WASHINGTON (AP) — Baseball Corridor of Famer Willie Mays and longtime Tennessee girls's basketball coach Pat Summitt can be honored with stamps subsequent 12 months, the U.S. Postal Service introduced Monday.
Mays, who died in 2024 at age 93, was a 24-time All-Star and two-time Nationwide League Most Invaluable Participant.
His stamp, designed to seem like a baseball card, will function a portrait of Mays with the New York Giants and an inset picture of the outfielder making his well-known, over-the-shoulder catch of a drive by Cleveland's Vic Wertz within the 1954 World Collection opener. Mays batted .301 with 660 homers and 1,909 RBIs from 1951-73.
The orange background refers to a coloration of Mays' groups, the New York and San Francisco Giants and the New York Mets. It will likely be the fiftieth stamp of the USPS's Black Heritage sequence and was designed by Antonio Alcalá, an artwork director of the USPS.
Summitt, who died in 2016 at age 64, led Tennessee to eight NCAA championships and compiled a profession file of 1,098-208 from 1974-2012. Her stamp options an oil-on-primed-linen portrait created by Roberto Parada. It was designed by Ethel Kessler, an artwork director for USPS.
Summitt is within the Naismith Basketball Corridor of Fame and the Girls's Basketball Corridor of Fame.
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