Friday’s ad is for Narragansett, from 1961. After the tragedy in Boston and the swift capture/killing of the perpetrators last night and today, I thought an ad with the Red Sox was in order. This one shows Boston’s schedule for the 1961 season, and shows a cask of the Rhode Island beer emblazoned with the tagline “Straight from-the-Barrel Taste.” It’s hard to believe that was what they were going for in 1961, or that people would respond to such a claim.
“Proud sponsor of the Red Sox away games”
Note the Oct 1 game at Yankee Stadium. Roger Maris hit number 61 in that game.
Maris hit it off Tracy Stallard, who had at 2 other bad “memorable baseball moments”, both in 1964. He was losing pitcher (as a NY Met) to the Giants in a 7hr-23-min game in May, then lost to a Jim Bunning perfect game a month later.