I went through some online newspapers and thought I would add at least a partial checklist of stamps found in the Omaha Evening Bee News from around the beginning of July 1936 into September--some are repeated in the following morning's paper. Here is what I found--please feel free to add:
- 7/03/1936: SCHOOLBOY ROWE-BASEBALL
TONY CANZONERI—LIGHTWEIGHT BOXING CHAMP
- 7/04/1936: MICKEY COCHRANE-BASEBALL
GENE SARAZEN-GOLF
- 7/06/1936: DIZZY DEAN-BASEBALL
JACK DEMPSEY- FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMP
- 7/08/1936: TRAVIS JACKSON-BASEBALL
FRANK CROSETTI-BASEBALL
- 7/09/1936: PETE FOX-BASEBALL
AL SIMMONS-BASEBALL
- 7/10/1936: BEN CHAPMAN-BASEBALL
VERNON GOMEZ-BASEBALL
- 7/11/1936: C. HUBBELL, P., GIANTS (SINGLE STAMP)
- 7/16/1936: BILLIE HALL-IOWA GOLF CHAMP
DENNY MILLER-IOWA GOLF CHAMP
- 7/18/1936: WALTER BLIVENS-AMATEUR GOLF
WALTER EMERY-AMATEUR GOLF
- 7/22/1936: BARNEY ROSS-BOXER
DICK BARTELL-BASEBALL
- 7/27/1936: HANK SEVEREID-BASEBALL
SED HARTMAN-OMAHA MUNICIPAL UNIV. COACH
- 7/28/1936: KAYE DON-SPEEDBOAT/AUTO RACER
JOHN POLISKY-COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH
- 7/30/1936: MICKEY WALKER- WELTERWEIGHT/MIDDLEWEIGHT CHAMP
DANA X. BIBLE-COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH
- 7/31/1936: CASEY STENGEL-BASEBALL MANAGER (VERTICAL STRIP)
MORRIE SCHLAIFER- BOXING
- 8/01/1936: BILL ROGELL-BASEBALL
JACK SHARKEY: BOXING (VERTICAL STRIP)
- 8/07/1936: CHARLEY GELBERT-BASEBALL
JOE MEDWICK-BASEBALL
- 8/12/1936: FIELDING YOST-MICHIGAN A.D.
HEINIE MANUSH-BASEBALL
- 8/13//1936: JOHNNY RISKO-HEAVYWEIGHT BOXER
SAM PARKS, JR.-GOLFER (NATIONAL OPEN CHAMP 1935)
- 8/14/1936: ALVIN CROWDER-BASEBALL
JESS WILLARD-FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMP
- 8/15/1936: JOHNNY REVOLTA-GOLFER
JOE SULLIVAN-PITCHER
- 8/19/1936: JIMMY THOMSON-GOLFER (APPEARS IN MORNING PAPER NEXT DAY)
ELON HOGSETT-BASEBALL
- 8/21/1936: PAT MALONE-BASEBALL
LEROY PARMELEE-BASEBALL
- 8/27/1936: A.A. STAGG-COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH
GIL DOBIE-COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH
- 9/01/1936: RED GRANGE-FOOTBALL
BO M’MILLIN-COLLEGE FOOTBALL
- 9/01/1936am: JOCK SUTHERLAND-COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH (PITT)
GAR DAVIDSON-COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACH (ARMY)
- 9/04/1936: LOU GEHRIG- BASEBALL (SINGLE STAMP)
- 9/10/1936: CHARLEY GRIMM-BASEBALL MANAGER (SINGLE STAMP)
- 9/24/1936: LESTER M’DONALD-COLLEGE FOOTBALL (SINGLE STAMP)
And here is one of interest:
edited to add: Just noticed that Lou's bio says he is single and living with his parents, which had not been true for nearly three years when this stamp was published.
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If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. - Ulysses S. Grant, military commander, 18th US President.
Last edited by nolemmings; 01-01-2023 at 06:44 PM.
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