Celebrate the Century

Celebrate the Century is a series of stamps produced by the US Postal Service commemorating the events of each decade that helped shape the United States. Each sheet featured 15 stamps honoring various aspects of American culture. Baseball played a major role in helping shape seven of these decades:

1900s - Dawn of the Century

1903 World Series

RKA cachet

comic book published by DC Comics and the USPS highlighting the stamps issued in the CTC series

This 2-page spread provides information about the 1903 World Series, along with a place to mount the stamp

1910s - America Looks Beyond it Borders - no baseball related stamp

1920s - The Roaring Twenties

Babe Ruth

Hobby Link cachet

1930s - Depression, Dust Bowl and a New Deal - no baseball related stamp

1940s - World War II Transforms America

Jackie Robinson breaks color-barrier

Doris Gold cachet

1950s - Family Fun, Suburbia and Nuclear Threats

The Shot Heard Round the World - the 1951 National League Pennant race was decided in a best of three games playoff. The New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers when, in the ninth inning of the third game, Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer.

May 26, 1999 Springfield, Ma
Robinson Stamps cachet

Mar 24, 1984 Baseball card show, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ

Guests were Bobby Thomson and Ralph Branca

Dynamite cachet

photo of NY Yankees Whitey Ford (who was not involved with the Shot heard 'Round the World)

New York Yankees v Brooklyn Dodgers 1949-1956

Fred Collins cachet

1960s - The Rebellious sixties and Man on the Moon

Roger Maris Hits 61 in 61

Artopages

Robinson Stamps

1970s - Bicentennial, Watergate and Earth Day - no baseball related stamp

1980s - Space Shuttle Launched, Berlin Wall Falls - no baseball related stamp

1990s - In the Final Decade, Cold War Ends, Economy Booms

Major League Baseball

Hobby Link