WUSA - Washington Freedom - Mia Hamm

2003-Aug-02 RFK Stadium Washington DC

Washington 5-0 Cyberrays

19th game of the season

2003 Playoff promo with attached pinback button an Mia Hamm card

1999 - Fantastic Four - Mia Hamm

From the pages of Marvel Comics - Fantastic Four vol3 #24 December 1999

Valeria Richards (the younger sister of Franklin who traveled through time and is now older than her older brother and Franklin - comicbook logic) and Franklin relaxing by playing soccer.

I like the text "I learned these moves from Mia Hamm herself....before she coached the Gold-Medal winning U.S. Olympic Soccer Team!

- written by Chris Claremont art by Salvador Larroca -

US Women's National Team cards

Brandi Chastain (signed)

Mia Hamm

Pick these cards up recently, do not know anything about them, still doing the research.....
The back have the Nike logo and a player bio. Size is 5x7. Issued 1999 or later based on the jersey being worn...

Cereal boxes

After Post Cereals issued cereal boxes with Alex Morgan and Omar Gonzalez, I decided to do some research on older cereal boxes that may have been issued:

1994 Kellogg's Raisin Bran - MLS Soccer Slam

1997 Kellogg's Raisin Bran

Marco Etcheverry (DC United) - - Carlos Valderrama (Tampa Bay Mutiny)

Football Cartophilic

1996 Kellogg's - Alexi Lalas (KC Wizards) and Tab Ramos (MetroStars)

sold on ebay for $10.00

In 1996 Kellogg's featured several players for the inaugural season and continued to do so over several years. In 2002 Kellogg launched a special edition of it's Frosted Flakes cereal featuring the Kansas City Wizards following their 2000 MLS Cup Championship and the San Jose Earthquakes following their 2001 MLS Cup championship..

In 1999 Wheaties, famous for all of the athletes they feature on their boxes joined the women's soccer craze honoring members of the US Women's National team following the US Women's World Cup held in the US in 1999

2004 Taylor Twellman - Waffle Crisp

In 2004 Post issued 4 boxes featuring Taylor Twellman (New England Revolution), Landon Donovan (San Jose Earthquakes), Chris Armas (Chicago Fire) and Freddy Adu (DC United) on boxes of Alpha-bits, Waffle Crisp, Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Pebbles, Honeycomb, Strawberry Blast Honeycomb, Oreo O's, Golden Crisp and Marshmallow Alpha-bits. Each box offered a free footbag (hacky sack) with the MLS logo.  Post is a product of Kraft foods, which became an official sponsor of the MLS in 2004.

2012 Quaker's Life cereal box featured Chicago Fire's Austin Berry. As sponsor of the Chicago Fire Quaker took it upon themselves to help promote Berry as the selection for 2012 MLS Rookie of the Year, which he was awarded...

1999 Quaker - US Soccer Golden Goals, featuring the 1999 US Women's World Championship team.
updated 2014.12.23

1996 Olympics - First Day Covers

Claudio Reyna - 1996 Olympics

I attended a comic book show today and had one of the artists, Ken Branch, whose specialty is sports portraits and superheroes, to draw a picture of Claudio Reyna on a 1996 Olympic first day cover.  The 1996 Summer Olympics were held in Atlanta, Ga, USA, with the US Women's team taking the gold over China, while the men's competition saw Nigeria taking the gold medal over Argentina. The US men's team would finish third in group competition and not advance to the quarter finals.

Claudio Reyna participated in the 1992 Summer Olympics, Barcelona and the 1996 Summer Olympics, Atlanta, Ga...

Mia Hamm - 1996 Olympics

Drawn by artist Joe Orsak, this cover features Mia Hamm, who played for the US Women's National team from 1987-2004. Hamm participated for the US in three Olympic tournaments: Atlanta 1996 (Gold), Sydney 2000 (Silver) and Athens 2004 (Gold).

FIFA World Cup: China 1991 (1st), Sweden 1995 (3rd), USA 1999 (1st), USA 2003 (3rd)

FIFA World Player of the Year (Women) 2001, 2002

US National Soccer Hall of Fame 2007

Alabama Sports Hall of Fame 2006

Texas Sports Hall of Fame 2008

posted 2012.11.21

Tommy from the Rugrat comic - drawn by comic strip artist Gary Fields 2013.03.30 Asbury Park Comic Con, Asbury Park, NJ.  I decided to have some fun with this by having Tommy play soccer on the cover, inspired by the Olympic soccer matches..
posted 2013.03.30

Got Milk?

The Got Milk campaign started in 1993 to promote the benefits drinking of cow's milk. The advertising campaign featured celebrities (actors, media, athletes and fictional characters) sporting milk mustaches.

This Freddy Adu Kick It Into Gear ad was found in the back of a Marvel Ghost Rider comic from 2006.

Other soccer stars featured included David Beckham:

Goal by Beckham, Body by milk...

Mia Ham - 9 Essential Nutrients

2008 USA Olympic team, includes Leslie Osborne, Natasha Kai and Sacha Kljestan

Mia Hamm - 2002 Twizzlers

Mia Hamm card #1

Mia Hamm card #2

After producing a couple of baseball card premiums, Twizzlers (Hershey Candy Co) produced a set that included 2 cards of each athlete from a variety of sports, they included Mia Hamm - soccer; Nomar Garciaparra - baseball; Alonzo Mourning - basketball; Ken Harvick - auto racing; Donovan McNabb - football..

2011 - Upper Deck Goodwin Chamnpions

2011 Upper Deck Goodwin Champions

Designed with vintage themes and relics, featured sport stars from the past and present...The cards are packed 5 cards per pack, a regular set of 150 base cards, masterpiece cards, Museum collection relics, landmark relics, entomology cards, and thoroughbred hair cuts, autographs and patch cards...

From the world of soccer the set includes:

Abby Wambach, Brandi Chastain

 Christine Sinclair, Dwayne De Rosario

 Hope Solo, Kasey Keller

Landon Donovan, Mia Hamm

Autographed cards were also issued for Abby Wambach, Hope Solo, Mia Hamm, Landon Donovan, Kasey Keller...

Memorabilia cards were also issued for Hope Solo, Landon Donovan, Dwayne De Rosario, Kasey Keller...

Mia Hamm - US National - Sports Illustrated for Kids

Mia Hamm - US National - Sports Illustrated for Kids card # 337 - 2004

 

Mia Hamm - player cards

2007 Topps introduced the Allen & Ginter set of baseball cards which featured stars from "on and off the baseball field". The card design mimics the Allen & Ginter cards produced in the 1800s, which also featured many non-baseball cards. The framed autograph cards were produced on cards that were the original small sized Allen & Ginter cards framed to the standard 2.5 x 3.5 card size.

A few of the cards in this set featured soccer players, most notably Mia Hamm, in both the base card and framed autograph. The back of the base card reads:

Soccer Champion (card #272) - Mia has been the face of the explosive growth of American girls' and women's soccer over the pat two decades and one of the most recognizable stars in sports.

The talented striker led North Carolina to four NCAA titles, became in 1991 the youngest player (19) to win a FIFA Women's World cup crown, led the US to gold in the 2004 Summer Games and broke the international career record for goals.
Mia - Kellogg's and Tony the Tiger Earn Your Stripes promo card featured as part of an advertisement in Sports Illustrated Kids, along with Tony Hawk...

World Cup USA94 - Upper Deck Cards

Linda Hamilton - Mary Harvey

April Henrichs - Carin Gabarra

Michelle Akers-Staal - Carla Overbeck

Mia Hamm - Kristine Lilly

Joy Fawcett - Julie Foudy

As part of the Upper Deck World Cup USA94 Contenders set (English/Spanish version), 11 cards were issued to honor the US Women's National Team. 330 cards were issued

The cards were - 265 - April Henrichs, 266 - Mary Harvey, 267 - Michelle Akers-Stahl, 268 - Mia Ham, 269 - Carin Gabarra, 270 - Carla Overbeck, 271 - Julie Foudy, 272 - Joy Fawcett, 273 - Kristine Lilly, 274 - Linda Hamilton, 275 - Team photo