Casey's Drive In Ad Featuring 1969 Cleveland Indians

Here's kind of a neat Lorain Journal newspaper ad for local hamburger chain Casey's Drive In, one of the topics (here) from the first year of this blog.

The ad dates from late June 1969 and features upcoming in-store appearances from some of the Cleveland Indians that year. (Give it a click so you can read it.) Looks like Luis Tiant was at the Casey's by me on 21st Street.

We were big into the Indians about that time, thanks to the free tickets we used to get from the Cleveland Press for getting straight A's on our report cards. It was a nice deal. We saw a lot of free games that way.

Back here I explained how I got Dave Nelson's autograph in 1968.

The Casey's deal shown above sure was a nice promotion for the kids. I highly doubt that any Major League ballplayers would be doing that sort of thing today on their day off – which helps explain why some kids, while growing up, never bond with the local team and root for other teams (like the Yankees) instead.