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1951 Kellogg's
Babe Ruth Ring  Ad

Back of Topps-Bazooka Comic Book Ad

Roger Maris Gold Mine Ice-Cream Booster Tab
Roger Maris Gold Mine Ice-Cream Booster Tab

Babe Ruth - Kellogg's
Ring Display

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 KeyMan Collectibles  NEWSLETTER August 2019  
Collecting Baseball Memorabilia Advertisements
 Steven KeyMan
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Founder of Keymancollectibles.com, and a long time collector, Steven KeyMan has more than 30 years of experience in researching, and cataloging information on Baseball Memorabilia. Researching his own personal collection, and helping others find information on their collectibles, the website grew into the largest online resource for baseball memorabilia
 

   Ask Steven: Direct your questions or feedback, about Baseball Memorabilia to Steven KeyMan Steve@keymancollectibles.com You can also Send KeyMan pictures of your personal Memorabilia Display, and get your own Free  Collectors Showcase Room featured on the website..   
 
 Printed advertisements appearing in magazines, and newspapers, were the major advertising medium well before the digital age. Along with catalogs, and comic book ads, they could be considered works of art, worthy of framing, hung on the wall, or used to display with our baseball memorabilia.

  As Advertised in a 1913 Rawlings catalog; Glovolium is the only preparation on the market that softens the glove and at the same time preserves the leather, neither does it become rancid and offensive as other preparations do, after the glove has been used, it is odorless and harmless, and gives to the article on which it is added durability.

 Catalog ads are great to display with vintage baseball equipment. Framed, or inserted into a a topload photo protrector, the ad can be displayed behind the item.

 
 
   
    Color newspaper ads from the Sunday comics section are popular with collectors to display with their memorabilia. The Ted Williams Baseball Action Ring was made available as a premium by Nabisco in 1948; by mailing in a coupon with .15˘ and one box top from Nabisco Shredded Wheat. The ring is a gold-color metal with anti-tarnish finish, and has a plastic batter at the top. "It Really works....the batter swings with real World Series form!" A tab on the base allows the figure to swing the bat when the tab is turned. The side of the ring has a crossed bats and ball raised relief below the Ted Williams autograph.

 You could find baseball memorabilia advertisements inside inexpensive comic books. You will also find them in expensive comic books, but I wouldn't tear a page out of the 1963 issue of the first Amazing Spider-Man. However; inside the 1951 issue of Archie Comics Super Duck no. 39. is an ad for a Kellogg's promotion for a set of 16 picture rings, one picturing Babe Ruth. Known in the hobby as a PEP Ring, because they were given as a prize in Kellogg's PEP cereal, this ad features the prize in a box of Raisin Brand.

 From 1949-1951 Kellogg's included one from a set of 16 picture rings inside the boxes of PEP, and Raisin Brand cereal. The plastic toy rings featured sports, aviation and Wild West themes, and came in six different colors.

Here's another ad from a DC comic book featuring a Topps-Bazooka baseball promotion. In 1950, for only .25˘ and 50 Bazooka wrappers, Kids could get a "Swell" Official League baseball. Just save the red, white and blue foil wrappers from penny Bazooka-the Atom Bubble Gum. (2 big chews for 1˘) You had your choice between a genuine horsehide cover baseball or softball.

The baseball or softball you received in the mail though the promotion, was an Official League baseball manufactured by Sporting Goods Inc. of Springfield Massachusetts. The offer for the baseball with "Hand sewn red stitching for-curve ball pitching" expired on July 30, 1950. 

As advertised in this Sunday My 15, 1955 newspaper, Armour issued A free trading coin in every package of Armour Star Franks. The Plastic coins, the size of a silver dollar depicted 24 famous ballplayers. A player checklist featured in the ad includes; Yogi Berra, Del Crandall, Larry Doby, Jackie Jensen, Ted Kluszewski, Mickey Mantle, Pee Wee Reese, and Warren Spahn. The coins were issued in six colors; Deep Red, Dark Blue, Light Blue, Bright Yellow, Orange, and Green. The front of the coins feature a raised profile of the ballplayer, player’s name and team.

On the back, centered between a baseball diamond, and crossed bats are name, team, position, birthplace and date, batting, throwing preference, and 1954 hitting or pitching record. Each 1955 Armour coin can be found in two different "bust tilts" in which the tip of the cap and back point of the bust point to distinctly different areas of the rim. Armour also issued 20 coin sets in 1959, and 1960.

In a 1956 promotion, Tastee-Freez held a "Coloring Contest" where you could win $10,000. in cash prizes. When you ordered an "All Star Sundae" a "lifelike miniature" of a big League baseball star came with it. These white plastic miniatures were to be painted and sent in with an entry blank, and You were then eligible to win one of 266 cash prizes. This Life Magazine advertisement features an illustration of an Ed Mathews statuette that has color applied to it. The manufacture of these white statuettes, Big League Inc., also issued a copper colored set in blister packs.

 There were 18 different Tastee-Freez Big League Stars given away during the promotion. The "Famous American and National League All Star Ball Players" included; Larry Doby, Yogi Berra, Pee Wee Reese, Ed Mathews, Stan Musial, Bob Lemon, Minnie Minoso, and a bunting Mickey Mantle.

This Phillies Cigars Mickey Mantle Rawlngs Baseball glove promotion appeared in Life Magazine in 1964. The two page Advertisement features Mickey Mantle, and his son. On one side with the caption reading "Great glove Son!" and on the opposite page missing teeth, Mickey Mantle Jr. replies "You said it Dad"

 The Mickey Mantle Rawlings "Big Leaguer" youth baseball glove which retailed for $6.95 was made available for only $3.39 with 20 Phillies cigar bands. You also received a color photo of Mickey Mantle, along with a thank you letter. Glove ads make a great addition to your vintage baseball glove display
 
 
 
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