HAM Sports Cards

06/19/2026

Colson is crushing 💪

06/16/2026

06/15/2026

DuBois we are coming back to what was one of our favorite shows of the year.

September 12th and 13th. See you soon!

06/13/2026

We will be set up in Wexford at the Camelot Event Center this Saturday from 9:00-4:00 and of course we will be buying!!!!!

06/13/2026

We have been telling you! 😂

This young man is really something special to watch. MisiorowsKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKi

06/13/2026

We don’t rip a ton of wax but sometimes we get lucky when we do!

06/12/2026

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06/11/2026

I don’t think we have ever had a Sam Rice card. We need to change that and tell his story.

Baseball remembers Sam Rice for the numbers and for one famous mystery. He finished his career 13 hits short of 3,000 and never seemed to mind. He made a catch in the 1925 World Series that people argued about for decades, then kept the answer to himself in a sealed letter that was only opened after he died. But the thing he guarded most carefully had nothing to do with any of that.

In April 1912, before any of the fame, a young man named Edgar Rice left his wife and two small children with his parents and sisters and went off to a baseball tryout in Illinois. While he was away, a tornado tore through the family farm near Morocco, Indiana. When it passed, his wife, both of his children, his mother, and two of his sisters were gone. His father died of his injuries a week later. Rice came home to bury them across two funerals, then left town and did not speak of it again.

He took the name Sam, went to sea, came back to the game, and built a Hall of Fame life over twenty years in Washington. His own second wife did not learn what had happened until decades into their marriage, and only by accident, when a writer mentioned it in passing. There are men who would let a loss that large swallow everything that came after. Rice carried it in silence and kept going for sixty more years. That kind of quiet is its own kind of strength.

This comment was left by Old Ball Game Studios fan via YouTube.

06/10/2026