B'nai B'rith honors Jewish baseball stars—1992 Olympics Baseball stamp

This First Day Cover from B'nai B'rith Philatelic Service features a striking black-and-white photograph cachet of Sid Gordon in batting stance, honoring Jewish baseball legends including Gordon, Moe Berg, Sandy Koufax, and others. The cover is franked with the 29-cent 1992 Olympics Baseball stamp (Scott #2619) and cancelled in Atlanta on April 3, 1992 with a pictorial design showcasing a baseball glove, ball, bat, and Olympic rings. The cover includes two-page typewritten filler on the history of Jews in Baseball.

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The cachet features a black-and-white photograph of Sid Gordon in a batting stance, with the title 'Sid Gordon' printed above. The descriptive text below the photo notes that B'nai B'rith Philatelic Service honors Baseball's Jewish stars including Sid Gordon, Moe Berg, Sandy Koufax, and others. The stamp is a 29-cent USA Olympics Baseball stamp (Scott #2619) depicting a catcher tagging out a sliding runner in colorful artwork. The pictorial First Day of Issue cancellation features a baseball glove, ball, bat, and Olympic rings design, cancelled in Atlanta, GA 30304 on April 3, 1992. The cover includes a two-page typewritten filler on 'Jews in Baseball.'

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This First Day Cover features a black-and-white photographic cachet of Sid Gordon, a Jewish baseball player, in a batting stance. The cachet includes printed text honoring Jewish baseball legends such as Sid Gordon, Moe Berg, Sandy Koufax, and others. The cover is franked with a single 29-cent 1992 Olympics Baseball stamp (Scott #2619) and is cancelled with a pictorial postmark from Atlanta, GA, dated April 3, 1992, featuring a baseball glove, ball, bat, and Olympic rings. The cover includes two pages of typewritten text detailing the history of Jews in baseball.

(The automatic summaries sometimes misidentify the postmark as part of the cachet artwork.)