Well That Settles It...I'm Going To Start Smoking in 2011

Well if it was good enough for these guys its good enough for me. Mel Ott says "I smoke all I want yet keep in good condition." I wonder if they still make filterless?

"Now Bobby, Just Imagine Him In His Underwear"

I wonder if Manager Leo Durocher gave that advice to Bobby Thomson before he stepped to the plate against Ralph Branca before the famous "Shot Heard 'Round The World."

Branca was known as a very good starter during his years in Brooklyn. Branca debuted on June 12, 1944, with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and put up a 3.04 ERA in 109.2 innings pitched in 1945, his rookie year. A three-time All-Star, he won 80 games for the Dodgers with a career-high 21 wins in 1947. He is best remembered for one infamous relief appearance in a 1951 playoff game against the crosstown rival New York Giants and gave up that famous home run to Thomson giving the Giants the National League pennant.

Branca later learned that the Giants had stolen the signs to the two pitches he threw Thomson.

So was it the underwear advice or the stolen sign?

Say It Ain't So Joe "Camel"

The original Joe "Camel"...sad.

Lefty O'Doul's or City Hotel

Likely to be from the late 1940s to 1950s what was known as a "linen" ad promotes a resturant owned by New York Giant All-Star of the 1920s & 30s Francis "Lefty" O'Doul. What a cool place to hang-out...from the outside it looks like Westfield's famous City Hotel.

Lefty's is still open today http://www.leftyodouls.biz/index.html

City Hotel photo by ScribeGirl

Inspired Artist or Same Artist?

Check out the art work that's 10 years apart. On the left is a 1937 Arrow Shirt ad and on the right an ad from 1947 for Pacific Woolens. Same artist different angle or just an inspired artist with a few tweeks?

Leonardo da Vinci Invented How To Pitch

Based on this ad for Canadian Club thats what it looks like as the graphic design was done in the style of a da Vinci technical drawing.

Maybe It's The Milk!

Ya see...thats all it was. Milk is gooood!