1952 Spalding Ad World Series Yankees vs Brooklyn Dodgers

This is a 1952 Spalding Ad featuring the 1952 World Series film, a Warren Giles Official National League baseball, and a William Harridge official American League Baseball. Woe the days before VCRs, DVDs, and cable television. Yes kids before there was an ESPN if you wanted to see the World Series or see it again, You had to go to a movie theater or a local organization that "borrowed" the film. Back in 1952 lots of people didn't have televisions Yet. If you didn't go to the game, and didn't have a TV this was the only way to see it. It was also common for groups of people to gather in front of an appliance store to watch it through a window. Ads like this are a great way of dating your Vintage baseball memorabilia. This advertising appeared in "The Athletic Journal" magazine. below pictured from left to right a great shot of Yankee Stadium taken from the upper deck, about the film produced, and nariated by Lew Fonseca, and the Official Baseballs.

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