Baseball stars in advertising

[GiambiJuice]

Came across these accidentally on youtube. So cool!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-gmoyG2PT8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rumBgcwe-9E&NR=1

please add more if you have any. This can turn into a nice thread.

[Captain Cold Nose]

Maypo had some great ads back in the sixties. "Even Carl Yastrzemski eats it," I remember the camel in one ad (I think it was a camel) saying.

I'll try to find it somewhere.

[west coast orange and black]

buck did several public service announcements.

here (while still on the field) he cautions against playing with blasting caps.

[Captain Cold Nose]

buck did several public service announcements.

here (while still on the field) he cautions against playing with blasting caps.

That's an interesting and curious PSA. Reminds me of the Isaiah Thomas electrical wires PSA they ran in Detroit for over a decade which I can't seem to be able to find and are not baseball-related, anyway.

[leecemark]

--I remember those old spots on blasting caps from when I was a kid. Was there really a problem with people leaving explosives laying around where kids could get into them?

[Yankeebiscuitfan]

How about this one:

Chicks dig the long ball

And this one:

Biscuits

[GiambiJuice]

How about this one:

Chicks dig the long ball

I remember that one!! it was a classic. To answer the question on that McGwire billboard, no, it wasn't the shoes. It was the juice.