Very interesting. I like how you cover all aspects of baseball history.

Old Yankee Stadium (pre-1973) had the happiest medium... The ads were on the "outer" wall... The wall BEHIND the bleachers. The wall surrounding the field was ad-free. Of course, the scoreboard (Schaefer, Ballantine, Longines Watches...) was also well covered!

I don't think I will hear "oral hygiene juggernaut" ever again in my life.

Great video. Just recently I as wondering when ads seen on the outfield wall became common again since the late seventies.

This is just me, but I miss the way the ballparks/stadiums of the 1970's and 1980's looked inside when there was no advertising.

@thebaseballprofessor

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Dodger Stadium was so much more attractive in the 1980s.

@tedharrington5432

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@@thebaseballprofessor I agree. When you compare the 1978 and 2018 World Series you almost get the feeling that the Los Angeles Dodgers are playing in Two different ballparks. Or maybe that is just me.

@big8dog887

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I miss when stadiums had actual names, not corporate "naming rights". I wouldn't even mind the corporate names, except that they change every couple of years and it's next to impossible to keep track.

@TheBatugan77

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@@thebaseballprofessor Yeah, but Ebbets Field was the polar opposite. That famous RF wall! ALL advertising!

@TheBatugan77

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@@big8dog887 WORD! I always call the parks in Seattle and SF... Seattle & San Fran... Because they change the name all the time!

There are ads on uniforms now. As soon as they put that nike crap on them I said, whoops...no more money from me.

@thebaseballprofessor

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We're probably just a few short years away from jumpsuits with ads on them.

Yogi made a fortune off of Yoo-hoo drink. When he did the ads, he asked to be paid in stock, vice cash. The stock took off, and thus, so did Yogi.

@thebaseballprofessor

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Yogi was no dummy. The greatest coup of all time was George Lucas managing to keep the licensing and merchandising rights for Star Wars. Someone must've got fired at 20th Century Fox .

@BobbySacamano

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I haven't had a fucking Yoo-Hoo in decades. That was the best. I recall seeing somewhere on TV Yogi's ads, though it was years later. I may have seen some in the Yankees' "programs" and scorebooks when I would go to games as a kid.

I think that not mentioning Ty Cobb is a fairly significant exclusion. Cobb was the first millionaire baseball player after all, and although he made much of his wealth through savvy investments, he certainly made plenty of it from endorsing the companies he invested in as well.

@thebaseballprofessor

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I didn't say anything about Cobb, you are correct abou that, but the very last image in the video before it fades to black is actually Nap Lajoie (left) and Ty Cobb (right) pitching for Coca-Cola. If you pause the video, the text for the Lajoie ad is quite interesting due to the political context of the growing temperance movement.

@TheBatugan77

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Ty Cobb... Coca Cola. Million$.

@greenshoesguy1

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@@TheBatugan77 Coca Cola and General Motors. Cobb playing in Detroit at the start of the automotive industry was very lucrative.

All I'll say here is that Luis Tiant needs to be elected to the Hall of Fame.

@TheBatugan77

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Luis could read the ads on the OF fences during his windup on the mound.

Hopefully you're up to about 30 minutes into the intro to your upcoming shadowball documentary.

@thebaseballprofessor

Жыл бұрын

I'm 30 pages into the treatment for a 12 part documentary. All I need now is a powerful Hollywood producer.

Volume II?

@thebaseballprofessor

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There was an audio glitch around minute 7. I couldn't fix it without re-uploading the entire video, but I might just do "Baseball ads of a bygone era, part II"! There's plenty of material.

@big8dog887

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@@thebaseballprofessor A whole generation who never saw him play knew Joe DiMaggio as "Mr. Coffee". Watching Nolan Ryan's accomplishments as an old man probably sold a lot of Advil.

@thebaseballprofessor

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@@big8dog887 Ha! I just watched a few of the commercials Joe D did for Mr. Coffee. He's surprisingly comfortable on screen. Nolan Ryan was the perfect pitchman for Advil.

@TheBatugan77

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@@big8dog887 Also the Bowery savings bank.

@big8dog887

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@@thebaseballprofessor Pro tip: If you do a part 2, and want to increase your female viewership, use a Jim Palmer Jockey shorts ad as your thumbnail.

I LIKE the ads on the walls. I also like how in the early days, they all seemed to be about whiskey or shaving supplies.

@thebaseballprofessor

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They are certainly interesting to look at as documents of early twentieth century consumer culture.

@big8dog887

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Actual physical ads, yes. Green screens with ads superimposed by television, not so much.

@thebaseballprofessor

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@@big8dog887 I detest anything behind home plate and especially digital screens that change with every at bat.