Showing posts with label Stan Musial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stan Musial. Show all posts

Monday, April 28, 2025

Hall of Fame - Cooperstown

Mickey Mantle - NY Yankees 1951-1968)
Hall of Fame Induction 1974
Sta Musial - StLouis Cardinals (1941-1944, 1946-1963)
Hall of Fame Induction 1969
Frank Thomas - Chicago White Sox (1990-2005) Oakland Athletics (2006, 2008) 
Toronto Blue Jays (2007-2008)
Hall of Fame Induction 2014

1994-Jul-31 Cooperstown NY
Hall of Fame Induction postmarks Steve Carlton, Phil Rizzuto, Leo Durocher

Monday, April 15, 2024

Stan Musial - Restaurant

1952- Stan Musical - Biggies meter





Biggie Garagnani and his brother Mike took over the Brass Key, a nightclub at 5443 Magnolia, in the late 1930s. In November of 1946, Biggie and Charles Re, his manager at the Brass Key, took over Cafe 66 at 6435 Chippewa. Stan Musial officially became Biggie's partner in January of 1949, renaming the restaurant Stan Musial and Biggie’s Steak House.

Lost tables

 

Wednesday, May 18, 2022

St Vincent - Hall of Fame : 1988-1989

December 15, 1988


July 23, 1989
First day covers for the St Vincent Baseball Hall of Fame series are seen with one of 2 different postmarks




St Vincent and the Grenadines, former British colony in the Winward Islands, has produced stamps since 1861. these featured the British monarchs head or the ER Mongram and crown until 1970. Stamps were then printed with "St. Vincent" until 1992 when stamps began carrying the "St. Vincent and the Grenadines" title

Since 1988 the country has been client of the Inter-Governmental Philatelic Corporation (IGPC), which has been criticized for inappropriate (stamp subjects not related to the country) and excessive issues. The IGPC represents over 70 different countries

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Greetings from America - 2006

2002-April-04 Greetings from America series
Collins cachets include legendary baseball players as part of the cachet design: Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams

2006-May-27 Wonders of America - Gateway Arch - Stan Musial


 

Monday, August 16, 2021

Stan Musial - In Memoriam

Jan 19, 2013 St louis, Mo
In Memoriam - Stan Musial
Bevil cachet

Born: November 21, 1920 Donora, Pa
Died: January 19, 2013 Ladue, Ms

St Louis Cardinals (1941-1944, 1946-1963)
.331 batting average
3,630 hits
1,951 RBI
475 home runs

24-time All-Star
3-time World Series Champion (1942, 1944, 1946)
3-time NL MVP (1943, 1946, 1948)
7-time NL Batting Champion (1943, 1946, 1948, 1950-52, 1957)
2-time NL RBI Leader (1948, 1956)
St Louis Cardinals #6 jersey retired (1963)
National Baseball Hall of Fame (1969)
St Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame (2014)

Wednesday, June 23, 2021

Champions of Sport





Manama is a township in the United Arab Emirates, one of two enclaves of the emirate of Ajman.
In 1963, Britain ceded responsibility for the areas postal systems, an American philatelic entrepreneur, Finbar Kenny, saw the opportunity to create a number of editions aimed at the lucrative collector's market and in 1964 concluded a deal with cash-strapped Ajman to produce stamps for the government - - Dunes Stamps - Wikipedia




Baseball Life - a great collection of world-wide baseball stamps

Monday, May 10, 2021

Baseball Card Show : New Jersey

1984-Feb-18 New Brunswick NJ : Darryl Strawberry (post card and cover)
1985-Jan-19 New Brunswick, NJ : Mickey Mantle - New York Yankees
1984-Feb-04 Sheraton II, Hasbrouck Heights, NJ : Joe Collins - New York Yankees
1984-Jul-14 Freehold Classic, Freehold, NJ : Stan Musial - St Louis Cardinals
1984-Jan-21 Freehold Classic, Freehold, NJ : Dave Winfield -New York Yankees
1984-Mar-24 Hasbrouck Heights-Hackensack, NJ
Guests of Honor: Bobby Thompson and Ralph Branca
1984-Nov-24 Treadway I, Saddle Brook, NJ : Al Dark - NY Giants
1985-Feb-16 Treadway II, Saddle Brook, NJ
Early Wynn - Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox
1987-Nov Cranford, NJ
baseball card show pictorial postmark
1987-Feb-08 Springfield, NJ
baseball card show pictorial postmark

photocopied examples - looking for better images