Four of Major League Baseball's most revered Hall of Famers return to
Cooperstown, NY, to a stamping ovation July 20 at the National Baseball
Hall of Fame and Museum in the form of postage where they will be
immortalized on 45-cent First-Class Forever stamps.

Appearing on the Major League Baseball All-Stars sheet of 20 stamps will
be Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees; Larry Doby of the Cleveland
Indians; Willie Stargell of the Pittsburgh Pirates; and Ted Williams of
the Boston Red Sox.


"Some of America's favorite pastimes come together with these stamps,"
said U.S. Postal Service Stamp Services Manager Stephen Kearney.
"Writing letters, collecting stamps, and, of course, playing and
watching baseball are all important elements of our Nation’s culture and
history. We are honored to be able to commemorate four of baseball’s
most important players. Fans of these Hall of Famers and their teams
will enjoy rooting for them once again by using and collecting these
cool stamps."


The stamps were designed by artist-illustrator Kadir Nelson of Los
Angeles and are based on historic photographs. Phil Jordan of Falls
Church, VA, served as art director.

nice looking stamps, but why Americans concentrate so much on domestic teams, rather then national team. does Baseball also have World Cup type of Event who is running champion?

Baseball, Basketball (you guys have NEVER thanked us for that one!), Hockey, etc... all of them are predominantly regionally based. Hockey does have national teams for which Canada participates religiously at all levels and so does the United States. As for a world cup type of event for baseball or basketball, I have no idea. Hockey there are numerous cups.

RossTo we as nation dont like baseball a lot perhaps most of us dont even knew anything about base ball etc. we are a nation of "cricket"

Baseball is known as "America's Pastime". Children play t-ball first at about the age of 4 or 5 years old... then onto softball and then boys move onto baseball and girls continue to play softball. With me so far?

A boy may play baseball well and eventually find himself in the "Major League" or MLB (Major League Baseball). There are ... I forget exactly... about 30 baseball teams... even in Canada. Pretty much the same thing with baseball.

The MLB team that wins the World Series (a best of 7 games) is the "world" champion.

I kind of think that sucks because there's really good baseball outside the US and Canada... most notably most all Latin American countries especially Cuba as well as good ball in Japan and Korea as well.

My apologies there aamer... my comment there was directed to the yanks in the audience, Basketball is a huge sport down there and they have yet to thanks us for giving it to them. Strangely enough the national sport here was Lacrosse for the longest time till they changed it to Lacrosse for the summer and Hockey for the winter.

RossTo seriously no need for apology. i really didn't mind and i know it wasn't directed to me , btw how many canadians and americans knew about cricket, did you guyz knew that cricket was national sport of America one in around 18th century.

Uh... hello, we are the senior commonwealth country

Oh course we know about cricket. It just isn't played over here to any serious degree.