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- Circa - 2010
- Issuer - USPS
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- Size - 1" x 1.5" (single stamp)
- Face Value- .44˘ (each)
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On July 15, 2010, the United States
Postal Service issued two 44-cent
commemorative Negro Leagues Baseball
postage stamps at the Negro Leagues
Baseball Museum in Kansas City,
Missouri. The set of two stamps,
se-tent printed side-by-side, to make
one continues image, honors black
baseball players and their contribution
to the culture and history of a country
that once shunned them.
One stamp depicts the umpire giving an emphatic safe sign as a player
slide across home plate just ahead of
the tag. The other is a portrait of
Rube Foster, who formed the Negro
National League, in 1920. The backprint
on the "'Play At The Plate' stamp reads: "The negro
leagues operated across the country
from 1920 to about 1960. Drawing some
of the most remarkable athletes ever to
play baseball, the league galvanized
African-American communities,
challenged prevailing racist notions of
athletic superiority, and Ultimately
sparked the integration of American
Sport."
The backprint on the 'Andrew "Rube" Foster stamp reads: "Considered the "father" of
Negro leagues baseball, Andrew "Rube"
Foster (1879-1930) established the
Negro National League in 1920, the
first successful league of
African-American baseball teams. He
served as president of the league until
1926 and established it's slogan, "We
are the Ship, all else the sea." Kadir Nelson
is the artist for the commemorative
Negro League Baseball stamps.
Stamp Collecting Terminology: "Se-tenant" French for
“joined together.’’ Two or more
un-separated stamps of different
designs, colors, denominations or
types.
Stamp Collecting Terminology: "Backprint" printing which
intentionally appears on the back of a
stamp.
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2010 Negro Leagues
Baseball United States Postal
Stamps |
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| 'Andrew "Rube" Foster' |
'Play At The Plate' |
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Backprint on the Negro Leagues Baseball Postage Stamps |
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