Stamp Show : Dallas 78

1978-Oct-28 Dallas Tx - Dallas 78

 

New York Mets - 1996

8.5 x 11 USPS card stock

April 1, 1996 Opening Day

St Louis Cardinals 6-7 New York Mets

Shea Stadium

StL RBI: Willie McGee (3-HR), John Mabry (2-HR), Royce Clayton

NYM RBI: Bernard Gilkey (2-HR), Todd Hundley (2-HR), Rico Brogna, Lance Johnson, Chris Jones

StL Pitching: Andy Benes (start) Tony Fossas (L)

NYM Pitching: Bobby Jones (start) Jerry Depot (W)

I am curious about the postmark, as there is no location

Show Postmark - Lisda - New York

1992-Apr-25 Bayside NY - LISDA

December 8, 1995 LISDA, Elmhurst, NY

Babe Ruth Centennial - ASDA show postmark and souvenir card

Stamp Show - American Festivals : Baseball Salute

As we open the 1988 baseball season, fans across the nation look forward to a championship year for their favorite team. For stamp collectors, baseball and other sports can be enjoyed in the quiet of a study as well as in the noise of a stadium. Colorful issues from around the world have made sports on stamps one of the hobby's most popular topics

The American Festivals - Baseball Salute

 April 1988 - Card #60

Stamp Show : Stamp Festival - New Jersey

September 8, 1989 Secaucus, NJ

Colorano Silk Cachet with official ASDA rubber stamp cachet added

Waterbury, Ct - 1867

September 9, 1867 Waterbury, Ct

crossed bats and bases fancy cancel

Several post office began using cork bottle stoppers dipped in ink to cancel postage stamps on envelopes. Eventually some of the clerks began to carve designs into the cork, including crosses, animals, geometric shapes or whatever their imagination allowed

The Waterbury, Connecticut post office was the master of this practice, creating designs for holidays and special occasions. The baseball cancel was created by postmaster John W. Hill to commemorate the Waterbury Excelsior's victory over the Naugatuck Valley Nine on July 24, 1867. Their are none to be 6 envelopes dated between September 2 and 10, 1867 to exist

John W. Hill enlisted into the service during the Civil War serving as postmaster for his regiment. On returning to Waterbury he took a job as postal clerk. Hill kept busy by creating the finest collection of fancy cancel to be used on envelopes

 Alexander cachet

Commemorative stamp show pictorial postmarks using the baseball fancy cancel

souvenir card

Waterbury Giants

Waterbury has a great history of minor league baseball going back to 1884 playing in the Connecticut state League. The Waterbury Giants were a franchise of the New York Giants from 1977-1978, participating in the Eastern League

references-links
Wikipedia - fancy cancel
Robert Siegel Auctions
Atlas Oscura
The Swedish Tiger

Roberto Clemente - 1984

Baseball Hall of Fame postcard

Pittpex `84 souvenir card

Perez-Steele postcard

Sport Editions

Babe Ruth - 1983

 

75. x 8 inch souvenir card from LISDA `83

with first day and show postmarks

ASDA Show card for LISDA '83

Lou Gehrig - 1989

Phil-Ex, Toronto show card commemorating the Canadian Baseball Stamp postmarked with the Lou Gehrig stamp

Ramsay Hunt - Houston Hobby Center (Sch179 - hand-painted)

RJG - Robert Grier (Sch279 -2 different cachets, plus many hand-painted designs)

DRC/Rick Chase (Sch82 - 7 different)

Sch# from A Checklist of the Lou Gehrig Issue, Elten Schiller, AFDCS July 1990