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11/09 19:47 CST Willie Mays and Pat Summitt to be honored with U.S. Postal
Service stamps next year
Willie Mays and Pat Summitt to be honored with U.S. Postal Service stamps next
year
WASHINGTON (AP) --- Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays and longtime Tennessee
women's basketball coach Pat Summitt will be honored with stamps next year, the
U.S. Postal Service announced Monday.
Mays, who died in 2024 at age 93, was a 24-time All-Star and two-time National
League Most Valuable Player.
His stamp, designed to look like a baseball card, will feature a portrait of
Mays with the New York Giants and an inset image of the outfielder making his
famous, over-the-shoulder catch of a drive by Cleveland's Vic Wertz in the 1954
World Series opener. Mays batted .301 with 660 homers and 1,909 RBIs from
1951-73.
The orange background refers to a color of Mays' teams, the New York and San
Francisco Giants and the New York Mets. It will be the 50th stamp of the USPS's
Black Heritage series and was designed by Antonio Alcal, an art director of
the USPS.
Summitt, who died in 2016 at age 64, led Tennessee to eight NCAA championships
and compiled a career record of 1,098-208 from 1974-2012. Her stamp features an
oil-on-primed-linen portrait created by Roberto Parada. It was designed by
Ethel Kessler, an art director for USPS.
Summitt is in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and the Women's Basketball
Hall of Fame.
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