In today’s New York Times’ Style section, Allen Salkin examines the Mets’ growing popularity, selling scads of “Mrs. Wright” merchandise, SportsNet NY’s rating bonanaza, etc., and comes away with the following quote from a Yankees representative.
For the Yankees™ part, Lonn A. Trost, the team™s chief operating officer, sought to avoid portraying the New York baseball scene as a competition. œI am focused on the Yankees, he said. œI am not looking to measure if Derek Jeter™s T-shirt outsells Marv Throneberry™s.
Where does one find a Marv Throneberry tee?
I think you can customize one on the Mets’ site.
One thing I wasn’t able to squeeze into the article is that Marv Throneberry was the first athlete-spokesperson for Light Beer.
indeed, and what fine commercials those were. Nice work, Allen, though with all due respect, no article about the Mets’ growing popularity would be complete without some acknowledgement of David Wright’s outreach to the faith healing community.