Roger Maris First Day of Issue cachet, 1999 September 17

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Roger Maris First Day of Issue cachet

Date1999 September 17

DescriptionA First Day of Issue envelope titled "Celebrate the Century, Roger Maris, 61 in '61, 1961." To the left is a color image of Maris swinging a bat and below is a caption stating he hit 61 home runs in 1961, breaking the previous record set in 1927. The top right corner has a Maris stamp, 33 cents, USA. It is postmarked Green Bay, WI, Sept. 17, 1999, with a zip code of 54307. The verso gives a history of Maris' home run season.

Object numberBL-2022-00122

Publisher Mystic Stamp Company

Subject Maris, Roger, 1934-1985

Subject New York Yankees (Baseball team)

Attributes

Classificationsmanuscripts (documents)

Collection NumberBA MSS 043 Stamp collection

Dimensionsw x h: 6.5 x 3.5 in.

Copyrighthttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

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