Friday, November 2, 2018

World Baseball Championships : 1988












The 1988 Baseball World Cup - Italy August 23 - September 7. Prior to 1988 the tournament was called the Amateur World Series

In commemoration of the XXXth World Baseball Championship, the Italian Federation of Baseball and Softball commissioned postmarks for each of the Italian team games. The postmarks notes the team Italy played against. The set consists of 13 commemorative postmarks and one machine postmark that saw everyday use

Cuba would win the tournament with the USA in second and Taiwan in third. The host team Italy would finish in 9th place


Italian Postal Cancels by Gino Tognellini
Sports Philatelist International Journal

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