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Ninety years ago today, the New York Yankees played their first regular-season game at Yankee Stadium. Think you know all there is to know about this important day in baseball history? Prove it and you could win!

If you can answer all three of the following questions correctly, you’ll be entered into a drawing to win one copy of This wonderful 8½” x 11”, 40-page softbound book features the vivid paintings of artist Graig Kreindler, as well as 16 collectible stamps: the 2001 Legendary Playing Fields (10), the 2010 Negro Leagues Baseball (2), and the 2012 Major League Baseball All-Stars (4) stamps.

Ready?

1. Who hit the first home run at Yankee Stadium?

2. Yankee Stadium hosted four All-Star games. Give the four years in which those games were held.

3. The final game at Yankee Stadium was played on September 21, 2008. That night, who was the Yankees’ starting pitcher?

To enter, send your answers, along with your name and address, to uspsstamps [at] gmail [dot] com. Of those who answer correctly, three people will be randomly chosen to receive a copy of Play Ball! If you don’t know all the answers this time around, don’t worry. You’ll have several more chances to win over the course of the season. The deadline for entries is 11:59 EDT, Friday, April 19. Good luck!

The contest entry period is now over. The correct answers are: 1. Babe Ruth 2. 1939, 1960, 1977, 2008 3. Andy Pettitte

Congratulations to our winners: Jeremy Freed, Gregg S. Garfinkel, and Diane Goatey. And thank you to everyone who entered. Check back next month for a chance to win.

Let’s kick off National Postcard Week with one of our favorite postcard-themed stamp releases: Baseball’s Legendary Playing Fields.

Issued in 2001, these stamps honored 10 beloved ballparks, where fans thrilled to some of the finest moments in Major League Baseball. The individual character of each field has made for some of the game’s most memorable and unexpected plays. The fields featured on this pane are: Crosley Field, Cincinnati; Ebbets Field, Brooklyn; Comiskey Park, Chicago; Forbes Field, Pittsburgh; Polo Grounds, New York City; Shibe Park, Philadelphia; Yankee Stadium, New York City; Wrigley Field, Chicago; Fenway Park, Boston; and Tiger Stadium, Detroit. Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis is featured on the header.

Although only four of these fields still exist, for baseball fans everywhere they are shrines to America’s national pastime—places where history, tradition, and legend all intersect in chalk lines on the grass.

So why did we decide to start National Postcard Week with these stamps? Look closely. The art for each of these stamps comes from replicas of vintage postcards!

Here’s a closer look at the Forbes Field stamp:

And here’s the postcard on which it was based:

Art director Phil Jordan hit upon the idea of basing stamps on postcards quite by accident while looking through a book on baseball memorabilia. In the book he saw a replica postcard of Shibe Stadium, circa 1915. “It struck me that maybe we could do the stamps by showing old postcards,” Jordan said. What a great idea!

Can you think of any other stamps adapted from postcards?

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