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The baseball stamp series will be released July 2012 in sheets of 20. It’s part of the U.S. Postal Service’s efforts to increase interest in stamp collecting via social media (including its Facebook page).

The New York Times noted that while this marks the first appearance for DiMaggio on a U.S. stamp, he was actually depicted on a stamp issued by Ajman in 1969, an independent emirate in the Persian Gulf that is now part of the United Arab Emirates. As an aside, people are only honored posthumously on U.S. stamps, but many foreign countries depict still-living people on their postal releases.