{"id":611,"date":"2014-06-07T15:30:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T20:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=611"},"modified":"2014-06-07T15:30:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T20:30:25","slug":"what-a-hamm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=611","title":{"rendered":"What a Hamm!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received a signed card of\u00a0the VERY elusive Pete Hamm. \u00a0Brian F from <a title=\"ABC Unlimited\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abcunlimited.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC Unlimited<\/a> had a private signing where Pete signed just a couple cards for him and he then contacted the Twins collectors to see if we wanted to purchase one. \u00a0I jumped at the opportunity as he is on tough autograph to get. \u00a0It is a 1972 Topps signed in beautiful blue fine point Sharpie.<\/p>\n<p>Another envelope I received was some cards I traded for on SCN. \u00a0I received a message from Paul H (hartwick11 on SCN) that he needed a couple cards I had on my trader list for some sets he was working on. \u00a0He did not have any Twins cards I needed but decided to ask my friend Greg N (justgreg on SCN) who has gotten me numerous autographs in the past without asking for anything in return to check out his trader list to see if he needed any cards Paul had on his list. \u00a0Greg found a pair so I asked for those as well as a couple more to add to my trader list. \u00a0In all, I received the following cards from Paul:<br \/>\n1985 Topps Ernie Camacho (for Greg)<br \/>\n1985 Topps Matt Millen (for Greg)<br \/>\n1975 Topps Twins Team signed by Frank Quilici<br \/>\n1990 Upper Deck Juan Agosto<br \/>\n1994 Upper Deck BAT (?) Ken Brett<\/p>\n<p>It is always awesome to mark of a toughie from the Twins want list!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received a signed card of\u00a0the VERY elusive Pete Hamm. \u00a0Brian F from ABC Unlimited had a private signing where Pete signed just a couple cards for him and he then contacted the Twins collectors to see if we wanted to purchase one. \u00a0I jumped at the opportunity as he is on tough autograph &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/?p=611\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What a Hamm!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bought","category-topps-twins-project","category-trade"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kemmetmueller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}