<VV> Baseball players and Corvairs - the answer

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Bob,

I think it is great!  I believe a whole bunch more than a handful 
listened...and some thought, "Wow! I didn't know that. etc..." Any positive 
publicity is worth it!

Chuck S
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> Thank you to those who replied to my inquiry about major league baseball
> players who owned a Corvair.
>
> I got the answers I needed, and in a moment I'll tell you why I needed
> them and what those answers were.
>
> But first, as is laughingly typical in any online forum, I also received
> wholly irrelevant replies, replies about figures from other sports,
> replies about minor-league players, and replies almost entirely
> unrelated to the original question.
>
> Human nature is fascinating.
>
> Anyway, I was seeking the information because my local club was going to
> a baseball game this past Saturday, and I was writing up a "blurb" for
> the public address announcer.  In order to make that blurb more
> appealing to the announcer, thereby increasing the possibility that he
> would actually use it, I wanted to connect Corvairs to known baseball 
> stars.
>
> I was able to confirm Corvair ownership by Tom Seaver (Hall of Fame
> pitcher for the New York Mets) and Don Mattingly (first baseman for the
> New York Yankees).  Perfect -- we are located in the New York market.
>
> So I wrote up a radio-commercial-like speil, which noted the club's
> presence at the game, noted what the Corvair was, noted that the club
> was this summer commemorating the Corvair's 50th anniversary and the
> club's 40th anniversary, and then made mention of these two well-known
> players who had owned Corvairs.  It would take 30 seconds to read it all.
>
> It worked.  During the game the announcer mentioned the presence of
> several organizations, but only the Corvair club got any recognition
> beyond a mention of the group's name.  The announcer read my script,
> word-for-word.  Probably only a handful of fans actually paid any
> attention, but that's not really the point.
>
> Thank you to those who helped confirm the Seaver and Mattingly ownerships.
>
> --Bob Marlow
>
>
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