Baseball Stamps & Postmarks

Monday, August 14, 2017

Take Me Out to the Ballgame - 2008

Aquila Associates

Take Me Out to the Ballgame - 2008

BCG - Curt Gowdy, announcer

ACE 141 - Mickey Mantle

Freemasons - NY Yankees (Lopat, Mantle, Reynolds)

Toad Hall -Harry Caray, Cubs announcer

this issue gave cachet producers the opportunity to celebrate their favorites of the game

Take Me Out to the Ballgame - 2008

Take me out to the ball game

Take me out to the crowd

Buy me some peanuts and cracker jack,

I don;t care if I never get back

Let me root, root, root for the home team

If they don't win it's a shame

For it's one, two, three strikes you;re out

At the old ball game

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of one of the most popular baseball songs. Written by Jack Norworth the words were put to music by Albert Von Tilzer. Nor worth wrote the song after seeing a sign in a subway car advertising "Baseball Today - Polo Grounds (NY)". In the song Katie's beau calls to ask her out to see a show. She accepts, but only if they go to a ballgame instead...

Nor worth at the time had never been to a baseball game himself, nor had Von Tilzer..

The earliest recording of the song was by Edward Meeker in 1908.

The stamp was designed by Richard Sheaff, who has been a design consultant to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee since 1983...

USPS digital color postmark

(illustration by Edward Penfield)

From US Postal Service Art Director Richard Sheaff's site "Sheaff: ephemera" above are a couple of unused designs for the Take Me Out to the Ballgame stamp

As Mr Sheaff states, multiple possible designs are presented for discussion and consideration, and some other - often better - concept may be chosen...

1908 sheet music

Wikipedia

Sunday, August 13, 2017

Hank Aaron - 715 Hrs

1974-Apr-08 Atlanta, Ga and Baltimore Md

1974-Oct-02 Atlanta, Ga

1982-Aug-01 Cooperstown, NY

1990-Jan-09 Cooperstown, NY

1994-Apr-08 Atlanta, Ga - 25th Anniversary

1999-Apr-08 Atlanta, Ga

Hank Aaron - right fielder for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers, 1954-1976. Hammerin' Hank held the Major League record for career home runs when he surpassed Babe Ruth on April 8, 1974 to hit his 715 home run off Al Downing of the Los Angeles Dodgers in the fourth inning in Atlanta. Aaron would hit his 733 on October 2, 1974, in his farewell game with the Braves. However Aaron decided not to retire and was traded to the Brewers so he could finish his career in the city he started in. Aaron would finish with a career total of 755 home runs, a record which stood for 33 years...

1973.08.11

Aaron received an outpouring of public support in response to the bigotry, hate mail and threats he received. Charles Schulz in his Peanuts cartoon, August 1973 saw Snoopy attempt to break Ruth's record and in turn receives hate mail. Snoopy would fall one home run short, as Charlie Brown gets picked off of first with Snoopy at bat..

1982 Hank Aaron was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame

Hank Aaron stationery

Wilkinsburg Stamp Club

April 25-26, 1970

Baseball Quads of 69

parody stamps - show souvenir sheet

Philadelphia Phillies

1983-May-01 Veteran's Stadium, Philadelphia, Pa

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Phillies ball club.

1984-Aug-25 Philadelphia, Pa

Commemorating the Philadelphia Hall of Fame

The Hall is actually a Wall of Fame were plaques honoring members of the Philadelphia Phillies and Athletics are hung. Currently the plaques hang in Ashbury Alley.

The first inductees were Robin Roberts and Connie Mack in 1978. The above cover commemorates the induction of Jim Bunning and Jimmy Dykes.