Stamp show : NOJEX

1996-May-26 NOJEX Secaucus New Jersey

Elysian Fields

Baseball Centennial - 1939

Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ulysses Doubleday and their son Douglas Doubleday of Kalamazoo, Michigan arrive in Cooperstown Saturday June 10th or Sunday or June 11th 1939 to attend the celebration of the Cavalcade of Baseball. Since it was believed that Gen. Abner Doubleday was the inventor to baseball, his family were invited to the Centennial celebration. The Doubleday prepared envelopes with a rubber stamp cachet to document they attendance

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Marilyn Monroe - 1995

SA Sports Covers edition 95-023 - Josef Cyril artist #/50

Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson 1926 – 1962) American actress and model. Known for playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as an emblem of the era's sexual revolution. Long after her death, Monroe remains a pop culture icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her as the sixth-greatest female screen legend from the Golden Age of Hollywood

Joe DiMaggio married Marilyn Monroe at San Francisco City Hall on January 14, 1954. While Monroe and DiMaggio's marriage was brief and tumultuous, the world became captivated with the ultimate pairing of sports and cinema royalty

Many countries issued stamps in honor of Marilyn and Joe