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Posted By: Brian Powell

Dave---Thanks for your respectful correction. You know, in the spring of 1962, I was only just shy of eight years old when the Wiffle Ball commercials began to be shown. It was also only my second year of being interested at all in baseball. With Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's record, and Whitey Ford breaking Babe Ruth's record, and the Yankees on top again, plus continuing expansion, baseball was on a real high mark going into 1962. There seemed to be many more baseball promotions that year. I suppose the Wiffle ball people decided, and rightly so, that that was a good time to make a major publicity campaign to increase sales. It never occurred to me that they had already been around for a while. Thanks for setting me straight. -Brian Powell