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POLO GROUNDS 1957
07-03-2006, 06:26 PM
In todays detroit free press Ernie Harwell says that back when he was announcing the games for the new york giants in the 1950s chesterfield cigarettes who were the giants sponors back then gave him a list of giant players who smoked chesterfield cigarettes and sponsored them also.
if a player made a great play or something like that ernie would say on the air for example ,Yes Sal Maglie smokes chesterfields.now Ernie Harwell was also given a second list of players who were none smokers. if one of them made a great play he would say something like this, Al Dark says chesterfield is his cigarette.
Now for years chesterfield and knickerbocker beer were sponsors of the new york giants.

EbtsFldGuy
07-04-2006, 06:26 AM
There's more to the story.

I remember watching Giants games and hearing the announcer say that if a player hit the Chesterfield sign (or maybe even a home run, I'm not sure) they'd send Chesterfields to the veterans in the VA hospitals.

Do that today and you'd be arrested!

Joe Ferrette
10-22-2007, 01:21 PM
Chesterfield Cigarettes sponsored a contest or game where points were assigned to the players for offense, defense and pitching. A player could gain and lose points depending on his perforemance. A pre cursor of Rotisserie leagues.

I recall most of the points assigned for various plays, learnibng them from my fahter (a Brooklyn fan) when I was a kid in the late 1960's. Does anyone have or know where I can find a complete set of this point system?

Ralph Zig Tyko
10-22-2007, 10:21 PM
Emphysema- 4 points
Stroke out- 5 points
Aneurysm- 6 points
Malignancy- 7 points
Croakitis- priceless, or in this case, pointless.