All-Star Fan Fest : 1994 Pittsburgh

1994-July-8/12 Pittsburgh

Upper Deck All-Star Fan Fest

First Flight and Air Mail covers

US Air Mail AM 107 - Urbana

San Francisco to melbourne - Pan America FAM 14

US Airmail AM 97 - New York

baseball players above the figure skater

Bridgewater Ma - Mickey Cochrane

Fowlerville Mi - Charlie Gehringer

First flight cover is mail that has been carried on an inaugural flight of an airline, route, or aircraft, normally postmarked with the date of the flight often of the arrival destination proving it was actually carried on the aircraft and may have a special flight cachet. 

Postmaster General James A. Farley and President Franklin Roosevelt created and proclaimed a week-long event to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the inauguration of US airmail service. They saw the event as an opportunity to gain wider support and usage of the Post Office Department’s airmail service. The celebration week was preceded by the issue of a new 6c airmail stamp, the attractive bicolored eagle, Scott #C23. Farley asked that every US citizen send an airmail letter during the week. The slogan was “Receive To-morrow’s mail today.”

Some of the cachets promoted the city's connection to baseball

Leaf Pearl Multisport Cards : 2021-2022 Cut Signatures

1/1 Gabby Hartnett taken from a 1939 Baseball first day cover

2/4 Joe DiMaggio taken from a 1985 commemorative cover

2021-2022 Leaf Pear Multi-Sport cards - authentic cut signatures featured in the collection include cut signatures taken from checks, letter, photographs and the above two taken from a first day cover and a commemorative event cover

 

Cuba - Stamp Exhibition : 1982 Deporfilex

XIV Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Havana, Cuba from August 7 to August 18, 1982, and included 2,420 athletes from nineteen nations competing in 25 different sports. The host city was Havana, Cuba 

World Stamp Expo 2000

 

North Korea

Germany - Soccer stamp with baseball cachet

World Stamp Expo 2000 opened on July 7, 2000. Held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, the show ran from July 7 to 16, 2000. A total of 26 postal administrations and 107 vendors participated in the show, which planners said would “be one of the most extensive and exciting events of the new millennium.”

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

 

Hall of Fame - 1998 : Doby, Sutton, McPhail, Davis, Rogan

July 26, 1998 Induction Day, Cooperstown, NY

Lee McPahil, Larry Doby, Don Sutton, Bullet Rogan, George Davis

July 27, 1998 Cohoes New York

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

1952- Stan Musical - Biggies meter

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