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
