Friday’s ad is for Ballantine, from around 1950. The ad features Pittsburgh Pirate right fielder Roberto Clemente, so it must have been before 1973, since Clemente died in a plane crash while delivering aid to victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua on December 31, 1972. I still have one of his baseball cards from when I was a kid. If I had to guess, I’d say the ad is not an ad per se, but more likely was part of a baseball program sold at the stadium, except that at second glance the text is in Spanish, saying “Roberto Clemente at bat for Ballantine beer.”
Archives for April 4, 2014
Beer In Film #94: Local Brew — Maine Beer Company
Today’s beer film is an episode of Local Brew, Episode 2 featuring a visit to Maine Beer Company in Lewiston, Maine. It was completed in 2012, but they apparently only did two shows.