'Baseball Sluggers' Hit Grand Slam at Yankee Stadium

BRONX, N.Y., Four big bats: Mickey Mantle,

Roy Campanella, Hank Greenberg and Mel Ott

were immortalized on postage at Yankee Stadium's

home plate yesterday as the Postmaster General,

joined by the Hall of Famers' family members,

dedicated the "Baseball Slugge

commemorative stamps and stamped postal cards.

The ceremony took place before a sellout crowd

of more than 54 thousand prior

to the opening pitch of

the New York Yankees -

Chicago White Sox game.

Read the hold story Here.

http://tinyurl.com/paqpf

When FDR's Postmaster General

James A. Farley

proposed a stamp honoring baseball,

to coincide with the opening of

the Hall of Fame in 1939,

a nationwide poll of collectors voted
overwhelmingly against it.

They were over-ruled by stamp-collecting
President Roosevelt who

said through the nation's sports pages that
he wished \"every boy in America could get afirst-day cover

[stamped envelope mailed the day of issue]."

The post office at Cooperstown was swamped

with what were called "small boy orders,"

those arriving without the required

self-addressed envelope

plus three cents for the stamp.

Local postmaster Melvin Bundy honored

thousands of those requests out of his own pocket,

and US baseball stamp collecting was born.

To learn more about

Baseball Stamp Clooecting
http://tinyurl.com/ps4ft

I have got a FDC for the frist person that

can gets this right.

Which of These Major League Baseball Players

Hit More Than 240 Home Runs.

A. Roy Campanella

B. Hank Greenberg

C. Mel Ott

D. Mickey Mantle

email you answer

Budrow@Highland.Net

all so there still are covers to be won

on a lots of my

Post so read away and be sure

to try out for a cover.

Happy Stamping.