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Subcategory - Odd Shaped Stamps
Canada 2019 Vancouver Asahi odd shaped Stamps
Issue date 25 April 2019
Canada Post has issued a special odd shaped stamps in the shape of a baseball commemorating the Vancouver Asahi Baseball team, with the stamp featuring the 1940 team photograph, which includes Kaye Kaminishi (back row, second from left) – the Asahi’s last living team member.
The Vancouver Asahi team was formed in 1914– an amateur Japanese-Canadian baseball team whose name means Morning Sun – which thrilled fans and outwitted competitors with a unique strategy of bunts, base stealing, speed and squeeze plays that the media dubbed “brain ball.”
The Asahi became one of the city’s most dominant amateur teams and between 1919 and 1941, won multiple league titles in Vancouver and along the Pacific northwest. However, the team was forced to disband after Canada declared war on Japan and interned more than 20,000 Japanese living on the west coast, most of them Canadian citizens.
The Asahi ultimately earned their place in the BC Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame
Subcategory - Odd Shaped Stamps
Canada 2019 Vancouver Asahi odd shaped Stamps
Issue date 25 April 2019
Canada Post has issued a special odd shaped stamps in the shape of a baseball commemorating the Vancouver Asahi Baseball team, with the stamp featuring the 1940 team photograph, which includes Kaye Kaminishi (back row, second from left) – the Asahi’s last living team member.
The Vancouver Asahi team was formed in 1914– an amateur Japanese-Canadian baseball team whose name means Morning Sun – which thrilled fans and outwitted competitors with a unique strategy of bunts, base stealing, speed and squeeze plays that the media dubbed “brain ball.”
The Asahi became one of the city’s most dominant amateur teams and between 1919 and 1941, won multiple league titles in Vancouver and along the Pacific northwest. However, the team was forced to disband after Canada declared war on Japan and interned more than 20,000 Japanese living on the west coast, most of them Canadian citizens.
The Asahi ultimately earned their place in the BC Sports Hall of Fame and the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame
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