Back in early December I ran across a newspaper special insert that the Star Tribune had put out with their Sunday edition on April 16, 1961 that was over 100 pages long and was intended to introduce professional baseball to folks in Minnesota and the upper Midwest. The 100+ pages of course included a lot of advertisements but they in themselves are cool to look at and see how prices have changed over the years.
I finally have gotten the insert into a PDF format and I think Twins fans young and old will really enjoy it. It is a cool peak back into Twins history when life was a lot simpler and baseball was more fun. One of the funnier articles I found was a piece telling women how they should dress to attend a baseball game, don’t miss that one, it will make you laugh or maybe just scream. The ads will bring back memories of companies and businesses long since gone. Oh, and the prices of merchandise will astound you. One of the things that surprised me was as ad for a TV that had a remote, I didn’t know they had remotes back then, I thought we kids were the remotes.
Thank you for the 1961 preview from the newspaper as a pdf file. I enjoy the old advertisements as much as the baseball content!