#dave winfield

[dirtyriver]

"It's up to you to cover the bases!"

Ora Care baseball bat toothbrush ads in Archie Giant Series #566 - The World of Archie, October 1986

[coolthingsguyslike]

[jhsharman]

underwater find

Funny thing. The reprints keep the container. New label, less specific company. I imagine the new bargain candy company has to find some other celebrities for their ad. Won't be able to afford --

A rejoinder to this candy selling in the very same issue --

[musicmags]

[gregorygalloway]

Dave Winfield (born 3 October 1951) 

[porterdavis]

Toronto the Good(-y Two Shoes)

BILL BECKER/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

 

In the middle of the fifth inning at Exhibition Stadium, Dave Winfield of the New York Yankees attempted to throw a ball from centre field to a ball boy down the right field line. En route, the ball struck and killed a ring-billed gull. After the game, the future member of baseball’s Hall of Fame was arrested by Toronto police for animal cruelty. New York’s manager Billy Martin remarked at the time that it had to be an accident because Winfield’s throwing arm was so inaccurate, and a few days later, the charges were dropped after an autopsy conducted at the University of Guelph revealed that the bird was ill and would have likely died soon anyway.

The incident was such an embarrassment to the Blue Jays that their general manager Pat Gillick rushed to the police station to pay Winfield’s $500 bail, and Paul Godfrey, then the chairman of Metropolitan Toronto, later attended a game at Yankee Stadium and apologized to him. Winfield was good-natured about the feathers he ruffled. He said he had no malicious intent and remarked, “You don’t have to look out for the Blue Jays’ pitching, you have to watch out for the seagulls.” 

Marty Klinkenberg

 

[this-day-in-baseball]

January 16, 2001

In their first year of eligibility, Dave Winfield and Kirby Puckett are elected to the Hall of Fame. The former Twins, who played together for Minnesota in 1993-94, become the seventh pair of teammates to be selected by the BBWAA in the same year.

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