Studio 42 - MLB Network

MLB Network launched on January 1, 2009 in approximately 50 million homes as the largest network debut in cable history. MLB Network will air live games, original programming, highlights, classic games, and coverage of baseball events. The MLB Network studio is located at 40 Hartz Way, Suite 10, Secaucus, New Jersey 07094.

This new network will revolve around its showpiece, "Studio 42". Named to honor Jackie Robinson and The Number, Studio 42 measures 9,600 square feet, and will be used as a demonstration center by MLB Network’s on-air talent, which includes former players. Studio 42 is designed to be a replica baseball field, featuring a half-scale infield made of field turf, measuring 45 feet from base to base and a pitcher’s mound 30 feet from home plate that can be moved back for more realistic demonstrations. The studio also features a replica outfield wall, complete with padding, brick designs, three different seating areas that can hold up to 173 people, and a 25-foot out-of-town scoreboard loosely modeled after the scoreboard at Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia that will be updated in real-time.

Great Lakes Dunes

On October 2, 2008, in Empire, Michigan, at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, the Postal Service issued 42–cent Nature of America: Great Lakes Dunes commemorative stamps in 10 designs.

The stamps and souvenir sheet were designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland.

The Great Lakes Dunes is the tenth stamp pane in the Nature of America’s educational series that features the beauty and complexity of major plant and animal communities in the United States. Previous issuances in the Nature of America series were:

Sonoran Desert (1999)
Pacific Coast Rain Forest (2000)
Great Plains Prairie (2001)
Longleaf Pine Forest (2002)
Arctic Tundra (2003)
Pacific Coral Reef (2004)
Northeast Deciduous Forest (2005)
Southern Florida Wetlands (2006)
Alpine Tundra (2007)