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The U.S. Postal Service will release stamps in June that honor the Negro baseball leagues and Rube Foster, who established the Negro National League in 1920.
Published: December 31, 2009 3:00 a.m.

Negro leagues among stamp honorees in ’10

Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin will be honored on U.S. postage stamps next year.

Joining them will be Oscar-winning actress Katharine Hepburn, singing cowboy Gene Autry, artist Winslow Homer and Adm. Arleigh Burke.

Other new stamps will honor the Negro baseball leagues, the Sunday funnies and the Hawaiian rain forest, the Postal Service announced Wednesday.

The post office releases a series of commemorative stamps every year, honoring people, places and institutions. These stamps remain on sale for a limited period and are widely collected.

The 2010 new stamp program includes:

•The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games will be marked with a stamp featuring a snowboarder.

•The Year of the Tiger will be marked with a stamp in the lunar new year series.

•The Mackinac Bridge in Michigan will be shown on the new Priority Mail stamp.

•The 2010 holiday stamps will feature the foliage of four evergreens.

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