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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jan 21, 1949

Al Schacht's ""Right field" cocktail lounge

Mickey Mantle's Holliday Inn Dugout Lounge Postcard

Mantle's Holliday Inn Dugout Lounge Carpet

1952 Sport Kings Ad

1954 Reedy's  Ad

Great Moments in Baseball Casey's Lager Beer Cans

Mike Shannon's Steaks and Seafood Postcard

Jim Beam 1976 Bicentennial Norman Rockwell Decanter

Pedro's Rum "Names to Remember” Matchbooks

 KeyMan Collectibles  NEWSLETTER January 2021  
HAPPY NEW YEAR ! Time For Some Baseball 
 Steven KeyMan
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  Memorabilia Cocktails - By Steven KeyMan
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..   
 
    Happy New Year ! We survived 2020 and look forward to better days in 2021. Lets toast to our family, friends, and good health. Time to pop the cork in celebration to the new year with baseball memorabilia cocktails. Usher in our collection with swizzle sticks, cocktail glasses and napkins.
 
   
    Swizzle Stick and Cocktail napkin from Joe DiMaggio's World Famous Restaurant & Cocktail lounge, overlooking the world-famous Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. In 1937, a season removed from his All-Star rookie season with the New York Yankees, Joe DiMaggio invested $25,000 in the restaurant.

  Named "Joe DiMaggio's Grotto," he brought his brothers in, and left Tom in charge to run the business. Their farther Giuseppe was a lifelong fisherman, as were generations of DiMaggio's before him. Not long before the restaurant was opened, the father and older brothers set out every morning to take crabs off the ocean floor. Joe received a wholesale price of 22 cent a crab for his catch.
 
   
 
  Living in the St. Louis area with his family, Stan Musial always worried about his baseball career, about getting hurt, and wanted a business to fall back on. After befriending Julius "Biggie" Garagnani, owner of Biggie's Steak House, Musial bought a house.

 Stan then spoke with Biggie about a partnership in the restaurant. Musial officially became Biggie's partner in January of 1949. This swizzle stick, and cocktail glass is from Stan Musial & Biggies Steak House in St. Louis.
 
   
    This crossed bats and ball swizzle stick is from the prestigious Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown N.Y. The back back reads "Visit The Baseball Hall Of Fame" During the Hall Of Fame induction week-end, this historic hotel which was built in 1909, turns into an exclusive weekend hideaway for Hall of Famers and their families. The hotel closes down to the public to host Major League Baseball stars coming into town for the annual Hall of Fame Induction. Some notable names of past inductees include Cal Ripken, Nolan Ryan and Reggie Jackson.

The 1957 World Series featured the National League Champion Milwaukee Braves defeating the American League pennant winning New York Yankees. This was the Braves first pennant since moving from Boston in 1953. This 1957 World Series Cocktail napkin with the Rally Cry "Let's Go All The Way!" was made by MILAPACO - Milwaukee Lace Paper Company. Using a Milwaukee Braves color scheme, it features a Braves Pennant at the top of a flagpole above a Yankees flag.  
 
   
   This swizzle stick is from Al Schacht's "Score Card" Restaurant's "Right field" cocktail lounge.  Al Schacht was a Major League pitcher for the Washington Senators from 1919 to 1921. He later became a 3rd base coach, and his comedic antics from the coaching lines with fellow Washington coach Nick Altrock, earned him the nickname of "The Clown Prince of Baseball." In 1942 Schacht cited that tire and gas restrictions, rationing for the war effort, forced him to abandon his diamond antics and he decided to open a cafe in New York. It soon became a popular destination for local sports stars and celebrities. The Restaurant operated into the 1960's.

This Cocktail Napkin is from the Dugout Lounge at Mickey Mantle's Holliday Inn. In 1956, Harold D. Youngman approached Mickey Mantle about leasing and operating a Holiday Inn hotel in Joplin, Missouri.

 It was agreed that Mickey would be named the president of the Mickey Mantle Motel Corp., the Holiday Inn, and Youngman would be the vice president. The hotel opened for business on January 10, 1957.

This World Series 12 ounce Highball Glass was 1 of a set of 8 Championship Sports glasses issued by Sport Kings. As advertised "Check Sports Records While You Enjoy Your Favorite Drink" The World Series cocktail glass features a gold leaf illustrated baseball player swinging a bat above a gold leaf platform.

 The 29 World Series winners listed in white lettering from 1924 to 1952 is framed with a gold leaf arrow design border. At the top of the boarder is a window that reads "WORLD SERIES" in white.

  Sport Kings also issued highball and cocktail glasses featuring World Series winners from 1932 through 1945. This 12 ounce World Series Highball Glass was 1 of a set of 8 Championship Sports glasses issued in 1964.

 The 8 sports included: All Time Greats, National Football Champions, National Basketball Champions, Men's Singles Tennis Championship, U.S. Open Golf Champions, Kentucky Derby Winners, National Heavyweight Champions, and Baseball which lists all of the World Series winners from 1946 through 1963.
 
   
    This crossed bats & baseball swizzle Stick is from Reedy's Tavern Restaurant in Cooperstown. Located at 43 Pioneer street, just around the corner from the Baseball Hall Of Fame and museum. Reedys Picture Bar was a popular eatery in the 1950s. "Phone 828 for reservations" Established in 2019, Molly's Deli currently resides at that address.

If you go to a News Years party this year, be sure to use a beverage coaster when you put your drink down. This Miller High Life World Series Coaster-Computer was manufacture by Morse Associates in 1976. The beverage coaster reads "Watch The World Series On Network TV Sponsored by Miller High Life Beer"

 In pulling the slide card in or out of the beverage coaster, All-Time World Series records can be displayed in the "Record-Finder" results window such as player milestones for; Most World SeriesGames, Most Home Runs, Hits, doubles, triples, etc... as the query listed on the back of the coaster. The reverse side of the slide card with "Slide Show" at the top, lists "World Series Results 1903-1975."
 
   
   Swizzle Stick from Mike Shannon's Steak and Seafood restaurant. Located in downtown St. Louis, the restaurant became a pre-game and post-game hangout for baseball fans since it opened in 1986. Just a couple of blocks from Busch Stadium It is owned by St. Louis Cardinals radio-TV announcer and former player Mike Shannon. All the walls in the restaurant were covered with baseball pictures. There was also a mural on one wall of the Cardinals announcers with free matching postcards on each table. After 30 years the restaurant closed in 2016.  
   
    In 1987, New York Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly opened Mattingly’s 23 Restaurant & Lounge, at 1700 N. Morgan Center Drive, Evansville, Indiana. The 7,000 sq. ft. restaurant and lounge, featured a carpeted floor laid out like a baseball diamond, and two dugouts where you could sit. Mattingly's 23, which took its name from Mattingly's jersey number, seated 269 people and featured sports memorabilia throughout the establishment. The swizzle sticks feature Mattingly's Yankee jersey # 23.  
 
 
 
 
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