08/23: Mantle to be Honored with Stamp
Posted by: Patrick
Thanks to some campaigning, Mickey Mantle will be featured on a stamp:
Who knew that you had to be dead for ten years to be honored on a stamp?
Via Off the Facade.
Former state legislator Marv Diemer's five-year, one-man drive to get a U.S. postage stamp honoring baseball great Mickey Mantle has finally paid off.
Diemer was informed by U.S. Postal Service officials this week that the New York Yankee center fielder's likeness will be issued in a 2006 "Big Hitters" stamp series honoring four other baseball Hall of Fame sluggers: Hank Greenberg of the Detroit Tigers; Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella; and Mel Ott of the New York Giants. ...
Letters of support came from a wide range of people, including the vice president of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.; several of Mantle's Yankee teammates, including Hall of Fame pitcher Whitey Ford, catcher John Blanchard, second baseman Bobby Richardson, outfielder Hank Bauer and third baseman Clete Boyer. Support also came from U.S. Sens. Charles Grassley, Phil Gramm of Texas where Mantle lived following retirement; Don Nichols of Mantle's home state of Oklahoma; and former New York mayor Rudolf Giuliani.
Diemer, who spends his springs as public relations and information person at Hammond County Stadium in Fort Myers, Fla. where the Minnesota Twins play their spring training games, even got 1,000 Twins fans to sign a petition supporting a Mantle stamp, including a signature from Hall of Fame second baseman Paul Molitor, a Twins coach.
Diemer was informed by U.S. Postal Service officials this week that the New York Yankee center fielder's likeness will be issued in a 2006 "Big Hitters" stamp series honoring four other baseball Hall of Fame sluggers: Hank Greenberg of the Detroit Tigers; Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella; and Mel Ott of the New York Giants. ...
Letters of support came from a wide range of people, including the vice president of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.; several of Mantle's Yankee teammates, including Hall of Fame pitcher Whitey Ford, catcher John Blanchard, second baseman Bobby Richardson, outfielder Hank Bauer and third baseman Clete Boyer. Support also came from U.S. Sens. Charles Grassley, Phil Gramm of Texas where Mantle lived following retirement; Don Nichols of Mantle's home state of Oklahoma; and former New York mayor Rudolf Giuliani.
Diemer, who spends his springs as public relations and information person at Hammond County Stadium in Fort Myers, Fla. where the Minnesota Twins play their spring training games, even got 1,000 Twins fans to sign a petition supporting a Mantle stamp, including a signature from Hall of Fame second baseman Paul Molitor, a Twins coach.
Who knew that you had to be dead for ten years to be honored on a stamp?
Via Off the Facade.
