Jim Thorpe - 1984

Don Bloom

Ex-A-Cal cachet

Don J Kapner

HM (Hank Mezzack) cachet

Tom Mulcahy cachet

Fleetwood cachet

G. Alexander

BSA-4, signed by Whitey Wietelman, who was the batboy for the Zanesville Grays in 1925. Jim Thorpe played on the Grays and is pictured in the back row. Wietelman would go on to play professionally for the Boston Braves.

unofficial B Free Franklin, Philadelphia first day postmark

Generic Philadelphia cachet from New View, Merchantville, NJ

featuring an outline of Independence Hall fill with image so f Philadelphia, including the Flyers, 76ers, Zoo, Liberty Bell, Eagles and the Phillies at the top of the image

Jim Thorpe grew up in the Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma. He attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlise, Pa, where he earned All-American honors in football. A natural athlete, Thorpe gained fame for his success in the 1912 Olympics. He played football for 6-teams in the NFL eventually serving as the first President of the American Professional Football Association, which would become the NFL. Many of the cachet designs for the Thorpe stamp issued in 1984 show him as an Olympian or football player.

Thorpe also played in baseball signing his first contract with the New York Giants in 1913 playing through 1915 and again in 1917-1919. Thorpe also played for the Cincinnati Reds in 1917 and the Boston Braves in 1919.

Above are some of the cachets that depict Thorpe as a baseball player..

additionally Collins produced a cachet for the Oklahoma stamps depicting several famous Okies, including Thorpe as a baseball player...

Jackie Robinson - 1982

Jim Riggs - Comic Cachets (JR-44)

Diamant (JR-56)

EM (Eugene & Marilyn Robinson) (JR-60)

variations- light brown 1st printing, dark brown 2nd printing, hand painted, cachets featuring various ball players: Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson, Bob Gibson, Johnny Mize, Rube Foster

GAMM - Gerry Adlman (JR-79)

Glen Cachets - Steve Popick (JR-84)

Doris Gold (JR-85)

Don J Kapner (JR-117)

LEB - Lorraine E Bailey photo cachet (JR-122)

various printings: 1st print - yellow

2nd print dark yellow, 3rd print green 

and green print on #10 envelope

Lands End #12 (JR-125)

Lorstan (JR-132)

two additional variations with Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson cachets

Bill Ressl (JR-171)

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

Babe Ruth - 1983

Centennial Covers

Don J Kapner

MWO (Martin W Overhiser)

mc cachets (Mike Caltagirone)

Selectcover

 Bonnie Oskin Sharf silk screen numbered to 200

Bonnie Oskin Sharf (distributed by Cover Outlet)

Baseball Centennial - 1939

A-281  -  855-76

Mike Sanders or  Parson FDC Service

color variations: green & brown; green & blue; blue & orange-red

A-237  -   855-55

Don Kapner cachet - (unknown in Planty)

A-295   -   855-93

unknown producer. various color combinations

A-238  -   855-56

Ed Kee cachet

Youngstown Coin Club

unlisted

A-244   -   855-62

Mahoning Valley Stamp Club

Baseball...Stamps...Autographs, Elten F Schiller, Hentzell Publications, San Diego 1982 (A-#)
Plant's Encyclopedia of Cacheted F.D.C.s, Vol IX, Mike Mellone, FDC Publishing Co, Stewartsville, NJ 1983 (p855-#)

Several of these covers are internet finds, and are posted for reference purposes