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   From: Lloyd@virtualstampclub.com   
      
   [For Immediate Release]   
   Negro Leagues Baseball Stamps Dedication Planned At Americover 2010   
   August 6th   
      
   The cry of "Play Ball" will be heard at Americover 2010, the annual show   
   and convention of the American First Day Cover Society that's being held   
   August 6-8 in Oak Brook, Ill., near Chicago.   
      
   A dedication ceremony for the new Negro Leagues Baseball stamps will be   
   held at 11 a.m. on Friday, August 6, in the Marquis Room of the Chicago   
   Marriott Oak Brook, sponsored by the AFDCS, the Ebony Society of   
   Philatelic Events and Reflections (ESPER), and the American Ceremony   
   Program Society.   
      
   Two former Negro Leagues players, Johnny "Lefty" Washington and Hank   
   "Baby" Presswood, will speak at the ceremony, along with representatives   
   of theAFDCS, ESPER, ACPS and the U.S. Postal Service. Washington and   
   Presswood will also be available to sign autographs and memorabilia   
   after the ceremony.   
      
   Washington was a versatile athlete who played pitcher, first base and   
   outfield for the Houston Eagles and Chicago American Giants in the late   
   1940s, as well as the U.S. Marine national championship team in 1952.   
   Presswood played shortstop and third base for the Cleveland Buckeyes and   
   Kansas City Monarchs  in the late 1940s and early 1950s.   
      
   In addition, the USPS will be selling the two new 44-cent Negro Leagues   
   Baseball stamps and will offer two pictorial postmarks, one that is   
   being used nationwide to celebrate the issuance of the stamps and the   
   other a baseball-theme postmark for Americover 2010 (the “show cancel”).   
      
   Americover 2010 also features a national-level exhibition of first day   
   covers, a commercial dealers bourse and a cachetmakers bourse, a forum   
   by a postal official involved with first day covers, seminars, meetings,   
   a youth table, the Stamps in The Attic quick collection evaluation   
   service, and several auctions.   
      
   Customers at the cachetmakers bourse are likely to see a wide variety of   
   FDCs for the Negro Leagues Baseball issue.   
      
   ESPER is an international stamp society which promotes the collecting of   
   African Americans on stamps and the collecting of stamps by African   
   Americans. The ACPS is a collectors club dedicated to the preservation   
   of Postal Service first day and philatelic-related event programs.   The   
   AFDCS is the largest non-profit organization for first day cover   
   collectors in the world, and publisher of the award-winning journal   
   First Days.   
      
   More information on Americover 2010 is available on the AFDCS Web site,   
   www.afdcs.org, by e-mail from showinfo@afdcs.org.   
      
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