Legends of Baseball : All-Century Team - 2000

Softball - 1995 Recreational Sports

USPS Commemorative Panel

USPS Souvenir sheet

Art craft

Postal Commemorative Society

Postal Commemorative Society - Gold Replica

Bevil cachet #/125

CCC

House of Farnum

Artmaster

These stamps showcase five recreational sports played by millions from the serious competitor to the amateur. 

Softball was invented in 1887 in Chicago, credited to George Hancock, to be played as an indoor variation of baseball. The ball used was softer than a baseball. A tournament held at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair spurred interest in the game. The Amateur Softball Association of America would be founded in the same year.

Softball today played with variation of Fast-pitch, slow-pitch and modified has gone beyond the realm of just being a recreational sport. Softball made it's Olympic debut in 1996 Atlanta.

Softball is played in over 100 countries around the world. The European Softball Federation was formed in 1976

Baseball Sluggers - 2006

Mystic Stamp Company, Camden, NY

Postal Commemorative Soceity

RC Graebner Chapter AFDCS

2006-Jul-15 Bronx NY

Baseball's Legendary Playing Fields - 2001

Postal Commemorative Society

Gold Replica, from the Postal Commemorative Society

issued a cachet that reproduced the stamp in gold foil. A cover was produced for each stamp issue. The back of the envelope contained details about the ballpark

Negro League Baseball - 2010

Dragon Cards (Lloyd DeVries)

Art craft

Postal Commemorative Society

Therome Cachet

Collins hand painted cachet

Roberto Clemente - 1984

Robinson Stamps linoprint cachet

Bear

RDM-1 (Robert Motelow)

 Conestoga Cachets

Dome

Eastern

Postal Commemorative Society - Artcraft

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