1936 sports stamps

[nolemmings]

Originally Posted by seattlerainiers

The Seattle Post Intelligencer also published Sports Stamps. MLB and PCL players, along with other sports. I have a bunch of them...add me to the group that thinks they are cool!

Here's a Feller "rookie". Happy to post more.

Please do!

[Leon]

Here's a Ruth from the Omaha Bee News..

[docpatlv]

Here’s Ty from the Pittsburgh SunTelegraph. I’m sure there are others, but it’s the only Cobb I’ve seen.

[Exhibitman]

So much fun! I found this Owens recently, from LA:

[seattlerainiers]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

Please do!

Here are a handful more from the Seattle PI, including a few PCL ones (Seattle Indians, Strange and Michael), Seattle Sea Hawks hockey coach and Hockey HOFer Frank Foyston, who was a key member of the 1917 Seattle Metropolitans...first US Stanley Cup champions.

Also a different Jesse Owens from Adam's LA Examiner stamp, Ott & Hornsby, and Max Schmeling for good measure.

[jingram058]

Just got this 1936 scrapbook. Wow, it is LOADED with Baseball Sportstamps. Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Jimmie Foxx, Bill Dickey, Carl Hubbell and on and on and on. 90% The Sporting News, 10% L.A. Examiner, a great many All-Star Sportstamps. 4 are loose with clippings, never glued in. There are 60, all total. The scrapbook covers the 1936 season. I've got a ton of old scrapbooks. Never came across one like this.

[insidethewrapper]

Updated :
Does anybody have a complete list of all the newspapers which carried the "Sport Stamps" in 1936. List is now 13 !

Here's a current updated list I have ? Anymore to add to the list ?

Detroit Times
Boston American
Sunday Advertiser ( Boston ? )
Buffalo Times
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph
The Sporting News
Chicago American
Washington Herald
Los Angeles Examiner
Omaha Bee-News
Atlanta Georgian-American (Minor League)
Seattle Post Intelligencer
The San Francisco Examiner

[spec]

Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

Updated :
Does anybody have a complete list of all the newspapers which carried the "Sport Stamps" in 1936.

Here's a current updated list I have ? Anymore to add to the list ?

Detroit Times
Boston American
Sunday Advertiser ( Boston ? )
Buffalo Times
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph
The Sporting News
Chicago American
Washington Herald
Los Angeles Examiner
Omaha Bee-News
Atlanta Georgian-American (Minor League)
Seattle Post Intelligencer

The Sunday Advertiser was indeed the Sunday edition of the Boston American. Most of the newspapers on this list I recognize as part of William Randolph Hearst's publishing empire. He owned 28 major papers in 1935, and I suspect all or most Hearst papers included Sports Stamps in 1936.

[Exhibitman]

James, you lucky bastard, that is a FIND!

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

James, you lucky bastard, that is a FIND!

Thanks! For once in my life in this hobby, I think this is a find! I can't see removing these Sportstamps from the scrapbook and ruining it. Somebody took a lot of time and effort to carefully put it together. Imagine how I almost went into shock over seeing Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Jimmie Foxx, Carl Hubbell, Charlie Gehringer, Dizzy Dean, and so many others. I have a full set of All-Star Sportstamps for 1936, I think. Wow!

[Leon]

That's the kind of scrapbook we all hope to find!
Congrats!

Originally Posted by jingram058

Just got this 1936 scrapbook. Wow, it is LOADED with Baseball Sportstamps. Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Jimmie Foxx, Bill Dickey, Carl Hubbell and on and on and on. 90% The Sporting News, 10% L.A. Examiner, a great many All-Star Sportstamps. 4 are loose with clippings, never glued in. There are 60, all total. The scrapbook covers the 1936 season. I've got a ton of old scrapbooks. Never came across one like this.

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by Leon

That's the kind of scrapbook we all hope to find!
Congrats!

Thanks Leon. It means a lot to me, sir!

Do you think it is fair to say that, other than perhaps some of the special "ColorFotos", that these Sportstamps are the leading or most desirable newsprint items? It seems that clippings from newspapers just don't generate anywhere near the interest.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by jingram058

Thanks Leon. It means a lot to me, sir!

Do you think it is fair to say that, other than perhaps some of the special "ColorFotos", that these Sportstamps are the leading or most desirable newsprint items? It seems that clippings from newspapers just don't generate anywhere near the interest.

Your'e welcome. It's always fun to make small or large finds. (large ones are a little better)
I would say these stamps have generated a lot of interest over the last several years. And I guess they took off a little more when the TPG's started grading them. CGC told me, at the National, they will holder them but are still working on their larger holders.

[Exhibitman]