Hall of Fame - 1971 Paige, Bancroft, Beckley, Hafey, Hooper, Kelley, Marquard, Weiss

 

August 9, 1971 Cooperstown, NY

The Baseball Writers' Association of America voted by mail to select from recent major league players and elected no one.

The Veterans Committee met in closed door session to select from older players, executives, managers and umpires and selected seven : Dave Bancroft (1915-1930 Philadelphia Phillies, NY giants, Boston Braves, Brooklyn Robins), Jake Beckley (1888-1907 Pittsburgh Alleghenys-Burghers-Pirates, NY Giants, Cincinnati Reds, StLouis Cardinals), Chick Hafey (1924-1937 StLouis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds), Harry Hooper (1909-1925 Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox), Joe Kelley (1891-1908 Boston Beaneaters, Pittsburgh Pirates, Baltimore Orioles, Brooklyn Superbas, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Doves), Rub Marquard (1908-1925 NY Giants, Brooklyn Robins, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Braves), George Wiess (executive)

June 12, 1979 Cooperstown, NY

Commemorating the 40-year career of Stachel Paige, who was inducted into the Hall in 1971

A newly formed committee on the Negro Leagues selected Satchel Paige (1926-1965 Chattanooga Black Lookouts, Birmingham Black Barons, Baltimore Black sox, Cleveland Cubs, Pittsburgh Crawfords, Bismarck Churchills, Kansas City Monarchs, Trujillo All-Stars, New York Black Yankees, Memphis Red Sox, Philadelphia Stars -- Cleveland Indians, StLouis Browns, Kansas City Athletics)

Steve Stone - 1981 Donruss #591 card

Do-It-Yourself cachet by pasting a card to the envelope, postmarked on the 1971 induction day 

Satchel Paige - Southeastern Stamp Expo

Feb 9, 2021 Cooperstown, NY

Southeastern Stamp Expo - honoring the 50th anniversary of Satchel Paige's election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. 

Even though the Southeastern Stamp Expo was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the covers were still produced to honor Satchel Paige. The cachet design was by PeteMcClure

Southeastern Stamp Expo

 

Jerusalem Sports and Stamp Club

John Zaso produced a line of silk and hand painted cachets. He started out as a partner of Ray Novak producing the Colorano Silk cachets. After splitting with the Colorano line, Zaso would produce many cachets for sporting events, and other non-first day covers..

These are part of a Jerusalem based series that featured both hand painted and silk cachets. I could not find too much information about these, although all of the Israeli postmark are Christmas themed. All are postmarked between 1979 and 1982.
All of these were internet finds, mostly available on eBay...

On This Day in Baseball History - TCMA

Ted Williams - managerial debut :: Chicago Cubs - Grimm and Boudreau

Johnny Pesky - 11 consecutive hits :: National league - first night game

2nd annual All-star game :: Satchel Paige - oldest pitcher

1948 World Series :: New York Mets - 1969 World Series

TCMA, Ltd, better known for their production of minor league baseball cards, produced first day covers for the baseball related issues, as well as a series of covers chronicling the history of baseball through unrelated first day covers...

Negro Leagues - 2010

Chris Calle

2010-Jul-15 Kansas City MO

Negro League Baseball - 2010

Dragon Cards (Lloyd DeVries)

Art craft

Postal Commemorative Society

Therome Cachet

Collins hand painted cachet

Jackie Robinson - 1982

Artopages (JR-16c) 

Eldon Mohler - 14 designs

Fleetwood (JR-71)

unknown

unknown

Postal Commemorative Society (JR-160)

Cover Outlet - Jerry Bowden (JR-47)

3 designs - printed brown & blue; tan & blue 2nd printing, handprinted by Geri Peltin

Great Pictures - Geri Peltin (JR-89)

3 designs brown printed; hand painted and Wespnex show cachet)

Cover Scape

Uladh Covers (JR-203)

2 designs: portrait and stealing home

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

Satchel Paige

Aug 6, 1984 - TCMA, Ltd, producer of minor league baseball cards jumped on the first day cover collecting bandwagon. The release of the Babe ruth stamp in 1983 found baseball card collectors building collections of first day covers. 

To further reach out to the baseball collector TCMA issued first day covers under the heading "On This Day In Baseball History". Each of these covers would highlight a historical baseball event that occurred on the day a particular stamp was issued, although the issuance of the stamp had no relationship to baseball.

On this day: 1952 a 46 year old Satchel Paige of the St Louis Browns beat Virgil "Fire" Trucks and the Detroit Tigers in 12 innings to become the oldest hurler to pitch a complete game or a shutout...