Wednesday’s ad is for Falstaff, from 1954. The ad includes a great illustration of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Dizzy Dean, who’s show relaxing with some beers and showing off his many trophies to a younger couple. AT this point in his career, he’d been retired for years and had been inducted into the baseball hall of fame the previous year.
… & started doing CBS’ Game of the Week every Saturday in 1955. He did games on national radio 1952 for Mutual;1953-4 for ABC – I have no idea if Falstaff sponsored those, as there was no ABC radio affiliate in Fresno (where I lived age 1.25-13.5) & I can’t remember my dad ever listening to a game on Mutual (which had an affiliate there, but I was only 3 in ’52) .