Baseball Stamps & Postmarks: Baseball Centennial

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Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Baseball Centennial - 1939

listed on e-bay as an add-on cachet (computer printed?)

Monday, April 21, 2025

Baseball Centennial - 70th Anniversary

2009-Jun12 Cooperstown NY

70th Anniversary Baseball Centennial

Bevil cachet

Monday, September 16, 2024

Professional Baseball Centennial - 1969

Roger Maris

Cy Young

Hand-painted cachets from Silverwing Cachets

Recent eBay finds

Monday, March 25, 2024

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

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Chicago Cubs - 1939 Baseball Centennial

1939-Jun-12 Cooperstown, NY

unofficial first day cancel, signed by 14 members of the 1939 Chicago Cubs, The starting 9 on the front, with an additional 5 on the back

Found at Lofty auction site

Lofty

Sunday, April 23, 2017

Professional Baseball Centennial - 1969

1979 - the largest counterfeit first day cover operation fell apart, leading to the arrest and conviction of its creator, Jerry P Mather, under the name Gary P Westemberger, of Redondo Beach, Ca. The counterfeit covers were offered under the names Fiesta or La Fiesta, sold out of Los Angeles mailing addresses. The operation involved more than 350 different cachet designs starting with covers dated 1956 until 1979.

Mather started his operation around 1977, and was able to continue, because the cost of the covers was far less expensive than the cost of expertizing them to ensure they were legitimate. In the collecting marketplace the cachet became more important than the postmark, therefore many collectors did not focus or mind the counterfeit postmark. Although these covers are considered counterfeit, they still claim a price around $20.00, and many can be found signed by the player honored on the cachet, bringing up the value..

The operation started because Mather could not keep up with the demand for the 1977 State Flags set. To keep customers happy and maintain a never ending supply of first day covers, he created the first day postmark rubber stamp and continued to postmark his own covers.

Any covers produced by Mather prior to 1970 are counterfeit. After that some of the covers produced for specific stamp issues may be genuine.

Inspectors crack counterfeit scheme... James H Burns, Linn's Stamp News Feb 25, 1980

Story May Just be Starting for Phony First Day Covers, Joe Brocket Linn's Stamp News Jan 19, 1981

Mather Fake First Day Covers, Joe Brocket, Linn's Stamp News June 1, 1981

Mather Story Confusing, Joe Brocket, Linn's Stamp News Dec 14, 1981

Professional Baseball Centennial - 1969

Gene Michael - 1970 Topps card #114

New York Yankees

Fritz Peterson - 1969 Topps card #46

New York Yankees

Looking through auction sites, there are often Do-It-Yourself first day covers which feature baseball cads pasted to the envelope. Above are two examples of the many that can be found

Professional Baseball Centennial - 1969

Dottie Bundy hand painted cachet

signed by Chris Sabo (Cincinnati Reds 1988-1993, 1996; Baltimore Orioles 1994; Chicago White Sox 1995; St Louis Cardinals 1995)

Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame

Dottie Bundy hand painted cachet

signed by Jim Gentile (Brooklyn/LA Dodgers 1957-1958) Baltimore Orioles (1960-1963) Kansas City Athletics (1964-1965) Houston Astros (1965-1966) Cleveland Indians (1966) Kintetsu Buffaloes - Japan (1966)

Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame

e-bay find listed for reference (July 2021)