1992 Olympic Postage Stamp

When the 1992 Summer Olympic games in Barcelona Spain begun, hundreds of nations competed for the first time in the sport of baseball. There have been baseball games at previous Olympics but they were only to allow the Olympic committee to determine whether it was feasible to add the sport.

In 1992, baseball became an official sport and when the teams took the field in Barcelona it was for the gold. To mark the addition of baseball to the Olympic schedule, many nations, including the United States issued stamps showing action on the diamond.

The US Postal Service issued a 29¢ commemorative baseball stamp on April 3, 1992, in Atlanta, Georgia. The site where the 1996 Summer Olympic games would be held. Anthony DeLuz of Boston who won a national design contest, received the standard $3,000. design fee for his work; showing a runner sliding into home plate, as a catcher, ball in mitt, attempts to tag him out.

1992 USA Olympic Baseball United States Postage Stamp

1992 USA Olympic Baseball Commemorative Plate Block

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