Ashe postage stamp due for release in ‘05

Sun., Aug. 29, 2004

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Arthur Ashe will be featured on a commemorative postage stamp in 2005.

The announcement came as part of Arthur Ashe Kids’ Day, held Saturday at the 23,000-seat U.S. Open facility in New York that bears his name.

The stamp is a photo of Ashe, the first black man to win the U.S. Open and Wimbledon, on the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine, naming him 1992 Sportsman of the Year.

The former No. 1 player grew up playing on segregated tennis courts and won 33 tennis titles, including the U.S. Open, Wimbledon and the Australian Open.

Ashe opposed South Africa’s apartheid rule, established foundations to help disenfranchised youth, and supported the fight against AIDS.

Ashe succumbed to AIDS-related pneumonia in 1993, after contracting the disease through a blood transfusion during heart surgery.

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