Talking about an awesome start !!!

Yeah baby, revenge is ours !! No I am not talking about our Dutch Hockey team below that is going to play the final of the world cup this afternoon (I expect them to win of course, go girls !!)



I am talking about Soccer !!! Robin van Persie !!!! Arjen Robben !!! We crushed world champion Spain last night in the openings match...5-1 !!!! Hope this is going to be another fun ride for the Dutch Team !!!

So after tonight, in addition to Bert Blyleven, we have another Flying Dutchman, Robin van Persie. I would recommend googling for yesterday's goals !!


Oh yes, it's in !!



Here's van Persie's only appearance in a baseball set, 2013 Allen & Ginter !

I am already looking forward to our next game on Wednesday against Australia. In the mean time, tonight it's Italy against England ! That should be another great match to watch !!

Wish us luck, hope we are heading for the final again !!

The start of a Hockey collection ??

Out of the blue I recently received a small yellow mailer with one card, call it an international PWE. In it was a strange card...strange because it was a hockey card, not "real" hockey (as we know it in Europe) but ice hockey (yes, I hear everybody thinking "what we play here in North America is "real" hockey!). The card was send to me by Douglas at Buck Store Cards. I had send him a Hockey relic a few months back from a guy called Getzlaf, apparently a well know player (yes, clearly demonstrating here I have no clue about ice hockey !). Douglas send me a card of Ed Kea in return, apparently the only NHL-er born in the Netherlands. So, that little fact makes this a cool addition to my collection !

Here it is !!

Not sure if this means the start of a Hockey collection, probably just a cool addition to my "Dutch" collection ! Thanks very much Douglas for a nice surprise !!

Hockey relic for trade !!

Last week I received an interesting package with a hockey card (or icehockey as we call it in Europe). Well, I don't collect hockey cards and have actually no clue who the guy is on this relic card. To be clear, that's says more about my knowledge of hockey as it might be one of the key guys in the league !

Anyways, it turns out that an eBay seller send me the card by accident. As the cost of returning the card were appartently higher than the value of the card the seller was nice enough to let me keep the card !!

As I don't collect hockey cards this one is now officially for trade !! If you are interested in the card let me know and we will set something up !!

Thanks for checking my blog today !