Baseball Centennial Stamp Linprint Cachet 5 Diff Slogan CDS Factoryville, Pa - Centerfield, Ut - Umpire, Ak - Selkirk, NY - selling Pottsville, Pa

"America Prefers Base Balls To Cannon Balls" expressing America's desire in '39 to stay out of the war in Europe.

Single Commemorative Issue; # 855 3¢ Baseball Centennial Stamp with Slogan Circular Date Stamps (CDS) on Linprint Cachet, red and blue. Postmarked Cooperstown, NY 1939; matched typed addressee. Price is for 5 covers shown.

a) FACTORYVILLE PA, AUG 12 1939 - Factoryville is best known as the hometown of Hall of Fame pitcher Christy Mathewson who was born in Factoryville on August 12, 1880.

b) CENTERFIELD UTAH, JAN 23 1940 - self explanatory

c) UMPIRE ARK, JUL 18 1939 - self explanatory

d) SELKIRK N.Y., DEC 6 1939 - George Alexander Selkirk (January 4, 1908 – January 19, 1987) In 1935, Selkirk succeeded Babe Ruth as the right fielder of the New York Yankees—and also inherited Ruth's fabled No. 3 uniform (which was not retired until 1948, the year of Ruth's death).

e) POTTSVILLE, P.A. APR 16, 1941 - Pottsville's first baseball team formed in 1866, going only by the team name of Pottsville, and played the first game in the county, a matched game against Tremont, June 19, 1866. The game was played at a field in the area of Schuylkill Haven now known as "The Island."

Playing nine innings, Pottsville won, 115-5.
Cover Designer: Mr. William Wood, Kingston, N. Y. (?) Linprint
Stamp: Scott 855 - selling 3¢ Baseball Centennial
Designer: William A. Roach - Engravers: Charles A. Brooks (vignette) · J. T. Vail (lettering)

Condition: Very Good antique condition, with some age toning. Addressed.
Measurement: 6 ½" x 3 ⅝"

General Information: Postage Stamps of the United States First Issued in 1939 President: Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Postmaster General: James A. Farley Domestic Letter Rate: 3¢ per oz. - Postcard Rate: 1¢ Air Mail Rate: 6¢ per oz. - Air Mail Special Delivery Rate: 16¢ per oz. - Trans-Atlantic Air Mail : May, 1939: 30¢ per ½ oz.

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