Celebrate the Century, 1950's: "Family Fun, Suburbia and Nuclear Threats"

Part of a souvenir sheet of 15 stamps

Issue date: 26^th May 1999

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33 c  (#c)	The "Shot Heard 'Round the World" by which the New York Giants beated the Brooklyn Dodgers. The name of this latter team comes from "trolley dodger" that was the streetcar line criss-crossing Brooklyn at the end of 19th Century. The baseball team Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers was formed in 1884
33 c  (#j)	New York City Transit Authority Subway token with N.Y. Yankee and Brooklyn Dodgers emblems, recalling how baseball fans traveled between the rival boroughs in a "Subway series"