2270 BC, Louvre, traded from the Mediterranean coast where it was used by Canaanites to make a purple dye.

The following February, Favre was traded to the Green Bay Packers.

Both Johnson and Schilling had suffered injuries during the season and Schilling was traded in the off season to the Boston Red Sox where he contributed to that team's 2004 World Series victory.

Eckstein was traded from the Toronto Blue Jays for Minor League pitcher Chad Beck.

An example of the development of tank destroyer technology throughout the war are the Marder III and Hetzer vehicle, that were very different in spite of being based on the same chassis: Marder was straightforwardly an anti-tank gun on tracks whereas Hetzer traded some firepower ( its Pak 39, designed to operate within the confines of a fully-armored fighting compartment, fires the same projectiles from a reduced propellant charge compared to Marder's Pak 40 ) for better armor protection and ease of battlefield concealment.

In 1961, Sony Corporation was the first Japanese company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, in the form of American Depositary Receipts ( ADRs ), which are traded over-the-counter.

For years, it was traded privately until a ROM was made available to the general public.

Barred by a court injunction from playing baseball in the state of Pennsylvania the next year, Lajoie was traded to the Cleveland team, where he played and managed for many years.

After a poor season for Federko in 1988 – 89, he was traded to the Detroit Red Wings with Tony McKegney for future Blues star Adam Oates, and Paul MacLean.

In Europe, the major source for tin was Great Britain's deposits of ore in Cornwall, which were traded as far as Phoenicia in the Eastern Mediterranean.

British Railways ( BR ), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the operator of most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

Coarser ikat from the Lesser Sundas was traded for sago from the Kei Islands, Aru and Seram.

European control of the Bandas was contested up until 1667 when, under the Treaty of Breda ( 1667 ), the British traded the small island of Run for Manhattan, giving the Dutch full control of the Banda archipelago.

Manager Lee Fohl, who had taken over in early 1915, acquired two minor league pitchers, Stan Coveleski and Jim Bagby and traded for center fielder Tris Speaker, who was engaged in a salary dispute with the Red Sox.

Despite the fact that the Cubs had won 89 games, this fallout was decidedly unlovable, as the Cubs traded superstar Sammy Sosa after he had left the season's final game early and then lied about it publicly.

Milton Bradley was traded to Seattle in the off-season, and was replaced by Marlon Byrd and Xavier Nady as Lou Piniella entered his fourth season with the team.

On January 7, 2011, Matt Garza was traded from the Tampa Bay Rays to the Cubs as part of an eight-player deal.

Kile, who was being paid over $ 8 million for the season, struggled mightily, going 8 – 13 with a 6. 61 ERA, and he wound up being traded to the St. Louis Cardinals following the season.

Popular outfielder Dante Bichette was traded to the Cincinnati Reds.

The Rockies went 73 – 89 in both years that Hampton and Neagle were in Colorado, and the amount of money owed them ( the Rockies paid a sizable portion of Hampton's salary even after he was traded to the Atlanta Braves ) crippled the team for the next several years.

Catcher Charles Johnson, who had been acquired along with Wilson in the Hampton trade, was traded to the Boston Red Sox.

Wilson also spent time on the disabled list and, as the Rockies fell out of contention, was traded to the Washington Nationals.

Ironically, Holliday, traded from Oakland to St. Louis in July, was in the opposing dugout watching the play.

Joe Purvis was thinking back many years.

Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.

The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.

Brannon was hunkered down with his broad back to the left rear wheel, with the other two facing him.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

From the back of the barn it was a simple matter to reach Black's house without using the street.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

From the time the chocks were pulled until the plane was out of sight, he knew Donovan would keep his back to the strip.

Over the rapidly-diminishing outline of a jump seat piled high with luggage Herry's black brushcut was just discernible, near, or enviably near that spot where -- hidden -- more delicately-textured, most beautifully tinted hair must still be streaming back in cool, oh cool wind sweetly perfumed with sagebrush and yucca flowers and engine fumes.

An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.

She was standing with her back to the glass door.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.

It was nearly sundown and he went to the back of the wagon, half-swimming his way, for he was not a tall man.

The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.