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Before I began collecting baseball cards in 1970, I collected postage stamps. My Mom had a missionary friend in Africa and occasionally would receive mail from her and I was fascinated by the stamps. Then in July of 1969 my father called all of us children into the room to watch Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. He told us it was historic and we should see it so we watched on our little black and white tv with the coat hanger antenna and the little aluminum foil flags wrapped around the top. Soon after he sent away for a "First Day Issue" stamp commemorating the event that supposedly was stamped with ink that went to the moon. I still have it.

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I've long since given up on the stamp collection although I still have my album of stamps from all over the world mostly from the 1960s and 1970s with many older U.S. stamps. Now I only collect baseball stamps and here are some from my collection.

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1969 Ajman Hall of Fame Stamps #2 Babe Ruth (This is from the Champions of Sport collection issued by the Emirate of Ajman which is one of the United Arab Emirates located in the Persian Gulf. Others included in the set were DiMaggio, Cobb, Musial, Wagner & Sisler. Ruth is the only one I have. In 1972 Manama, the capital city of Bahrain, reissued the stamps only in different colors.)
1969 USPS Stamps #NNO Professional Baseball
1982 USPS Stamps #NNO Jackie Robinson (This stamp was released to celebrate Black Heritage. On my wall I have a limited edition lithograph of Jackie Robinson framed and signed by Christopher Paluso, the artist who did the artwork for this stamp. The stamp is also incorporated into the frame.)
1983 USPS Stamps #NNO Babe Ruth
1984 USPS Stamps #NNO Roberto Clemente

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1984 USPS Stamps #NNO Jim Thorpe (Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes of all time, an Olympic Gold medalist and a member of the inaugural class inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Here he is pictured in his football attire but he played 289 games in the Major Leagues and then continued his career in the Minor Leagues.)
1989 USPS Stamps #NNO Lou Gehrig
1988 Grenada Baseball Stamps #7 Stan Musial (Issued by the island country of Grenada in the Caribbean, this set contained 36 stamps. I have 28 of them. This one featuring Stan the Man.)
1995 St. Vincent & the Grenadines Stamps #NNO Nolan Ryan (Issued by St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a southern Caribbean nation comprising a main island, St. Vincent, and a chain of smaller islands in commemoration of Nolan Ryan's retirement. This is one stamp from a sheet of nine stamps that I have. There are one or two additional 9-stamp sheets that I do not have.)
1998 USPS Celebrate the Century Stamps #NNO Jackie Robinson (I'm not sure how many baseball stamps were part of this set which commemorated people and events throughout the century. I have one of Babe Ruth and I know there is a Roger Maris which I do not have.)
2000 USPS Legends of Baseball Stamps #2 Ty Cobb (20 Legends of Baseball appear in this set. I have the complete uncut sheet, plus each player's individual postcard as well as each player's individual stamp.)

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2006 USPS Legends of Baseball Stamps #NNO Mickey Mantle (Four players appeared in this set, Campanella, Greenberg, Mantle and Ott. I have them all and chose to feature The Mick.)
2009 USPS Take Me Out to the Ballgame Stamp (This issue commemorates the 100th anniversary of Take Me Out to the Ball Game, one of the most popular baseball songs of all time.)
2010 USPS Negro Leagues Baseball Stamps #NNO Rube Foster (I absolutely love the artwork on these two stamps celebrating the Negro Leagues and their founder, Hall of Famer Rube Foster.)
2012 USPS Major League Baseball All-Stars Stamps #NNO Ted Williams (Issued in a set of four along with DiMaggio, Doby and Stargell, though I have all four, I chose to depict the Splendid Splinter.)
2017 USPS Postage Stamps #NNO Baseball (The USPS had a ball with this set featuring eight balls, baseball, basketball, football, golf ball, kickball, soccer ball, tennis ball and volleyball. Each one is For-ever.)

If anyone has baseball stamps that I don't have, I would be willing to trade for them or even purchase them.