Roberto Clemente - 1984

Aristocrats

Fleetwood

Marg

Readers Digest

Stampsmith

Dragon Card

Pittsburgh GMT, green double ring cancellation

Although the Clemente stamp was issued in Puerto Rico, several enterprising cachet manufactruers made plans to have the stamps purchased in Puerto Rico and shipped to New York.  Because of these individuals stamps found their way to Cooperstown, NY, Pittsburgh, Pa and other cities. Those involved were Ron Traino (Fulton Stamp Company), Lloyd A De Vries, Bill Kreindel and Fred Solomon (Eastern Covers) and Len Sautter  

Pittsburgh had lobbied for a dual-city event and they had in mind a special Three Rivers Stadium cancel, but this did not come to pass..

Bringing Clemente Back to Pittsburgh

Lloyd DeVries, First Day Journal 1984

Professional Baseball Centennial - 1969

Sep 24, 1969 Cincinnati, Oh

The US Postal Service issued a 6c commemorative stamp to honor the 100th anniversary of professional baseball. The stamp was designed by Alex Ross of Ridgefield, Ct

The stamp was issued in Cincinnati to honor the Cincinnati Red Stockings as the first team to openly employ players. The Cincinnati Red Stockings were established in 1866 and became the first openly all-professional team by 1869. This team would dissolve and move to Boston in 1871. A new team using the name Cincinnati Red Stockings would join the National League in 1876. A third Cincinnati team would form in 1881, playing in the American Association in 1882. This team would move to the National League in 1889 and shorten their name to the Cincinnati Reds.

perforation error with first day postmark

bullseye first day postmark

B-104 Aristocrats - Day Lowry

B-105 Artcraft

B-107 Artopages

B-110 Cachet Craft

B-114 Covercraft CCC

B-116  Fleetwood

B-115  House of Farnam

B- 135 Marg

Jackie Robinson - 1982

Frank Adams (JR-3)

Ellis Animated (JR-9)

Aristocrat (JR-11)

Artcraft (JR-14)

Artmaster (JR-15)

Bazaar (JR-22) dark brown 2nd printing

First printing has light brown ink

Carrollton (JR-33)

Ed Chaczyk (JR-35) #/300

Colonial Cachets (JR-41)

Colorano Silk (JR-42)

JR# : The Jackie Robinson Issue, by Elten Schiller, AFDCS, First Days Journal

Babe Ruth - 1983

Reader's Digest

 Double Play (Replica of a Crosby Photo cachet for the 1939 Baseball issue)

Double Play

 Angela Thomas

Aristocrat

Tudor House

 Artmaster

Lou Gehrig - 1989

June 10, 1989 Cooperstown, NY

The US Postal Service honors "The Iron Horse" Lou Gehrig who played 2,130 consecutive games for the New York Yankees. Veteran designer Bart Forbes based his portrait of Gehrig on two photographs of the All-Star first baseman. The handsome, dimpled profile of Gehrig in Yankee pinstripes is taken from a picture owned by Mike Aronstein. The foreground figure of the left-handed-hitting slugger is from a 1939 photograph by Herman Seid.

Art craft cachet (Sch21)

Postal  Commemorative Society - Artcraft cachet (Sch272)

Artmaster (Sch22)

Aristocrat (Sch18)

Carrollton (Sch47)

Robinson Stamps linoprint cachet (Sch294)

signed by Hippolito Pena and Scott Bradley

Robert Patlen (Sch259 - 2 different cachets)

Sch# from A Checklist of the Lou Gehrig Issue, Elten Schiller, AFDCS July 1990

Olympic Baseball - 1992

Panda cachet

Dude - hand drawn #/27 - autographed

Aristocrat

Vargas - Velva Tone

AFDCS - Robert C Graebner Chapter #17