About This Stamp
In association with Major League Baseball, the U.S. Postal Service commemorated 11 legendary playing fields. Appearing on the 10 stamps are: Comiskey Park in Chicago, Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, Fenway Park in Boston, Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Polo Grounds in New York City, Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Wrigley Field in Chicago, and Yankee Stadium in New York City. Sportsman’s Park in St. Louis is featured on the header.
Major League Baseball trademarks and copyrights are used with permission of Major League Baseball.
Art Director
Phil Jordan
Phil Jordan grew up in New Bern, North Carolina, and attended East Carolina University. After Army service in Alaska, he graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a degree in visual communications. He worked in advertising and in design at a trade association before joining Beveridge and Associates, Inc., where he provided art direction for corporate, institutional, and government design projects. A partner in the firm, he left after 18 years to establish his own design firm where he managed projects for USAir, NASA, McGraw-Hill, IBM, and Smithsonian Books, among others. He was Design Director of Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine for 15 years. His work appeared in numerous exhibitions and publications such as Graphis and Communications Arts. A past president of the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington, he was an art director for the U.S. Postal Service from 1991 to 2014. A resident of Falls Church, Virginia, he is a retired glider pilot and a member of the Skyline Soaring Club.