Blow Out the Candles September 2

Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw is celebrating his 64th birthday today.

 1973 Topps #15

Career highlights and awards
Rated #50 NFL Player of all-time by NFL.com as of 2009 season
4× Super Bowl champion (IX, X, XIII, XIV)
2× Super Bowl MVP (XIII, XIV)
3× Pro Bowl selection (1975, 1978, 1979)
1× First-team All-Pro selection (1978)
1× Second-team All-Pro selection (1979)
NFL 1970s All-Decade Team
1978 NFL MVP
1978 Bert Bell Award
Led the NFL in TD passes in 1978 and 1982

 A couple of winners, Terry with Roger Staubach

 Terry with Mean Joe Greene

 Remember the good times Pirates fans?  Maybe they're coming back.

C'mon.  Admit it.  You have the 8-track.

If only someone had been taking notes all of the world's problems could have been solved.

Good times!

Tennis great Jimmy Connors is celebrating his 60th birthday today.

The winner of 8 Grand Slam singles titles Jimmy is by far the winningest male player of the open era with 109 singles titles and 1229 match wins.

Bad boy, bad boys ...

Too bad this didn't last.

Jimmy and Martina

Old friends?

Hall of Fame guard Nate "Tiny" Archibald is celebrating his 64th birthday today.

 1972-73 Topps #169

Career highlights and awards
NBA champion (1981)
6× NBA All-Star (1973, 1975–1976, 1980–1982)
3× All-NBA First Team (1973, 1975–1976)
2× All-NBA Second Team (1972, 1981)
NBA scoring champion (1973)
NBA assists leader (1973)
NBA All-Star Game MVP (1981)
NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
#1 Retired by the Sacramento Kings

Hall of Fame player, manager and sporting good magnate Albert Goodwill Spalding was born in Byron, Illinois on this date in 1850.

Musician Billy Preston was born in Houston, Texas on this date in 1946.

In addition to a solo career Billy played with both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

  

Fan Pack Fun 2012 Atlanta Falcons

I received this nice fan pack from the Atlanta Falcons.

 So far two fan packs have arrived with postage due.  I blame the post office and their overly complicated rules.

 Letter.  Love the Falcon stationary.

 Two unfolded pocket schedules (top is front and back, bottom is inside)

 Two stickers

 Keyring

Luggage tag featuring Falcons plane

Blow Out the Candles September 1

Hall of Fame 19th century great, Jim O'Rourke was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut on this date in 1850.

For a more complete biography of Orator Jim please visit SABR.

Here are some Jim O'Rourke cards that I do not own:

The statue of Jim outside The Ballpark at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, CT

Composer Johann Pachelbel was born in Nuremberg, Germany on this date in 1953.

Most of us know Johann for this one piece:

The eldest and sadly last surviving of the Gibb brothers, The Bee Gees, Barry Gibb is celebrating his 66th birthday today.

According to Wikipedia Barry Gibb " shares the record with John Lennon and Paul McCartney for consecutive Billboard Hot 100 Number Ones as a writer with six. The book of Guinness World Records lists Barry Gibb as the second most successful songwriter in history behind Paul McCartney.