2009 Topps Baseball Trading Cards

We have been adding 2009 Topps Baseball to the Card section of our site, hoping to have these added really soon and move onto another year. Not sure about all of you card collectors, but I think Topps makes some great cards and it is fun collecting them every year.

Are you working on building sets? Let us know if you need a card as we have a massive inventory of cards from the 60's to present from Baseball, Basketball, Football and Hockey.

Remember our prices for our cards on our site always include Free shipping, if you are interested in purchasing multiple cards from our site, please contact us prior to purchasing so we can offer you a discount for multiple purchases.

Vintage 60's & 70's GI JOE Action Figure Clothing

Dug out some nice Vintage GI Joe figures, accessories, and clothing. We are still sorting a ton of this stuff but we just added some clothing to the site. The clothing ranges from the 60's to the early 70's. Stay tuned for weapons and accessories!

For those that are curious about the info on the tags please visit the guidelines below to learn how to date the clothing.

1st Issue: 1964-65                     
        G.I. Joe  ™
        BY    HASBRO
       HONG    KONG
2nd  Issue: 1964                 
            G.I. Joe  ™
           BY HASBRO
3rd Issue: 1964-65                     
          G.I. Joe  ™ 
            BY HASBRO
                JAPAN           ®
4th Issue 1964-65                   
              G.I. Joe    ™
            BY HASBRO
      MADE IN OKINAWA     ®
5th issue 1966-73       
        G.I. Joe    ®
         BY HASBRO
             JAPAN
6th Issue 1966-76                     
            G.I. Joe    ®   
           BY HASBRO
          HONG KONG
7th Issue 1974-76   (LETTERING IS SAME AS 6th BUT TAG MATERIAL IS DIFFERENT)                         
               G.I. Joe     ®
              BY HASBRO
             HONG KONG
8th Issue 1974-76                   
                G.I. Joe     ®
               BY HASBRO
                  TAIWAN

Here are also some good links on vintage GI Joe's
http://beachhead.tibranch.com
http://www.atgijoe.com

1983 Vintage Robert Plant T Shirt

Super nice vintage tee from the lead singer of Led Zeppelin. Robert plant from his 1983 US Tour The Principle of Moments. Here is video from one of my favorite songs from his solo career.

Throwback Sports News - This Day in Sports History...

THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY

1905 - Frank Smith (Chicago White Sox) pitched a no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers. The game set a record for the most lopsided margin of victory for a no-hitter in AL history (15-0).

1924 - Urban Shocker (St. Louis Brown) pitched two complete games against the Chicago White Sox. He won both games 6-2.

1943 - The youngest player to appear in an American League baseball game was pitcher Carl Scheib of the Philadelphia Athletics. Scheib was 16 years, eight months and five days old.

1981 - Fernando Valenzuela (Los Angeles Dodgers) tied a National League record of seven shutouts by a rookie pitcher.

1995 - Cal Ripken played his 2,131st consecutive game setting a new record. Lou Gehrig previously held the record.

1996 - Eddie Murray (Baltimore Orioles) hit his 500th career home run during a game against the Detroit Tigers. He was only the third person to have at least 3,000 hits and 500 home runs.

2000 - Scott Sheldon (Texas Rangers) became the third player in major league baseball history to play all nine positions in one game.

2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco) became the fifth player in major league baseball history to hit 60 home runs in a season.

47 years ago - Rolling Stones - Get off My Cloud!

47 years ago the Rolling Stones recorded Get off My Cloud.

Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the song was recorded in early September 1965. The song is noted for its drum intro by Charlie Watts and twin guitars by Brian Jones and Keith Richards.^[2] The lyrics are defiant and rebellious, which was common practice for the Rolling Stones around that time; they were beginning to cultivate their infamous "bad boy" image. The Stones have said that the song is written as a reaction to their sudden popularity after the success of "Satisfaction". The song deals with their aversion to people's expectations of them.

“

I was sick and tired, fed up with this and decided to take a drive downtown; It was so very quiet and peaceful, there was nobody, not a soul around; I laid myself out, I was so tired and I started to dream; In the morning the parking tickets were just like flags stuck on my windscreen

”

On the song, Richards said in 1971, "I never dug it as a record. The chorus was a nice idea, but we rushed it as the follow-up. We were in L.A., and it was time for another single. But how do you follow-up "Satisfaction"? Actually, what I wanted was to do it slow like a Lee Dorsey thing. We rocked it up. I thought it was one of Andrew Loog Oldham's worst productions."^[3] In a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone, Jagger said, "That was Keith's melody and my lyrics... It's a stop-bugging-me, post-teenage-alienation song. The grown-up world was a very ordered society in the early '60s, and I was coming out of it. America was even more ordered than anywhere else. I found it was a very restrictive society in thought and behavior and dress."^[4] In the 2003 book According to... The Rolling Stones, Richards says: "'Get off of My Cloud' was basically a response to people knocking on our door asking us for the follow-up to 'Satisfaction'... We thought, 'At last. We can sit back and maybe think about events.' Suddenly there's the knock at the door and of course what came out of that was 'Get off of My Cloud'.
The song is in E major and is a variation on the "Louie Louie" riff: I-IV-V-IV; in this case E A B A. Brian Jones' guitar part can only just about be heard in the mono mix of the song as it is buried under the sound of the other instrument parts. It can only be clearly heard in some, but not all, unofficial stereo remixes.

24 years ago Metallica - And Justice for All!

On this day in 1988 Metallica's And Justice for All was released!

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Blackened"	James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Jason Newsted	6:41
2.	"...And Justice for All"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Kirk Hammett	9:46
3.	"Eye of the Beholder"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett	6:30
4.	"One"	Hetfield, Ulrich	7:27
5.	"The Shortest Straw"	Hetfield, Ulrich	6:35
6.	"Harvester of Sorrow"	Hetfield, Ulrich	5:45
7.	"The Frayed Ends of Sanity"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett	7:44
8.	"To Live Is to Die"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Cliff Burton	9:48
9.	"Dyers Eve"	Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett	5:13
Total length:			65:29

Throwback Sports News - This Day in Sports History...

THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY

 1901 - The National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues was formed in Chicago, IL. It was the first organized baseball league.

1906 - Brandbury Robinson of St. Louis University was recognized as throwing the first forward pass in football history.

1914 - Babe Ruth hit his first home run as a professional player in the International League.

1918 - Babe Ruth (Boston Red Sox) threw a six-hitter in the opening game of the World Series.

1955 - Don Newcombe (Brooklyn Dodgers) hit his seventh home run of the season. The feat set a National League record for home runs by a pitcher.

1960 - Cassius Clay won the gold medal in light heavyweight boxing at the Olympic Games in Rome, Italy. Clay later changed his name to Muhammad Ali.

1971 - J.R. Richard, of the Houston Astros, tied Karl Spooner’s record when he struck out 15 batters in his major-league baseball debut.

1998 - Mark McGwire (St. Louis) hit his 60th home run of the season. The home run tied McGwire with Babe Ruth.

1998 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) hit his 58th home run of the season.

1999 - The Cincinnati Reds set a major league team record for home runs in two consecutive games. The team hit 14 home runs over the two games at Veterans Stadium.

2001 - The New York Islanders signed Alexi Yashin to a 10-year $90 million contract. It was the biggest deal in NHL history.

Throwback Sports News - This Day in Sports History...

THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY

1895 - The first professional football game was played in Latrobe, PA. The Latrobe YMCA defeated the Jeannette Athletic Club 12-0.

1947 - The New York Yankees got 18 hits in an 11-2 win over Boston. All 18 hits were singles.

1957 - Warren Spahn (Milwaukee Braves) recorded his 41st career shutout.

1966 - Bobby Orr (Boston Bruins) signed his first NHL contract. The two-year deal paid $70,000 plus a signing bonus, gave Orr the top salary in hockey.

1970 - Vince Lombardi died of cancer at the age of 57.

1970 - Billy Williams (Chicago Cubs) ended his National League record of 1,117 consecutive games played.

1981 - The Boston Red Sox and the Seattle Mariners played the longest game in Fenway Park history. The game was ended in a 7-7 tie after 19 innings the previous day. The Mariners won the game 8-7.

1984 - Bruce Sutter of the St. Louis Cardinals set a National League record by earning his 38th save of the season.

1986 - The Houston Astros beat the Chicago Cubs 8-7 in the 18th inning. The game was ended the day before after 14 innings were played. The two teams had used a record 53 players the day before.

1990 - Bobby Thigpen set a major league record when he got his 47th save.

1999 - Mario Lemieux's ownership group officially took over the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins. Lemieux became the first player in the modern era of sports to buy the team he had once played for.

2000 - Kenny Lofton tied a major league record when he scored in his 18th straight game.

2001 - Bud Smith became the 16th major league rookie to throw a no-hitter. It was his 11th career start.

Throwback Sports News - This Day in Sports History...

THIS DAY IN SPORTS HISTORY

1906 - Jack Coombs of the American League’s Philadelphia Athletics pitched 24 innings against the Boston Red Sox.

1971 - Danny Murtaugh of the Pittsburgh Pirates gave his lineup card to the umpire with the names of nine black baseball players on it. This was a first for Major League Baseball.

1998 - Mark McGwire, of the St. Louis Cardinals, hit his 56th and 57th homeruns to set a new National League record. He would eventually reach a total of 70 for the season on September 27.