The Seahawks Defense of the mid-2000’s was a huge reason they went to their first Super Bowl. Unfortunately Ken Hamlin was involved in a nasty bar fight that ended his season and couldn’t play in the big game.

2003 Finest Gold X-Fractors /175

Go Hawks!

My favorite year of Finest!

Who knew a common card would be this remarkable almost 40 years later

The Godfather of applying advanced metrics in baseball like .obp, his story about how he built the 2002 A’s team was the reason for the book Money Ball by Michael Lewis. And Michael Lewis really only focuses on culturally shifting topics. The book—>movie with Brad Pitt playing Billy Beane.

-Stanford offered him a scholarship to play both baseball and football and he was going to replace John Elway as QB

-Played 6 years of pro ball between the minors and majors before moving into the front office in 1990 with the Tigers as an advanced Scout

-Ever the business man, started the acquisition firm RedBall

-Was known for his empathic ways within every organization he worked form. Empathy is a super power.

Here’s an eBay link to all the Billy Beane sports memorabilia on eBay: https://ebay.us/UHafJv