August 2, 1982 Cooperstown, NY
The USPS honored Jackie Robinson, the first baseball player to break the major league baseball color-barrier. Robinson was signed by Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers and Robinson reported to their minor league team the Montreal Royals in 1946. In 1947 Robinson moved up to the parent club the Dodgers.
Robinson was more than just a baseball player. He was a star athlete at UCLA, where he competed in baseball, football, basketball and track. During World War II he reached the rank of first lieutenant. Following the war he joined the Negro Leagues' KC Monarchs.
During and after his career with the Dodgers (1947-1956) he continued to be a voice of human and civil rights.
USPS Souvenir Page
Robinson Stamps linoprint cachet with official and unofficial hand cancels.
Unofficial Cooperstown postmarked cover signed by Jerry Pinkney, stamp designer
(JR-173a)
Robinson Stamps Canceled cachet (JR-173c)
Robinson Stamps Signature 1 (JR-187)
signed by Cal Abrams, Carl Furillo, Sal Maglie, Willard Marshall, Dusty Rhodes and Carl Erskine
Robinson Stamps general purpose baseball cachets
Robert Paten silk screen printed cachet (JR-154)
Wm Roy Rice linoprint cachet (JR-172)
Eltern Schiller compiled a list of cachets created for the Jackie Robinson Stamp, which was published in First Days the journal of the American First Day Cover Society. He listed 217 cachet producers, many with variations. He stated that there were more than twice the number of cachets produced than for the 1936 baseball stamp. He has listed over 39 different unofficial postmarks for the issue.
My goal is to document as many as possible...
JR# : The Jackie Robinson Issue, by Elten Schiller, AFDCS, First Days Journal
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