Limiting myself to seven words per card.99 Frank Woolworth
Pioneered discount stores, legacy killed by WalMart.38 Patrick Henry
Cake or death? No! Liberty or death!28 David Farragut
They had torpedoes in 1864? No foolin...103 The Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident.C7 Walt Whitman Chrome
Didja know Whitman was a baseball fan?54 Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist, orator, journalist and Redd Foxx lookalike.71 Henry Clay
Is Kentucky Whigs a transvestite basketball team?86 Duke Ellington
My best pull of '09 so far.
This set looks pretty cool. Frederick Douglass was a hell of a man, we all need to hear about him more often.
ReplyDeleteUh, no.
ReplyDeleteoooooohhh.. i'm such a sucker
ReplyDeleteI am in. Everybody knows Walt Whitman was a baseball fan. Annie (Susan Sarandon) quotes that line in "Bull Durham".
ReplyDeleteand Henry Clay! He once said "I'd rather be right then be President" he must of been right because he lost the presidential election something like four times. He is like the Buffalo Bills of Politicians.
No, the set isn't cool, or no, Frederick Douglass was a bad person?
ReplyDeleteI would kill several cute animals to get that Henry Clay card.
ReplyDeleteken burns' baseball documentary kicked off with keillor quoting whitman. 'the game of ball is glorious!'
ReplyDeleteyep, that duke ellington rc is THE pull. i can only hope there's a john coltrane card in the set too.
ReplyDeleteuh, no in that tjhese cards are crap.
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