am going to finish off the Medal of Honor set for myself, so if you have those and want to trade shoot me a note.
Chromes /1776 – C3 (John McCain), C16 (Hiram Rhodes Revels), C29 (Mother [...]
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on September 6th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
First off – I am a hopeless geek. So, when you are reading this review, and thinking ‘wow, anyone who likes history this much is a huge geek’ – you are right. But, then – you are reading a baseball card blog, so I think we are almost even.
I am going to do [...]
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on September 5th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
I hit up the card shop today, so I have a few things to post. I broke a box of Topps American Heritage, which was a blast, a couple packs of Philadelphia football, which were decidedly dull and four packs of 2009 Bowman Baseball, which were exactly as I expected. I’m not doing these by [...]
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on September 5th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
Upper Deck X is one of those products I am glad I don’t have to break. Hamilton had a fairly sizable list of cards, but they were easily obtainable (except for the fact that there were 4 plates for every card on the checklist). I picked up most of them off eBay, and then Marie [...]
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on September 4th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
I posted my Allen & Ginter wants and traders a few weeks ago, and the loot is starting to roll in. I knocked off some huge chunks through trades on The Bench, and also had some blog interest. Beardy was interested in my Unicorn, and I am chasing the black bordered minis. It worked out [...]
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on September 2nd, 2009 by thehamiltonian
Josh Hamilton checked out of tonight’s game versus the Blue Jays after the fourth inning. He hit a double to right, and it looked like something tweaked while he was rounding first. He stayed in the game, and scored on a single by Nelson Cruz later in the inning, so hopefully it isn’t serious. That [...]
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on August 26th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
I am working through Topps Allen & Ginter right now, both for my sets and my player collections. My sets got a good start when I broke two boxes of the stuff. My player collection did not fare nearly so well from those two boxes.
In my first box, I got one lousy Hamilton card. You [...]
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on August 23rd, 2009 by thehamiltonian
I have a lot of Josh Hamilton cards. I just checked with my Beckett collections, and the current count is 275 different cards. Twenty-one memorabilia cards, 17 autographs, and 79 serial numbered cards. Of that number – not one of them was a patch.
That changed today. I snagged this beauty off eBay via a best [...]
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on August 19th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
One of my favorite places to kill time on a slow workday is The Vault at CNNSI.com. Basically, free (ad-supported) access to every Sports Illustrated article ever published. There have been some duds, and there have been a lot of gems. There is always a way to kill a few idle minutes.
The new issue (I’m [...]
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on August 15th, 2009 by thehamiltonian
Josh Hamilton was once baseball’s ‘Next Big Thing’. The current holder of that moniker is Nevada high schooler Bryce Harper. This weekend, Harper is participating in the annual AFLAC All-American Game. As part of the festivities surrounding the game, Topps makes cards for the participants, to be handed out to fans at the game, and [...]
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