Legends of Baseball : All-Century Team - 2000

2000-Jul-07 Cooperstown NY

Uncle Sam Stamp Club - Troy NY

Joe DiMaggio - In Memoriam

March 8, 1999 Chicago, Il Stockyards Station

reverse: postmarked with 1969 Baseball stamp Mar 8, 1999 Chicago Il

Uncle Sam Stamp Club - Troy NY commemorated Joe DiMaggio with the 

1999-July-26 Hall of Fame Game postmark Cooperstown NY

Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 194 - March 8, 1999)

Joltin' Joe, The Yankee Clipper

Center fielder for the New York Yankees (1936-1942, 1946-1951)

Military Service- US Army Air Forces (1943-1945)

MLB record 56-game hitting streak (1941)

Baseball Hall of Fame (1955)

MLB All-Century Team (2000)

NY Yankees Retire Jersey #5 (1952)

2-time AL RBI Leader (1941, 1948)

2-time AL Home Run leader (1937, 1948)

2-time AL batting champion (1939, 1940)

3-time AL MVP (1939, 1941, 1947)

13-time All-Star

9-time World Series Champion

MLB Career:

Batting Ave .325

RBI: 1,537

Home Runs: 361

Hits: 2,214

Hall of Fame - 1999 : Yount, Cepeda, Ryan, Brett

Jan 5, 1999 New York

Election to the Hall of Fame

1999 Hall of Fame Induction

July 25, 1999 Cooperstown, NY

Robin Yount, Smokey Joe Williams, Nolan Ryan, George Brett, Orlando Cepeda

Nestor Chylak (umpire) Frank Selee (manager)

Hall of Fame official cover, art by Kendall Bevil

limited edition to 2,500 

Uncle Sam Stamp Club - Troy NY

Dual postmarked 19990Jul-25 Cooperstown and St Vincents Grenadines

July 25, 1999 Arlington, Tx

Pictorial postmark commemorating Ryan's Induction 

Hall of Fame - 2000 : Anderson, Perez, Fisk, Sterns, McPhee

July 23, 2000 Cooperstown, NY

Induction Carlton Fisk, Sparky Anderson, Tony Perez

Bid McPhee, Turkey Stearns

Uncle Sam Stamp Club, Troy, NY

PMW B-54 #/20

2000-Jan-11 Hall of Fame Election - New York NY

Hall of Fame - 2003 : Carter, Murray

2003-July-27 Induction Day, Cooperstown, NY

Gary Carter - 1974-1992

Montreal Expos; New York Mets; San Francisco Giants; Los Angeles Dodgers

Eddie Murray - 1977-1997

Baltimore Orioles; Los Angeles Dodgers; New York Mets; Cleveland Indians; Anaheim Angels

covers from Kelly Armstrong, Wild Horse, Gateway

Uncle Sam Stamp Club - Troy NY

National Baseball Hall of Fame Official cover

art by Kendal Bevil, limited edition of 2,500

Hall of Fame - 2001 : Smith, Mazeroski, Winfield, Puckett

August 5, 2001 Cooperstown, NY

Induction of Hilton Smith, Bill Mazeroski, Dave Winfield, Kirby Puckett

art by Ken Bevil

Uncle Sam Stamp Club, Troy, New York

Kirby Puckett commemorative pictorial postmark from Minneapolis, Mn