All-Star Game - 1995 Arlington

 

1995-July-11 Arlington Tx - The Ballpark in Arlington

National League 3-2 American League

MVP: Jeff Conine - Florida Marlins

Ceremonial First Pitch: Nolan Ryan

Wild Horse Cachet - Hand painted cachet of Hideo Nomo

Wild Horse Cachet is Warren Reed

Reed has produced many cachets for various subjects, but baseball and sports are very popular among his work. Many covers can be found on eBay or check out his site

Barry Bonds

Wildhorse commemorative hand painted cachet - 1992 Olympic Baseball first day cover

2001-October-05 San Francisco, Ca - Pacific Bell Park

Los Angeles Dodgers 11 – 10 San Francisco Giants

Bonds hits HR # 71 

LAD RBI: Gary Sheffield 4 (HR); Marquis Grissom 3 (HR); Chan Ho Park 2; Paul Lo Duca; Shawn Green (HR)

SFG RBI: Eric Davis 3; Jeff Kent 3; Rich Aurilia 2 (HR); Barry Bonds 2 (2HR)

LAD pitching: Chan Ho Park (4-innings) Giovanni Carrara (W 2-innings)

SFG pitching: Tim Worrell (L 1-inning)

PMW-B96 #/27

PMW-B97 #/13

2004-September-17 San Francisco, Ca - SBC Park

San Diego Padres  1 - 4  San Francisco Giants 

SDP RBI: Rich Aurilia

SFG RBI: J.T. Snow; A.J. Pierzynski; Marquis Grissom; Barry Bonds (HR)

SDP pitching: Jake Peavy (L 7-innings)

SFG pitching: Noah Lowry(w 6.2-innings)

2007-August-10 San Francisco, Ca - AT&T Park

Pittsburgh Pirates 8 – 7 San Francisco Giants

PIT RBI: Ronny Paulino 2; Freddy Sanchez 2; Ryan Doumit; Adam LaRoche (HR); Jack Wilson; Nate McLouth

SFG RBI: Barry Bonds 3 (HR); Pedro Feliz; Ray Durham; Omar Vizquel; Kevin Frandsen

PIT pitching: Matt Morris (6-innings) John Grabow (W 1-inning)

SFG pitching: Russ Ortiz (5-innings) Vinnie Chulk (L 0.1-innings)

Barry Bonds - American baseball left fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He was a member of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1986 to 1992 and the San Francisco Giants from 1993 to 2007. Recognized as an all-around player and a prolific home run hitter

August 7 2007, at AT&T Park in San Francisco, Bonds hit a 435 foot home run, his 756th, off a pitch from Mike Bacsik of the Washington Nationals, breaking the all-time career home run record, formerly held by Hank Aaron (contradicting the date of the postmark)

Despite his accolades, Bonds led a controversial career, notably as a central figure in baseball's steroids scandal

Texas Rangers

April 8, 1991 Arlington, Tx - opening day

The Rangers lost 5-4 to the Milwaukee Brewers at Arlington Stadium

Nolan Ryan took the loss pitching 7 innings. Mark Knudson earned the victory pitching 5.1 innings

Milwaukee RBI: Robin Yount 2 (Home Run), Gary Sheffield, Paul Molitor, Franklin Stubbs

Rangers RBI: Kevin Reimer 2 (Home run) Ruben Sierra (Home Run) Rafael Palmer (Home Run)

October 1, 1993 Arlington

Kansas City Royals  0-2  Texas Rangers

TEX RBI: Rafael Palmeiro; Juan Gonzalez (HR)

KCR pitching: David Cone (L complete game)

TEX pitching: Roger Pavlik (W 8-innings)

October 3, 1993 Arlington, Tx

Final Game at Arlington Stadium

Kansas City Royals 4-1 Texas Rangers

KCR RBI: Greg Gagne 2 (HR); Gary Gaetti 2 (HR)

TEX RBI: Doug Strange

KCR pitching: Kevin Appier (W 8-innings)

The Rangers finished their season with a 86-76 record (2nd place)

April 1, 1994 Arlington, Tx

The first game played by the Texas Rangers in the newly constructed "The Ballpark in Arlington" as played on April 1, 1994 when the Rangers faced the New York Mets in an exhibition game. The first official game would be played on April 11 against the Milwaukee Brewers

April 3, 1994 - Upper Deck Heroes of Baseball

April 1, 1997 Arlington, Tx - opening day (Wild Horse cachet)

The Rangers defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-2 at The Ballpark at Arlington

Rangers RBI: Damon Buford (Home Run), Lee Stevens (Home run(

Milwaukee RBI: Jose Valentin, Dave Nelson

Winning Pitcher: Ken Hill (8 innings)

Losing Pitcher: Ben MacDonald (7 innings)

The Texas Rangers moved to Arlington Texas in 1971, when the Washington Senators, established in 1961 relocated to Texas. The team name is taken from the famous law enforcement agency.

Hall of Fame - 1994 : Rizzuto, Carlton, Durocher

July 31, 1994 Cooperstown, NY

Induction of Steve Carlton, Phil Rizzuto, Leo Durocher

Wild Horse hand painted cachets

Baseball Hall of Fame official cover

produced by Jack London Graphics, Ltd

cover art by Dick Bobnick - edition of 2,500

Ford Frick Award - Bob Murphy

Celebrate the Century - World Series Rivals

D Curtis linoleum block printed #/14

 Dragon card

Wild Horse handprinted #/95 

Fleetwood cachet - artist: Paul and Chris Calle

1950s Celebrate the Century - - 1999-May-26 Springfield MA

Cleveland Indians

July 31, 1992 30th Anniversary of the Inaugural game played at Cleveland Municipal Stadium

The Indians lost to the Philadelphia Athletics 6-4. The previous day the Indians defeated the Boston Red Sox at League Park

October 3, 1993 Last Game played at Cleveland Stadium

Gateway cachet

April 4, 1994 Opening Day

April 4, 1994 Opening Day, Findlay Oh

Carlos Delgado ACE 20 (AFDCS Art Cover Exchange member)

Indians defeat the Seattle Mariners 4-3

March 1, 1997 Winter Haven, Fl

Spring Training Home of the Indians

Wild Horse cachet

April 11, 1997 Jacobs Field, Cleveland, Oh

Indians defeat the Anaheim Angels 15-3

Chad Ogea picked up the win, Mark Gubicza the loss

Indians RBI: Omar Vizquel 4, Kevin Mitchell 3 (home run), Manny Ramierez 3 (home run), Jim Thome 2, Marquis Grissom 2, Julio Franco 

Angels RBI: Jorge Fabregas 3

October 21, 1997 Cleveland Indians World Series

The 1997 Indians finished with an 86-75 record, finishing first in the Central Division. They would defeat the NY Yankees in the Division Series and the Baltimore Orioles in the ACLS.

The Indians would become the first team to lose the World Series to the Florida Marlins after leading in the ninth inning of the seventh game. The Marlins would tie the game and win on an 11th inning run by the Marlins.

April 10, 1998 Home Opener

After 8 games on the road compiling a 7-1 record the Indians opened at Jacobs Field against the Anaheim Angels.

The Indians would defeat the Angels 8-5, with RBIs from Jim Thome, Omar Vizquel, Shawon Dunston, David Justice and Travis Fryman. Jim home hit a 3-run home run in the 10th inning.

The Angles scoring came from RBIs by Cecil Fielder, Garret Anderson, Norberto Martin and Jim Edmonds.

Eric Plunk took home the win and Troy Percival the loss

February 28, 1998 Winter Haven, Fl

Spring Training pictorial postmark

March 13, 1999 Winter Haven, Fl

Spring Training pictorial postmark

April 14, 2000 Cleveland, Oh - Opening Day

Texas Rangers defeat the Indians 7-3

April 2, 2001, Cleveland, Oh - Opening day

Cleveland home opening day postmark, designed by Carlos Delgado, ACE 20 - hand made envelope, photocopier print.

Chicago White Sox defeat the Indians 7-4

Nov 17, 2001 Elyria Oh

Black River Stamp Club Local Post

100 Years of Baseball in Cleveland

Cleveland Indians - have a long standing history going back to 1894 when the Grand Rapids Rustlers were formed in Michigan as part of the Western league. In 1900 the team moved to Cleveland and played as the Cleveland Lake Shores. When the American League formed the team was renamed the Cleveland Bluebirds. The name was often shortened to the Blues, and the players unhappy with the name tried to have the team renamed the Cleveland Broncos, in 1902, which did not stick.

When Napoleon Lajoie left Philadelphia to play for Cleveland, the team name became the Cleveland Napoleons (shortened to the Cleveland Naps).

After Lajoie left the team in 1915, the team was renamed the Indians, a reference to the Cleveland Spiders (1887-1899) who were called the Indians when Louis Sockalexis, a Native American played for the team