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JOURNAL OF
SPORTS
PHILATHY
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2001
NUMBER 1
VOLUME 40
Beijing Wins 2008 Olympic
Games!
Macau, along with the PRC and Hong Kong, wasted no time commemorating Beijing's victory.
The very next day, al three issued a common design stamp showing the Beijing bid logo.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Wisden's Five "Cricketers of the Century": Part 1
Used Long After
"Sir Walter" - Champion Golfer
Team Spirit
Baseball Card Shows: Going, Going, Gone
Peter Street
Dale Lilljedahl
Patricia Ann Loehr
Mark Maestrone
Norman Rushefsky
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REGULAR FEATURES & C O L U M N S
President's Message
2000 Sydney Olympics
The Sports Arena
Book Review: "The Forgotten Olympic Art Competitions"
Postal Stationery Corner
Reviews of Periodicals
News of Our Members
Commemorative Stamp Cancels
Mark Maestrone
Brian Hammond
Mark Maestrone
Dale Lilljedahl
Glenn Estus
Mark Maestrone
Margaret Jones
Mark Maestrone
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SPORTS
PHILATELISTS
INTERNATIONAL
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PRESIDENT:
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DIRECTORS:
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Sherwin D. Podolsky, 3074 Sapphire Avenue, Simi Valley, CA 93063
Jeffrey R. Tishman, 37 Griswold Place, Glen Rock, NJ 07452
Robert J. Wilcock, 24 Hamilton Cres., Brentwood, Essex, CM14 5ES, England
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APS Affiliate Number 39
ISSN 0447-953X
Vol. 40, No. 1
Sept.- Oct. 2001
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
by Mark Maestrone
Index to Volume 39
Some of you may have noticed that this issue
of the journal seems a bit lighter. No, you're not
imagining things, as a quick peek at the total
number of pages will reveal. This issue (and the
November issue as well) are 32 pages in length in
order to accommodate the index to Volume 39
which will be distributed in two parts of 4 pages
each. The reason: cost of mailing.
In previous years, the added weight of the
index has not presented a problem, we merely
shipped it off along with an issue of the journal.
Now with the revised USPS weight structure,
even one additional sheet of paper bumps us up
into the next rate increment - at a cost of $150!
We felt that money could be put to better use
than spending it on postage. Rest assured that our
4-page-cut will be in less read portions of the
journal such as some of our columns.
Eventually, we hope to be able to offer the
index on the web and on CD.
The president of the new society is Dr. Ernst
Schimpel. Correspondence may be mailed to the
Deputy Chief/Vice-President Ortwin Schiessl,
Lascygasse 14-16, 1170 Vienna, Austria.
In the March/April 2001 issue of
JSP
we re-
ported a new address for the Italian members of
FIPO. Their address has changed once more. All
correspondence for UIFOS should now be sent
to: C.P. 14327 Roma-Trullo, Via Lenin, 00149
Rome, Italy.
New Webmaster Needed
Immediately!
My pleas for a new SPI Webmaster have gone
largely unanswered. The Internet, while certainly
not the panacea that many in the tech world have
projected, provides a useful service. In addition to
publicizing our society, thereby gaining us new
members, our website should be a valuable
source of information. Unfortunately, it has not
even approached its potential in serving our
members and the collecting community at large.
Philatelists are among the most intelligent,
talented folks around. I would venture a guess
that plenty of members have the time, creativity,
and technical knowledge to perform this task.
Please don't wait for someone else to volun-
teer. As an old U.S. army recruitment poster read:
News From FIPO Headquarters
Our organization of Olympic and sports
philatelic societies has increased by one. On May
30, we welcomed our newest member, the
Motivsammlerverein Olympishe Spiele und Sport
(MOSA) based in Austria.
We Need
YOU
Now!
The SPI web site is located at:
http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/track/6279
Mark Maestrone: markspi@prodigy.net
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Andrew Urushima: aurushima@yahoo.com
Glenn Estus: gestus@westelcom.com
Norman Jacobs: nfjjr@mediaone.net
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Jeffrey Tishman: jtishman@aol.com
Robert Wilcock: bob@towlard.freeserve.co.uk
Margaret Jones: docj3@juno.com
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Figure 1. The five "Cricketers of the Century" as selected by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. Grenada honored
each man individually and collectively (shown here) with souvenir sheets of stamps.
Wisden's Five "Cricketers of the Century"
Parti
by Peter N. Street
ach year
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack,
the
cricket lover's "bible," selects its five crick-
eters of the year. In the 2000 edition, by
way of celebrating the end of the millen-
nium, it selected its five cricketers of the century
(Figure 1). They were Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Gary
Sobers, Sir Jack Hobbs, Sir Viv Richards and, per-
haps surprisingly, current Australian leg spinner,
Shane Warne.
Before we discuss the five cricketers in detail,
perhaps we should write a few words about John
Wisden, the founder of the
Wisden Cricketers'
Almanack.
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JOHN WISDEN
John Wisden was bom in 1826 in Brighton,
Sussex, a seaside resort on the south coast of Eng-
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land. By the tender age of 18 he was playing for the
strong Sussex XI. Called the "Little Wonder" due to
his diminutive stature (he was only 5 feet 4 inches
tall and weighted less than 100 pounds during his
playing days) Wisden started as a round-arm bowl-
er but later in his career switched to slow lobs.
(Round-arm bowling - hand to shoulder height -
was introduced in 1835. Prior to that all bowling
was underarm. Modem over-arm bowling was not
legalized until 1864.)
Although considered an all-rounder by the stan-
dards of the day (his dependable, unspectacular
batting earned him centuries against Kent and
Yorkshire), it is as a bowler that he is most widely
known. He played for Sussex from 1845 to 1863. For
the period 1845 to 1859 he averaged 225 wickets
per season with an astounding 455 in 1851.
He also played representative cricket; in one
North versus South match in 1850 he captured all
the second innings wickets.
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In 1852 he founded the United All England XI
with a Sussex colleague Seven years later, he was
a member of the All-England team that toured
Canada and the United States. In one match he
took six wickets with six consecutive balls (a dou-
ble hat trick). On the trip over, Wisden showed the
humorous side of his nature (his epigrams were
said to rival those of Oscar Wilde) when he glanced
at the heavy seas and observed "what this pitch
needs is ten minutes of the heavy roller."
Wisden also showed considerable business
acumen. Along with fellow cricketer, Frederick
Lillywhite, he set up a cricket equipment and cigar
business in 1855. Although the partnership was
dissolved three years later, the business prospered
and John Wisden was a wealthy man when he died
in 1884.
John Wisden and Company continued to grow
even after its founder's death. In 1897 it began
manufacturing its own brand of sports equipment.
Although German bombs destroyed the factory in
1944, the company continued until 1970 when it
was acquired by Gray's of Cambridge. The com-
pany is currently owned by oil magnate and cricket-
lover J. Paul Getty. By 1979, "The House of Wisden"
as it is universally known, expanded into an addi-
tional publishing venture when it founded the
Wis-
den Cricket Monthly.
On the 100
th
anniversary of his death in 1984, a
new headstone was placed on John Wisden's grave
in Brompton Cemetery near Chelsea Football
Ground in London.
Notwithstanding his cricketing and business
skills, John Wisden is best remembered as the
founder, in 1864, of the
Wisden Cricketers' Alman-
ack.
It remains to this day the major reference work
on the game. The first edition cost one shilling and
its 112 pages contained an eclectic collection of
cricketing information and other sports trivia. By the
late 1860's and into the 1870's, the
Almanack
had
expanded to include scores of the previous sea-
son's matches, births and deaths of cricketers,
match accounts and County records. This "Cricket-
ers' Bible" boasted 500 pages by 1900. This doubled
by 1950 and the 2000 edition has not less than 1,600
pages. Its arrival in bookstores is a sure harbinger of
spring, signaling the start of another English cricket
season.
On August 21,1997, Guernsey, one of the Chan-
nel Islands located off the southeastern coast of
England, issued a series of stamps for the Island of
Aldemey to celebrate 150 years of cricket on that
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island. Cricket was introduced by soldiers garri-
soned there. The stamps show cricket personalities
with the 63-cent issue featuring John Wisden.
THE SELECTION
As indicated above,
Wisden Cricketers' Alman-
ack
annually picks its "Five Cricketers of the Year."
This selection is usually done by the editor with a
little help from his friends.
However, for its Five Cricketers of the Century,
Wisden decided to use a group of one hundred
distinguished ex-players and cricket writers as a
selection committee (the only current player among
the selectors was Australian National captain, Steve
Waugh).
This slate of candidates was chosen from the
then nine Test playing countries with about half
coming from England and Australia and based
roughly on the number of Test matches played.
The criteria for selection were fairly broad with
the two main guidelines being "excellence can be
interpreted broadly" and "it is legitimate to take into
account leadership qualities, personality, character
and impact on the public."
The supremacy of Don Bradman was clearly
demonstrated by his reception of all 100 votes. Gary
Sobers, usually considered the greatest all-rounder
of the century, did almost as well with 90 votes.
However, the other three places were by no means
certain with a surprising 47 players receiving at least
one vote. The final choice was clear cut with Jack
Hobbs (30 votes), Shane Warne (27), and Viv Rich-
ards (25) having a clear edge over Dennis Lillee and
Frank Worrell (tied at 19).
Another interesting facet of the selection was
that the Five's first class careers spawned almost
the entire century with very little overlap or gaps.
THE FIVE CRICKETERS OF THE CENTURY:
SIR DONALD BRADMAN
In 1997, the tenth annual "Australians in Sports"
survey found that the voters' favorite sporting per-
sonality was cricketer Sir Donald Bradman with 29%
of the vote. Golfer Greg Norman, with 10%, was a
distant second. That Sir Donald, universally known
as "The Don," should still be foremost in the minds
of the Australian sporting public is only the more
remarkable when you realize that at that time he
was 89 years old and had not played in a first class
cricket match for nearly fifty years.
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