1971 Sports Illustrated Ads

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February 20, 2012

This summer I picked up some 1971 Sports Illustrateds at a garage sale. After meticulously reading the issues while in the john, here are some of the ads I found intriguing.

Because cleats work better when they are sticking into your foot.

Looks like some hippies didn’t know how to spell.

When I think of Ted Williams, a flying lesson is the first idea that pops into my mind.

Or Brooks Robinson when it comes to projectors.

That was a pretty nice way to say that it will handle a hangover headache.

Or it could be crabs.

Well, I must be out of beer.





 

Jeff, one of the authors of the fantasy baseball guide,The Process, writes for RotoGraphs, The Hardball Times, Rotowire, Baseball America, and BaseballHQ. He has been nominated for two SABR Analytics Research Award for Contemporary Analysis and won it in 2013 in tandem with Bill Petti. He has won four FSWA Awards including on for his Mining the News series. He's won Tout Wars three times, LABR twice, and got his first NFBC Main Event win in 2021. Follow him on Twitter @jeffwzimmerman.

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MikeS
12 years ago

I had to check, but apparently they still make Schlitz. So that’s one problem you could fix.

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