Bret Saberhagen

1985-Sep-30 Kansas City, Mo

California Angels 1-3 Kansas City Royals

Angels RBI: Doug DeCinces

Royals RBI: George Brett 2 (HR); Jim Sundberg (HR)

Pitching: John Candelaria - Angels L; Saberhagen - Royals W (20-6)

1985-Nov-11 New York, NY

Cy Young Award

Bret Saberhagen - Kansas City Royals (20-6)

1991-Aug-26 Kansas City, Mo

No-Hit Game (5 strikeouts, 2 walks)

Chicago White Sox 0-7 Kansas City Royals

Royals Stadium

KCR RBI: Todd Benzinger 3; George Brett; Bill Pecota; Jim eisenreich; Kirk Gibson

 Brett Saberhagen

Kansas City Royals (1984-1991) New York Mets (1992-1995)

Colorado Rockies (1995) Boston Red Sox (1997-1999, 2001)

• Win-Loss: 167-117
• ERA: 3.34
• Strikeouts: 1, 715
• 3-time All-Star
• World Series Champion: 1985
• 2-time AL Cy Young Award: (1985, 1989)
• World Series MVP: 1985
• Gold Glove Award: 1989
• MLB Wins leader: 1989
• Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year Award: 1998
• Tony Conigliaro Award: 1998
• Kansas City Royals Hall of Fame: 2005

1988 - Grenada

1990 - Comoro Islands

Bret Saberhagen and Kevin Mitchell souvenir sheet

Baseball Is My Life

Stamp Show - SEPEX

April 15, 1989 Columbia, SC

SEPEX '89 - signed by Enos Slaughter

Columbia Philatelic Society

Chicago Cubs - National League Playoffs

 

1989-Oct-04 Chicago, Ill

Notarized postcard to indicate that dirt from Wrigley field was applied to the postcard obtained during the 1989 National League Playoffs. 

This was part of a large auction lot of Cubs memorabilia

front of the Designer Prints postcard

Chicago Cubs - 1988 : First Night Game

Aug 8, 1988 pictorial postmark commemorating the Cubs first night game

1988-Aug-09 Wrigley Field - Chicago, Ill

The first Chicago Cubs night game was scheduled to be played on Aug 8, 1988 abasing the Philadelphia Phillies. The Cubs were the last team to install lights at their field. Owner Philip Wrigley had planned to install lights in 1942, but plans were put on hold due to World War II. It would take the Cubs 46 years to play that initial night game

The game started and both teams played until a summer downpour ended the game. The Cubs were leading 3-1. The game was called and the first night game would take place the following night, Aug 9 with the New York Mets coming to town. The Cubs would defeat the Mets 6-4 before 36, 399 fans

The game scheduled for Aug 8, would be made up on Sept 5, as part of a double-header. The Phillies defeated the Cubs 4-3

Chicago Cubs - 1939 Baseball Centennial

1939-Jun-12 Cooperstown, NY

unofficial first day cancel, signed by 14 members of the 1939 Chicago Cubs, The starting 9 on the front, with an additional 5 on the back

Found at Lofty auction site

Lofty

Providence Grays

1987-September-19/20 Warwick, RI - RIPEX

 The Providence Grays were a National League team, playing in Providence, Rhode Island from 1878 - 1885. The team played at Messer Street Grounds, winning the National league title in 1879 and 1884.

Following the 1884 season they won the first World Series over the New York Metropolitans of the American Association

9th South Pacific Games : 1991

June 26, 1991

9th South Pacific Games

designer David Delany-Savi Associates/T.J. Sipa

The South Pacific Games are a regional sporting event contested by members of the island countries in the South Pacific every 4 years. The inaugural games were played in 1963. 

18 sporting events were contested: Softball, Soccer, Boxing, Basketball, Golf Athletics, Swimming, Netball, Table Tennis, Weight-lifting, Board Sailing, Bowling, Tennis, Volleyball, Rugby-Union, Cricket, Squash and Hobie-Cat

Stamps: Softball, Cricket, Athletics, Rugby

 

Konni Mac - Roy Campanella

2021 - Konni Mackenzie

sketch by S. Preston

I have the fortune to attend NY Comic Con. This year I came across the booth of S. Preston, a fantastic artist who creates minimalist stadium art and ballpark princesses. He was kind enough to draw his new original character that he hopes will help promote baseball to the girls who go to the game with their dads.

I am sure she will be affectionally called Konni Mac!

Check out his work

S. Preston

Milwaukee Brewers - Tosapex show cover

Oct 22, 1983 Wauwatosa.Wi 

Tosapex Station - the 18th annual exhibition of the Wauwatosa Philatelic Society honors the 1982 American League Champion - Milwaukee Brewers

The exhibition was held Oct 22-23, 1983

Backyard Games - 2021

August 12, 2021 Rosemont, Il

Eight sport stamps feature sports/games played simply for the fun of it: horseshoes, bocce, frisbee, croquet, pick-up baseball, tetherball, badminton, cornhole. The design by Mike Ryan using original illustrations by Mick Wiggins, feature a simplified style emphasizing the movement of the games, to suggest the carefree hours of summertime play

USPS official digital color and black and white first day postmarks

September 11, 2021 Norwalk, Ct

The Norwalk Stamp Club utilized sports related paintings by 1930s Norwalk artist George Avison to be used as their cachet. The sports covered were baseball, basketball (Sept 10) and football (Sept 12)

The covers feature the Oyster Festival Sporting Station postmark, with a baseball "pearl" in the oyster for the Sept 11 postmark, the other days feature the sport appropriate ball in the oyster

Norwalk Stamp Club

Stamp Show - Walcopex : Wisconsin

1983-Jul-06 Chicago (1982 Walcopex cachet)

1983-Sep-18 Elkhorn Wi - Walcopex Sta

1984-Aug-17 Carolina, PR - Walcopex - Clemente FDC

1989-Jun-10 Cooperstown NY

1989-Sept-17 Lake Geneva, Wisconsin - Walcopex Sta

Hall of Fame - 2021: Jeter

National Baseball Hall of Fame

2021-Sep-08 Cooperstown NY

Derek Jeter

New York Yankees 1995-2014

 

Hall of Fame - 2021: Jeter, Walker, Simmons, Miller

 

Original postmark design with the date of induction as July 25, 2021.

On August 12, a correction was issued by the USPS indicating the correct date as September 8

Derek Jeter - New York Yankees 1995-2014

Larry Walker 1989-2005

Montreal Expos, Colorado Rockies, St Louis Cardinals

Ted Simmons 1968-1988

St Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, Atlanta Braves

St Louis Cardinal Hall of Fame, Milwaukee Brewers Wall of Honor

Marvin Miller

Executive Director, Major League Baseball Players Association

Gameday Postmark - This Day in Baseball

1928-Aug-24 New York - Yankee Stadium

The St Louis Browns met the New York Yankees in a rescheduled double-header

Game 1: rescheduled from Aug 23, 1928 (rain)

StL Browns 5 - 2 NY Yankees

Browns RBI: Red Dress 2, Heinie Manush, Beauty McGowan, Wally Schang (HR)

Yankees RBI: Lou Gehrig 2

Yankees doubles: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig

Winning pitcher: General Crowder - 9 innings

Losing pitcher: Wally Pipgras - 8 innings

Game 2: rescheduled from Aug 22, 1928 (rain)

StL Browns 3-1 NY Yankees

Browns RBI: Otis Brannan, Fred Schulte

Yankees RBI: Tony Lazzeri (HR)

Winning pitcher: George Blaeholder - 9 innings

Losing pitcher: Fred Heimach - 9 innings

Toronto Blue Jays

April 9, 2001 Canada Post first day cover

Toronto Blue Jays were founded in 1977, originally playing at Exhibition Stadium. The team color, blue is the traditional color of Toronto's collegiate and professional sport teams, including the NHL - Maple Leafs and the CFL- Argonauts. The Blue also references the original team owners Labatt Brewing Co., producers of Labatt's Blue

The Jays played their inaugural game on April 7, 1977 against the Chicago White Sox before a home crowd of 44,649. A minor snowstorm hit the stadium just before the game started, but the Jays would still go on to defeat the White Sox 9-5 powered by Doug Alt's 2-home runs

1986 - Blue Jays 10th Anniversary

1991 - All-Star Game

2014

Faux-stamps from the artist Shelina Pachai's Twitter

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

 

Bancroft, Iowa

July 1, 2006 Bancroft, Iowa

Bancroft, Ia, established in 1881,  is a small town built on agriculture and family owned businesses. Located 16 miles north of Algona, Bancroft serves as a hub for the northern part of Kossuth County

Bancroft Memorial Baseball Field, 1948, has been home to many high school state championship teams. The field serves as home for the Bancroft Bandits of the Pioneer Summer Collegiate Baseball League