Blasting Caps, Potato Chips, and Shakespeare
All About Baseball with Byron Copley
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Show Notes
Baseball testimonials and endorsements are as old as the game itself. What used to make the good ones valuable and relevant to me was that the ballplayers featured didn’t have to act: they could just be themselves. In this podcast, I offer several examples of what I consider as authentic commercials that featured Detroit Tigers Jim Northrup, Al Kaline and Willie Horton, Los Angeles Dodger Don Drysdale, and San Francisco Giant Willie Mays.
However, Pete Rose comes off to me as insincere and one-dimensional in the several ads that featured him.
Below are links to the commercials I mentioned that I could source online.
Don Drysdale Vitalis Commercial
Pete Rose Aqua Velva Commercial
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Music: “Field Grass,” by Sergei Pavkin