JOURNAL OF SPORTS PHILATELY Volume 51 Spring 2013 Number 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS President's Message Mark Maestrone 1 Cricket & Philately: Cricket on the Peter Street 3 Subcontinent – Bangladesh Hungary Salutes London Olympics Mark Maestrone 10 and Hungarian Olympic Team & Zoltan Klein 1928 Olympic Fencing Postcards from Italy Mark Maestrone 12 Scenery Baseball Postmarks Norman Rushefsky 15 of Japan & Masaoki Ichimura 100th Grey Cup Game – A Post Game Addendum Kon Sokolyk 22 The next Olympic Games are J.L. Emmenegger 24 just around the corner! Book Review: Titanic: The Tennis Story Norman Jacobs, Jr. 28 The Sports Arena Mark Maestrone 29 Reviews of Periodicals Mark Maestrone 30 News of our Members Mark Maestrone 32 New Stamp Issues John La Porta 34 www.sportstamps.org Commemorative Stamp Cancels Mark Maestrone 36 SPORTS PHILATELISTS INTERNATIONAL CRICKET President: Mark C. Maestrone, 2824 Curie Place, San Diego, CA 92122 Vice-President: Charles V. 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American Philatelic Society (APS) Affiliate #39 ISSN 0447-953X Vol. 51, No. 3 American Topical Association (ATA) Study Unit Spring 2013 U.S. Chapter, Fédération Internationale de Philatélie Olympique (FIPO) PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE by Mark Maestrone JSP Articles of Distinction It’s a great idea that would, however, be a bit beyond our site’s current capabilities (and your Each year, the American Philatelic Society webmaster’s time constraints). There is a potential encourages its affiliates and clubs to submit an alternative. PerfectCollector.com is a new website Article of Distinction for publication on the APS devoted to collectors groups. SPI has been invited website. For the second year, SPI is participating to join. And because we would be “early adopters” with the help of our volunteer jury of Jim Bowman, there would be no fee assessed to either the soci- Peter Laimins, and Clem Reiss. 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Drop me a to Norman and his jury for their hard work! line at my email address (shown below). PerfectCollector.com XIX World Olympic Collector’s Fair As noted in my President’s Message in the last As we were going to press with this issue, an issue of JSP, the Board of Directors has decided to announcement arrived inviting all SPI members to terminate the SPI Auction due to lack of interest. the 2013 World Olympic Collector’s Fair to be held Still, SPI members have mentioned that it would be in Bø, Norway from 26-28 July. The event coordina- nice if there were a mechanism on our website for tor is Halvor Kleppen who can be reached by e- listing and trading or selling material directly be- mail at [email protected]. Further details are tween members. available on the SPI website home page. The SPI web site is located at: http://www.sportstamps.org Mark Maestrone: [email protected] Dale Lilljedahl: [email protected] Charles Covell: [email protected] Patricia Ann Loehr: (none at this time) Andrew Urushima: [email protected] Norman Rushefsky: [email protected] Norman Jacobs: [email protected] Robert Wilcock: [email protected] John La Porta: [email protected] Journal of Sports Philately Spring 2013 1 We Buy and Sell Topicals! Tens of Thousands of Illustrated Topical Items can be found on our website: http://www.westminsterstamp.com For a printed list of your topical interest, please contact us. We are members of ASDA, APS, ATA. P.O. Box 456 Foxboro, MA 02035 1-508-384-6157 FAX 1-508-384-3130 E-mail: [email protected] 2 Spring 2013 Journal of Sports Philately Cricket and Philately: Cricket on the Subcontinent – Bangladesh by Peter N. Street “I have not become the King’s First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.” Winston Churchill, 1942 otwithstanding Churchill’s brave words, by the end of the twentieth century all N the European powers, except France, found it financially untenable to sup- port their colonies leading to the founding of many independent nations. The Indian subcontinent was divided, in 1947, into two separate countries mostly along religious and ethnic lines. The central and by far the largest part, was retained as Hindu India. The rest – Moslem Figure 1. The Indian subcontinent includes the nations of Pakistan – was itself divided into West Pakistan India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh (once known as East Pakistan). bordering on Afghanistan, and East Pakistan abut- ting India and Burma (now Myanmar). After a brief civil war in 1971, East and West In 1997 they won the ICC Trophy which qualified Pakistan were separated. East Pakistan was re- them for the 1999 World Cup. This success led to named Bangladesh (Figure 1). the award of one-day international and first-class The first Bangladeshi stamps with a cricket status by the ICC. theme were issued in 1988 and since then the Their performance in the World Cup and the country has produced a number of stamps, minia- popularity of the game at club, company and school ture sheets and event covers with cricket as their levels, led to the BCCB seeking full Test Match status main topic. A number of these items will be dis- which was granted in the year 2000. cussed in this article. Initially the ICC was criticized for this action but After its war of independence, Bangladesh was in the last decade Bangladesh has gradually im- faced with the problem of survival and thus could proved on an international level which seems to spare little energy on the furtherance of cricket. It justify the ICC’s action. wasn’t until a military regime was established in Also without this promotion it is doubtful 1976 that cricket saw a revival. whether Bangladesh could have obtained the The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) team money for development. toured the country in 1976-77 playing four matches to large crowds. The Asia Cup In 1977 the Bangladesh Cricket Control Board (BCCB) was welcomed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as an associate member.