Can you name the prominent sports figures who have been featured on U.S. postage stamps?

created by Booger

Enter an athlete (last names acceptable) in the box below
Correctly named athletes will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
* With the sole exception of U.S. Presidents, a person must be dead for ten years before being featured on a U.S. postage stamp.
Also try: Women on Stamps

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Year Appeared	Athlete	Sport(s)
2005		Tennis player
1997		Football coach
2003		Football coach
2006		Baseball player
1984		Baseball player
2000		Baseball player
2000		Baseball player
2000		Baseball player
1998		Football player
2000		Baseball player
1998		Boxer
1990		Boxer, bobsledder
1990		Track & field athlete
2000		Baseball player
1989		Baseball player
2000		Baseball player
2003		Football player
2006		Baseball player
2000		Baseball player
1997		Football coach
2000		Baseball player
2000		Baseball player
1981		Golfer
1998		Football coach
1997		Football coach
1993		Boxer

Year Appeared	Athlete	Sport(s)
2006		Baseball player
1999		Boxer
1999		Baseball player
2000		Baseball player
1998		Football player
2003		Football player
1961		Basketball inventor
2003		Football player
2006		Baseball player
1988		Golfer
1990		Track & field athlete
2000		Baseball player
1982		Baseball player
2006		Boxer
1988		Football coach
2004		Track & field athlete
1983		Baseball player
2000		Baseball player
2000		Baseball player
1998		Football player
1984		Football player
2000		Baseball player
2000		Baseball player
1997		Football coach
2000		Baseball player
1981		Track & field athlete
2004	Track & field athlete
1990	Track & field athlete

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Sports Stars on Stamps Quiz

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Created by: Booger -
Published: August 24th, 2009
Category: Sports
Plays: 29,003

Tags: figure, featured, prominent, appeared, stamp, postage, star, athlete

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	JohnJF:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 17:47 GMT	11 points
	Seeing as Paul Robeson is not known as an athlete and is not even portrayed athletically on his stamp, that would open the floodgates for several other athletes who are far better known for other fields, such as John Wayne or Gerald Ford.

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	SporcleAdmin:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 17:55 GMT	14 points
	@Booger - added; @JohnJF - good point, removed. We hope these can avoid a Stamp-ede and that folks will have this quiz licked.

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	SilverCup:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 17:59 GMT	-4 points
	And I also just noticed it gave me George Sisler in the results when I didn't guess him, but I did guess Jackie Robinson and I didn't get credit for that one.

	zigra:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 18:10 GMT	14 points
	Three minutes in before I remembered that you had to be dead to get on a stamp in the U.S.

	starfish:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 18:12 GMT	3 points
	I typed in DiMaggio three times to make sure I was spelling it right. Amazing that he's never made it onto a stamp.

	Supernuke:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 18:33 GMT	6 points
	DiMaggio died in 1999 if i remember correctly, so it might not have been ten years yet...

	Tahnan:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 18:44 GMT	2 points
	It's kind of astonishing that there aren't any basketball players at all on stamps--is the sport too young to have great players who died before the year 2000?

Bren808:

Aug 24th, 2009 at 18:52 GMT

-1 points

What, no Duke Kahanamoku?

	chikka2:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 18:55 GMT	-1 points
	Made some useless entries till it hit me what the qualifications are for being on a stamp. Too bad to give'em this one great honour that they'll never be around to see

	RandallPinkston:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 19:05 GMT	7 points
	@Tahnan: All of the giants of the sport are either alive or died in the past ten years. You could make a case for someone like Pete Maravich, but I imagine the USPS wants to reserve the honor of being the first basketball player on a stamp to someone who is indisputably central to the history of the game. My guess is that they go with Wilt Chamberlain, who died in 1999.

	Aoibhinn:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 19:22 GMT	0 points
	Oh god it was a long way into the quiz until i read the part that says you have to be dead to be on a stamp in the U.S. all the while shouting 'how could they not have put Tiger Woods on a stamp yet?!'.

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	Hal_10000:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 19:54 GMT	2 points
	Thought the quiz should have included race horses like secretariat.

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	Lester_Diamond:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 20:21 GMT	-1 points
	now we can see how people truly do on this quiz, seeing as these answers can't be easily looked up on google like all the other quizzes...

	JacketFan:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 20:25 GMT	1 point
	Mr. Nagurski, a native of Minnesota, spelled his first name "Bronko", I believe, not as the Denver football team does (Bronco).

	Etheridge2:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 21:13 GMT	1 point
	Robby Thompson could be a bonus answer. If memory serves correct his 1951 HR was honored with a stamp when the USPS did their celebrate the century series at the end of the 20th century. 16 events/peoples from each decade of the century were honored with stamps. Not sure if Thompson's face was on the stamp or not, but if so he would be one of only a handful of living people to be featured on a stamp, The soldiers raising the flag at Iwo Jima I think were the first, not sure if there have been others.

	pat19:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 21:29 GMT	2 points
	@jeremy: I believe you mean Bobby Thomson.

	GeoExpert:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 21:36 GMT	1 point
	Kind of odd that it is not in Chronological order. (Alphabetical order instead)

	Kicking222:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 22:54 GMT	4 points
	Interesting quiz, though I wonder why Eddie Eagan is given as "Boxer, bobsledder", but Thorpe and Zaharias are only given as "Track & field". Still, that's a small gripe- 'twas a good quiz. I'm very surprised Amos Alonzo Stagg has never been on a stamp- he was in the inaugural classes of both the College Football and Pro Basketball Halls of Fame.

	elanis:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 22:59 GMT	2 points
	The same rule about being dead applies in the UK too (except for royalty) I think the only person who bypassed the rule is Roger Taylor from Queen, who was lurking in the background on drums behind Freddie Mercury in 'that' pose.

	ChinaWhite:	Aug 24th, 2009 at 23:16 GMT	2 points
	tougher quiz than I first thought. wonder how long it will take someone to cheat to hit them all.

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	drn211:	Aug 25th, 2009 at 01:40 GMT	2 points
	Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman and Paul Robesman are the bonus also Helene Madison, a swimmer, was left off the list for some reason.

	Veghead:	Aug 25th, 2009 at 13:11 GMT	1 point
	Tough quiz. I got 19 on first try but I also took a while to figure out that you have to be dead to be on a stamp - is it really 10 years dead? I tried Dimaggio a couple of times too. I confess that I've never heard of the bottom 10.

America:

Aug 26th, 2009 at 01:45 GMT

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how have they not had any basketball player stamps? Really?

	drn211:	Aug 30th, 2009 at 18:06 GMT	1 point
	@America It's because you have to dead at least 10 years to make a stamp and all of the famous basketballs stars are still alive or have died only recently. Chamberlain, who died 10 years ago, might end up being the first.

	alibOSU:	Dec 14th, 2009 at 05:54 GMT	1 point
	I think you are missing Jesse Owens from 1990. I tried entering his name a million times and was shocked that it didn't come up. He definitely has a stamp.

	sobdennis:	Jun 22nd, 2010 at 19:29 GMT	1 point
	This was tougher than i thought it would be. Why I couldn't remember Arthur Ashe, especially after I realized they were in alphabebical order, is beyond me.

	brothrslim:	Aug 13th, 2010 at 20:45 GMT	1 point
	Very hard. Good quiz

	jshep:	Nov 10th, 2010 at 23:03 GMT	1 point
	Wightman definitely should be on the list -- dominated womens' tennis for years (granted it was a long time ago, but still ...)

	camly:	Mar 21st, 2011 at 20:44 GMT	2 points
	would be better if it showed the stamp. Picture quiz. Maybe could've blocked out the names

	MarciniakUCF:	Nov 1st, 2011 at 22:06 GMT	1 point
	Doesn't really matter, since only last names are needed, but it's Bronko Nagurski.