David Hamilton

David Hamilton or Dave Hamilton or Davey Hamilton may refer to:

Dave Hamilton (author)

David John Hamilton (born 1974) British author, journalist, gardener and forager. Born in Northampton he now lives in Frome, Somerset.

He attended Weston Favell School in Northampton where he slipped through the education system leaving with only three GCSEs above C grade including English language.

He has lived all over the UK and amongst other things has worked as a market trader in Camden Stables Market and in Anjuna India, a postman and a gardener in Oxford and a driver's mate and factory worker in Northampton.

He later returned to education and whilst studying for a BSc in Nutrition and Food Science at Oxford Brookes he began growing his own food. Realising there were still bills to and full self-sufficiency was very difficult he coined the term 'Self-Sufficientish' which later was adopted by the website he runs with his twin brother.

The website led to the publishing of his first book, with Andy Hamilton, The Self Sufficient-ish Bible: An Eco-living Guide for the 21st Century (ISBN 978-0340951026).

Dave Hamilton (baseball)

David Edward Hamilton (born December 13, 1947) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who won three World Series championships as a member of the Oakland Athletics in the early 1970s.

Oakland A's

Hamilton was drafted out of Edmonds High School in Edmonds, Washington by the Kansas City Athletics in the fifth round of the 1966 Major League Baseball Draft. He spent six seasons in their farm system before receiving a call up to the Oakland Athletics in May of 1972. He won his major league debut on May 29, starting the second game of a doubleheader with the Texas Rangers.

He ended the season at 6–6 with a 2.93 earned run average as the A's headed to the 1972 American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers. Hamilton made only one appearance in the ALCS, blowing a save opportunity in game four. He appeared twice in the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. He faced just one batter, Joe Morgan in game five, and got a double play on a fly ball to Matty Alou in right field in which Pete Rose tried to score from third. In game six, the "Big Red Machine" tagged Hamilton for four runs in just two-thirds of an inning.