1992 Olympic Baseball First Day Cover

This First Day Cover commemorates baseball becoming an official Olympic sport for the first time in 1992. The GAMM cachet features a vintage-style two-color illustration of a baseball play at base with fielder, sliding runner, and umpire, along with historical context noting baseball's demonstration status in 1912. The 29-cent stamp depicts a modern catcher tagging a sliding runner with Olympic rings, canceled April 3, 1992 in Atlanta with a pictorial cancel showing baseball equipment and Olympic rings.

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The cachet features a two-color (blue and red) vintage-style illustration of a baseball play at a base, showing a fielder tagging a sliding runner while an umpire looks on. A blue header banner reads 'OLYMPIC BASEBALL' with a small diamond field graphic. Text explains that baseball was a demonstration sport in the 1912 Olympics and that 1992 would mark its first year as an official Olympic sport. The 29-cent USA stamp depicts a modern action scene of a catcher tagging out a sliding runner, with the Olympic rings visible. The pictorial first day cancellation shows a baseball glove, bat, and ball with Olympic rings, canceled Atlanta, GA 30304, April 3, 1992.

Mistral

This First Day Cover features a detailed cachet with a vintage two-color illustration of a baseball play at base, including a sliding runner, fielder, and umpire in blue and red tones. The stamp depicts a modern catcher tagging a sliding runner with Olympic rings, emphasizing the debut of baseball as an official Olympic sport. The postmark is a pictorial cancellation with baseball equipment and Olympic rings, dated April 3, 1992, in Atlanta, GA. The condition of the cover appears excellent, with clear and vibrant artwork, stamp, and postmark.

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