Baseball Stamps & Postmarks

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

San Diego Padres - 1990-1995

1990-Apr-10 San Diego - Jack Murphy Stadium

Padres maxi-card

LA Dodger 1-0 SD Padres

LAD RBI: Juan Samuel (HR)

Pitching: LAD - Tim Belcher (W 9-innings) SDP - Eric Show (L 4.2-innings)

1991-Apr-09 San Diego - Jack Murphy Stadium

San Francisco Giants 4-7 SD Padres

SFG RBI: Kevin Mitchell (2, including a solo home run) Will Clark

SDP RBI:Jim Presley; Shawn Abner; Jerald Clark; Tony Gwynn; Benito Santiago

Pitching: SFG - Trevor Wilson (L 0.1-innings) SDP - Mike Maddux (W 0.1-innings)

1992-Apr-09 San Diego - Jack Murphy Stadium

LA Dodgers 6-3 SD Padres

LAD RBI: Mike Scioscia 2 (HR); Eric Karros 2 (HR); Todd Benzinger; Brett Butler (HR)

SDP RBI: Darrin Jackson; Fred McGriff (HR); Tony Fernández (HR)

Pitching: LAD - Tom Candiotti (W 7.1-innings 7k) SDP Craig Lefferts (L 0.1-innings)

1993-Apr-12 San Diego - Jack Murphy Stadium

Padres maxi-card

Pittsburgh Pirates 4-2- SD Padres

RBI: Don Slaught; Kevin Young; Jay Bell (HR); Dave Otto

SDP RBI: Craig Shipley; Phil Plantier

Pitching: PIT – Dave Otto (W 5-innings) SDP – Greg harris (L 4.1-innings)

1994-Apr-04 San Diego - Jack Murphy Stadium

Padres maxi-card

Atlanta Braves 4-1 SD Padres

ATL RBI: Javy López; Ryan Klesko (HR); Deion Sanders (HR)

Pitching : ATL - Greg Maddux (W 8-innings 7k) SDP – Andy Benes (L 7-innings)

1995-Apr-26 San Diego - Jack Murphy Stadium

Houston Astros 10-2 SDP Padres

HOU RBIs: Jeff Bagwell 3 (HR), Dave Magaden 2, Derek Bell 2 (HR), Phil Plantier 2 (HR)

SDP RBIs: Jody Reed 2

Pitching: HOU - Doug Drabek (W 5-innings) SDP - Andy Benes (L 5-innings)

Monday, April 24, 2017

San Diego Padres

April 8, 1969 San Diego, Ca (UPCS cachet)

The Padres played their inaugural game at home against the Houston Astros.

23,370 fans at San Diego Stadium watched the Padres defeat the Astros 2-1, to start their career at 1-0.

Dick Selma pitched a complete game for the win, the Astros Don Wilson took the loss. San Diego scored their runs on an Ed Spiezo home run (1 RBI) and 1 RBI from Ollie Brown.

The lone Astros run was from a Doug Rader RBI.

April 15, 1985 (Robinson Stamps cachet)

San Diego Padres home opener against the San Francisco Giants.

The Padres defeat the Giants, with home runs from Terry Kennedy, Carmelo Martinez. RBIs - Carmelo Martinez 5, Terry Kennedy 2 and Steve Garvey 1.

Giants received a 3-RBI game from Dan Gladden

Eric Show picked up the win and Atlee Hammaker the loss

1986 Padres Maxi-Card

April 11, 1986 (Robinson Stamps cachet)

San Diego Padres take an 11-inning victory over the Cincinnati Reds at home.

Padres received home runs from Kevin McRwynolds an RBIs from McReynbolds 2, Jerry Royster and Tim Flannery 1 each.

The Reds had home runs from Dave Parker and Bo Diaz, each getting 2 RBIs

Tim Stoddard picked up the win and Ted Power the loss

April 13, 1987 (Gateway cachet)

April 13, 1987

Padres corner card (7.5x4) - signed by Manager Larry Bowa

April 13, 1987

8x5 card courtesy of Elten Schiller

The padres opened at home against the San Francisco Giants.

The Giants would win 13-6, powered by home runs from Jeffrey Leonard, Will Clark, Bob Melvin and Robby Thompson

The Padres runs came from home runs from Marvell Wynne, Tony Gwynn and John Kruk,

Jim Gott earned the win for the Giants, while Dave Dravekcy takes the loss

April 12, 1988

San Diego Padres opened at home against the Los Angeles Dodgers with a 5-3 victory

The Padres received a home run by John Kruk and RBIs from Kruk (4) and Benito Santiago (1)

Dodgers runs came from RBIs by Kirk Gibson, Mike Scioscia and Mike Marshall

Andy Hawkins picked up the win and Don Sutton the loss

1972 meter cancel

1981

San Diego Padres - 2000

April 10, 2000 Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego, Ca

The San Diego Padres opened at home against the Arizona Diamondbacks after compiling a 3-4 record on the road.

The Padres lost to the Diamondbacks 8-4

Arizona was powered by RBIs: Erubiel Durazo 4 (2home runs), Kelly Stinnett (home run), Lenny Harris, Steve Finley (home run) and Jay Bell (home run)

Padres RBIs: Phil Nevin 2 (home run), David Newhan, Wiki Gonzalez (home run)

Todd Stottelemyre picked up his second victory of the season for Arizona, Woody Williams picked up his first loss for the Padres

Sunday, April 23, 2017

Professional Baseball Centennial - 1969

1979 - the largest counterfeit first day cover operation fell apart, leading to the arrest and conviction of its creator, Jerry P Mather, under the name Gary P Westemberger, of Redondo Beach, Ca. The counterfeit covers were offered under the names Fiesta or La Fiesta, sold out of Los Angeles mailing addresses. The operation involved more than 350 different cachet designs starting with covers dated 1956 until 1979.

Mather started his operation around 1977, and was able to continue, because the cost of the covers was far less expensive than the cost of expertizing them to ensure they were legitimate. In the collecting marketplace the cachet became more important than the postmark, therefore many collectors did not focus or mind the counterfeit postmark. Although these covers are considered counterfeit, they still claim a price around $20.00, and many can be found signed by the player honored on the cachet, bringing up the value..

The operation started because Mather could not keep up with the demand for the 1977 State Flags set. To keep customers happy and maintain a never ending supply of first day covers, he created the first day postmark rubber stamp and continued to postmark his own covers.

Any covers produced by Mather prior to 1970 are counterfeit. After that some of the covers produced for specific stamp issues may be genuine.

Inspectors crack counterfeit scheme... James H Burns, Linn's Stamp News Feb 25, 1980

Story May Just be Starting for Phony First Day Covers, Joe Brocket Linn's Stamp News Jan 19, 1981

Mather Fake First Day Covers, Joe Brocket, Linn's Stamp News June 1, 1981

Mather Story Confusing, Joe Brocket, Linn's Stamp News Dec 14, 1981

Professional Baseball Centennial - 1969

Gene Michael - 1970 Topps card #114

New York Yankees

Fritz Peterson - 1969 Topps card #46

New York Yankees

Looking through auction sites, there are often Do-It-Yourself first day covers which feature baseball cads pasted to the envelope. Above are two examples of the many that can be found

Professional Baseball Centennial - 1969

Dottie Bundy hand painted cachet

signed by Chris Sabo (Cincinnati Reds 1988-1993, 1996; Baltimore Orioles 1994; Chicago White Sox 1995; St Louis Cardinals 1995)

Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame

Dottie Bundy hand painted cachet

signed by Jim Gentile (Brooklyn/LA Dodgers 1957-1958) Baltimore Orioles (1960-1963) Kansas City Athletics (1964-1965) Houston Astros (1965-1966) Cleveland Indians (1966) Kintetsu Buffaloes - Japan (1966)

Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame

e-bay find listed for reference (July 2021)