MiLB AA-afiliates All-Star Game: 1996

1996-Jul-08 Trenton NJ

Mercer County Waterfront Park

AA-All-Star Game

National League 6-2 American League

MVP - Tom Dunwoody, Portland Sea Dogs

Participants: Todd Helton, Keith Foulke, Kevin Orie, Bubba Trammell, Russ Johnson

Tommy Lasorda - Jersey Retirement 1997

August 15, 1997 Los Angeles, Ca

Tommy Lasorda - managed the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1976 o 1996. He was inducted into the National Baseball hall of Fame as a manager in 1997. The Dodgers retired Lasorda's jersey #2 on august 15, 1997

 

World Series 2018 : LA Dodgers - Boston Red Sox

2018 World Series

2018-Oct-23:28

Boston Red Sox (4) - - Los Angeles Dodgers (1)

MVP: Steve Pearce (BOS)

 

World Series 2017 : Houston Astros v LA Dodgers

2017-Oct -27 : Nov-01 World Series

Houston Astros (4) - - Los Angeles Dodgers (3)

MVP: George Springer (Hou)

It was alleged that the 2017 Astros used technology to illicitly steal their opponents' signs and relay it to their hitters. This was later confirmed through numerous citizen sleuths, and it showed the Astros used this method throughout the 2017 season, and part of the 2018 season. MLB found the Astros used technology to cheat during their 2017 season and suspended A.J. Hinch and Astros' general manager Jeff Luhnow for one season; the Astros fired Luhnow and Hinch the same day. Alex Cora, who was the Astros bench coach in 2017 and the Red Sox manager from 2018 to 2019, parted ways with the Red Sox after the scandal broke

The Astros wore a patch during the 2017 World Series in support of Hurricane Harvey victims in Houston

Stan Musial - Restaurant

Biggie Garagnani and his brother Mike took over the Brass Key, a nightclub at 5443 Magnolia, in the late 1930s. In November of 1946, Biggie and Charles Re, his manager at the Brass Key, took over Cafe 66 at 6435 Chippewa. Stan Musial officially became Biggie's partner in January of 1949, renaming the restaurant Stan Musial and Biggie’s Steak House.

Lost tables

 

Babe Ruth : business ventures

1926

1928

Babe Ruth Home Runs postcard

Babe Ruth Candy Co - Cleveland Oh - 1929

Examples of Babe Ruth meter slogans from Sports Philatelist International July/August 1999 

Babe Ruth A Philatelic Remembrance - Norm Rushefsky

Sinclair-Babe ruth Baseball Contest radio show on CBS radio - 1937

The Babe Ruth Story - 1948

The Home Run of Hits - The Babe Ruth Story - 1950 movie promotion

Feb 4, 2015 - Algieria - World Cancer Day

Babe Ruth cachet documenting Babe's fight against his own diagnosis of cancer

 

Rookie of the Year: 1994

1994-Oct-20 NY

Rookie of the Year

Bob Hamelim 

Kansas City Royals (1993-1996) Detroit Tigers (1997) Milwaukee Brewers (1998)Hamelin won the 1994 AL Rookie of the Year Award as a member of the Kansas City Royals, when he posted a .282 batting average and hit 24 home runs with 65 RBIs during the strike-shortened season

Raul Mondesí

LA Dodgers (1993-1999) Toronto Blue Jays (2000-2002) NY Yankees (2002-2003)

Arizona Diamondbacks (2003) Pittsburgh Pirates (2004) Anaheim angels (2004) Atlanta Braves (2005)

Mondesí made the Dodgers opening day roster in 1994 and played in 112 games, hitting .306 with 16 homers, 56 RBI, and 11 stolen bases. He was selected as the National League Rookie of the Year.

Hall of Fame - 1995 : Schmidt, Ashburn, Day, Willis, Hulbert

July 30, 1995 Cooperstown, NY

Richie Ashburn, Mike Schmidt, Leon Day

Vic Willis, William Hulbert

Mike Schmidt - Philadelphia Phillies (1972–1989)

Richie Ashburn - Philadelphia Phillies (1948–1959) Chicago Cubs (1960–1961) New York Mets (1962)

1993 World Series - Toronto Blue Jays v Philadelphia Phillies

1993 World Series

October 16-23

Toronto Blue Jays (SkyDome) v Philadelphia Phillies (Veterans Stadium)

Blue Jays defeat the Phillies 4 games to 2

Paul Molitor - MVP

Set of 4 labels issued by Canada Post to commemorate the Blue Jays victory

Labels were serial numbered and were available in a souvenir sheet of 4, or issued individually

Saturday Evening Post - 1915

Saturday Evening Post labels - shown in The Journal of Poster Stamp Collectors

Fall 2007 Vol II No 2

The set consisted of a sheet of 12 labels, each showing Saturday Evening Post cover art, issued in 1915. Other images show people in a row boat, boy in a football uniform, children playing in a hydrant water, family going on a picnic and other typical Saturday Evening Post art.

The Windup - cover date 1915-April-24 artist John A Coughlin

Arguing the Call - cover date 1915-July-10 artist Martin Justice

My Baseball Life - non-postage stamps

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

1939Baseball has additional information and a different version of this cover

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

Roberto Clemente - 1984

 

Roy Voctow - Honor Pioneers #7 post card

100th Anniversary of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee : 2020

2020-June-30 : This commemorative stamp for the 100th anniversary of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee includes images of three sports disciplines hosted in the early days of the Joseon Sports Society: baseball, football and tennis. From athletes in blue, red and white representing the symbol of Taegeuk and Koreans as `the people of white clothes,` you can see the value of modern sports, which served as a symbol against imperial Japan 100 years ago. We hope this commemorative stamp provides an opportunity to reflect on 100 years of proud history of sports in Korea – KoreaPost 

Baseball is My Life

MiLB - Sacramento River Cats

Sacramento River Cats July 8, 2000 Inaugural Season

August 28, 2004 Sacramento Ca

River Cats at the State Fair

The Sacramento River Cats are a Minor League Baseball team of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and are the Triple-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. Prior to 2015, the River Cats were the Triple-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics for 15 seasons. They are based in West Sacramento, California, and play their home games at Sutter Health Park which opened in 2000 and was known as Raley Field through 2019

 

Johnny Mize "The Big Cat"

John Robert Mize (1913 – 1993), "The Big Cat", professional baseball player, coach and scout. He played as a first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 15 seasons between 1936 and 1953, (St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants, New York Yankees) Mize was a ten-time All-Star 

He was selected for induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee in 1981. In 2014, he was inducted into the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum