Favorite baseball player commercials or ads

[Yogi#8Fan]

Any choices for your favorites? I figured we'd discussed this before w/Johnny Bench's bench. Seaver has "pitched" things like Chase Bank (still does). The only criteria f/inclusion is that it involves a famous baseball celebrity. Print, TV, radio are all fine.

Let's hear it!

[CubFan7125]

The old Miller Lite ads were always good entertainment, I remember one with Billy & George that was pretty good humor. Euk did some of those ads too, he was always very funny, whether it be talking it up with Johnny, hanging out with Mr. Belvidere or selling beer from his reserved seat, or as he put it"I must be in the front row" as he was being escorted by security to the 3rd balcony of somewhere.

And I must mention Mr. Coffee because Joe D. was simply Joe D.

Maybe a Yank fan can help me with my 3rd one, but I remember an ad for a compact car that got 50 mpg, and Mickey was in the commercial & I think his 1 line was "I hit 50 1 year". That's all I remember about that one.

[Xanadu Dragon]

Maddux/Glavine/Heather - - "Chicks Dig The Long Ball" - - - a very long story, but, it was a very helpful commerical for me. I won't bore ya'll with the tale 'tho.

[Yogi#8Fan]

As a Yankee fan, I forgot about my all-time fave: the 1998 ANSKY commercials. Anyway, it starts like this:

Five shirtless, Mo-esque type of guys returning home from a game somehow fit into the back seat of a NYC cab (standard Ford Crown Royal). The hackie looks back at them and reads "A-N-S-K-Y" spelled on their chests. He deadpans in a true NYC accent "Ansky?! :confuse: What the hell is Ansky?!" The guys then rearrange themselves in the back seat and the cabbie yells "YANKS!!!"

Anyway, the ad went on to feature several players of the dream year but I'll admit they took second place to the 5 fat guys.

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[TGwynn19]

Didn't Jim Palmer appear in his BVD's in ads in the late 1970's?? That is my first recolection of a baseball star selling something on TV. And it was not a good visual image either :(

[Xanadu Dragon]

Originally posted by TGwynn19
Didn't Jim Palmer appear in his BVD's in ads in the late 1970's?? That is my first recolection of a baseball star selling something on TV. And it was not a good visual image either

Yeah, his Jockey Ads became a stir - - he would even sign posters for the ladies at events. Put him on the map, nationally. I still can't look at Palmer without thinking of Sam Malone, and vice versa.

[Skip]

Originally posted by Xanadu Dragon


I still can't look at Palmer without thinking of Sam Malone, and vice versa.

Me either. Spooky.

[CubFan7125]

Originally posted by Xanadu Dragon
Maddux/Glavine/Heather - - "Chicks Dig The Long Ball" - - - a very long story, but, it was a very helpful commerical for me.I know any anything that contains Heather Locklear is definately helpful to my disposition. To quote Wayne & Garth "Schwing".

[Yogi#8Fan]

Originally posted by TGwynn19
Didn't Jim Palmer appear in his BVD's in ads in the late 1970's?? That is my first recolection of a baseball star selling something on TV. And it was not a good visual image either :( That reminds me, whenever I talk about Gentleman Jim Palmer, I keep thinking of that ad. Of course, I think of him w/his clothes _on_, but that's another story.

[CubFan7125]

I'd rather see Jim Palmer do DVD commercials than say.......John Kruk.

[Skip]

Originally posted by CubFan7125
I'd rather see Jim Palmer do DVD commercials than say.......John Kruk.

Or David Wells ... or El Guapo ... or Randy Johnson (no pun intended).

[Xanadu Dragon]

Originally posted by CubFan7125
I know any anything that contains Heather Locklear is definately helpful to my disposition. To quote Wayne & Garth "Schwing".

I have seen an angel, and Heather be her name...................

[Yogi#8Fan]

Originally posted by Skip
Or David Wells ... or El Guapo ... or Randy Johnson (no pun intended). Uhhhhhhhhhhh, no thanks, I just ate breakfast and it hasn't gone down yet. Some guys just weren't meant to sell Calvins is all I'll say.

The only thing RJ should sell is his "before" pix and you could slap him up and he couldn't look worse. Just as Michael Jordan sticks out his tongue when he drives for the basket, Randy scrunches up his face. As to why Fox thought we wanted to see tight shots of his crater mug, I'll never figure out.

Some people I wonder why they bother selling stuff. John McEnroe once sold razors but his face is always clean like a baby's :moon:, so why bother? Oh well, at least he didn't play baseball.

Oh yeah, there's also the Bo Knows commercials which featured McEnroe (nodding his head that Bo didn't know ice hockey). Bo knew tennis, hockey and about every other sport imaginable. I was wondering if he was going f/sportsman of the century or something. ;)

To one detail, Bo admitted later that he wasn't really skating on ice, but used roller skates on the hocket shots. You'd think McEnroe would say Bo doesn't know tennis but that's life. I liked the part about one famous jazz/blues guitarist saying "Bo, you don't know Diddly!"

[sweaver]

Some memorable quotes:

"This is Phil Rizzuto for the Money Store!"

"No runs, no drips, no errors."

I can't remember what DiMaggio said in the Mr. Coffee ads, but it sure was smooth.

"Must be in the front row!"

"Bo knows __________"

"Chicks dig the long ball."

Anybody care to add?

[Xanadu Dragon]

Funny, it was Palmer that replaced Rizzuto in the MS commericals.

[hmrsf]

I feel ready to go another 9 innings!

I know who it was but can not remember what it was for.....either tylenol or gerital?

[Yogi#8Fan]

Did Bob Uecker do any commercials? How a guy who hit even worse than Ordonez could be called Mr. Baseball and so self-effacingly so is beyond me. I think I'd seen him on Match Game PM or one of these other TV shows in the 70s or 80s. Great guy, but wouldn't exactly give "Pops" Stargell a run for a power lumber spot.

Oh yeah, I heard Yogi Berra recently did some commercial where he was directing some orchestra (NY Philharmonic?) but I only heard a blip of that earlier this month. Something trying to lure audiences back after the unfortunate events 3 months ago.

[CubFan7125]

Originally posted by Yogi#8Fan
Did Bob Uecker do any commercials? How a guy who hit even worse than Ordonez could be called Mr. Baseball and so self-effacingly so is beyond me. I think I'd seen him on Match Game PM or one of these other TV shows in the 70s or 80s. Great guy, but wouldn't exactly give "Pops" Stargell a run for a power lumber spot.. Euk appeared in those 70's era Lite commercials & was quite good. He also did a few regional commercials back in the 80's.

[Skip]

Originally posted by hmrsf
I feel ready to go another 9 innings!

I know who it was but can not remember what it was for.....either tylenol or gerital?

That was Nolan Ryan "pitching" Advil.

[Yogi#8Fan]

Originally posted by Skip
That was Nolan Ryan "pitching" Advil. I remember having seen those commercials. I don't remember the catchy line but he'd linked his endurance to this I remember. He'd also done ads for the NRA, though I suppose that's a might more controversial.

I think Seaver's probably done more commercials but I can't remember all of them offhand. He's Mets legend #1 and has shared the Yankee booth w/Scooter Rizzuto (after having hit won #300 at YS -- which totally ticked off George at the time) so he's got no negatives whatsoever in the NY/NJ/CT area.