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CIRCA
- 1994
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SIZE -
10" x 13"
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PRICE GUIDE
- $6.00 - $12.00
Very Good -
Excellent
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These paper placemats were used
by the Eat'n Park restaurant chain in
1994. Based in Homestead, Pennsylvania,
the restaurant has 57 locations in
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
Placemats such as these are used by
restaurants to keep their patrons
entertained, educated, and amused while
they were waiting for their meals to be
served. They were meant to be used once
and discarded.
This placemat features an advertisement for the Clemente Classic's
Souvenir Glasses. "A different
collectible design each week - yours
for only 89¢ plus tax when you purchase
a coke or any other beverage. A portion
of the proceeds goes to the Roberto
Clemente Foundation. The limit is one
per customer per visit."
"The Making Of A Classic" The corner of the placemat features "Four Major
Milestones In Roberto Clemente's
Career." Each with a depiction of
Clemente, accompanied with a
description, which also appears on the
glasses, as follows:
12 GOLD GLOVES - Even the longest balls weren't safe when Clemente was
Fielding. Roberto would run, jump,
climb, tumble, and battle the right
field wall to snatch back a would-be
home run. As Dodgers broadcaster Vin
Scully said, "Clemente could field the
ball in New York and throw out a guy in
Pennsylvania."
12 ALL-STAR GAME APPEARANCES - Clemente made the team every year but one
from 1960 to 1972. In the1961 Classic,
he slammed in three runs, including the
game winner, He played, according to
sports writer Roger Angell, "a kind of
baseball that none of us had ever seen
before-throwing and running and hitting
at something close to absolute
perfection."
FOUR-TIME BATTING CHAMP - The Clemente bat ruled the Sixties. Roberto took
the crown in 1961, 1964, 1965, and
1967, and beat Sandy Koufax for League
MVP in 1966. Koufax said, "He's the
strangest hitter in baseball. Figure
him one way and he'll beat you
another."
3000 Hits - Clemente capped a stellar 30, 1972 with a line drive against
the Mets. It would be his last.
Remembering Roberto, Baseball
Commissioner Bowie Kuhn said, "He had
about him a touch of Royalty."
As with the glasses, the placemat features the Pittsburgh Pirates, Eat'N
Park, and the Coca-Cola trademark
logos.
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Eat'N Park Roberto Clemente
Souvenir Milestones Glasses |
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