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===Postage stamp recognition=== On July 17, 2010, the [[U.S. Postal Service]] [[First day of issue|issued]] a [[se-tenant (philately)|se-tenant]] pair of 44-cent U.S. [[Commemorative stamp|commemorative]] [[postage stamp]]s, to honor the all-black professional baseball leagues that operated from 1920 to about 1960. The stamps were formally issued at the [[Negro Leagues Baseball Museum]], during the celebration of the museum's twentieth anniversary.<ref>{{cite web|title=New stamps honors Negro Leagues Baseball|date=July 17, 2010|publisher=PRNewswire-USNewswire|work=affrodite.net|url=http://affrodite.net/2010/07/15/new-stamps-honors-negro-leagues-baseball/|access-date=October 21, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Anne|last=Krueger|title=Negro Leagues players get stamp on history|date=May 6, 2010|work=[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]]|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/may/06/negro-leagues-players-get-stamp-on-history/|access-date=November 2, 2011|quote=The stamps were created by San Diego artist [[Kadir Nelson]], who also wrote a book about Negro leagues baseball that is filled with his paintings of the players and the lives they led as they traveled from town to town in their segregated league.}}</ref> One of the stamps depicts [[Rube Foster]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/United-States/4466/USA/ |title=#4466 β 2010 44c Negro Leagues Baseball: Rube Foster |website=mysticstamp}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps-postal-history/2016/september/born-september-17-rube-foster.html |website=linns stamp news |title=Born Sept. 17: Rube Foster |date=September 16, 2016}}</ref>
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