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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Ted:

I'm glad you realized that I was somewhat serious in my prediction! I thought everyone just thought I was crazy.

I can tell you this:

If they started inserting a BASEBALL CARD in every pack of the following items, then I GUARANTEE you that my son and his friends would tell their moms to buy ONLY that particular brand in order to get the cards:

Toothpaste
Bread
Cereal
Notebook Paper
Bubble Gum
Batteries
Pop-Tarts
Cereal
Milk carton
Frozen Pizza
Ice Cream
Rice
Band-Aids
etc., etc.

These are ALL products that are essentially "generic" in some degree... so the addition of a different BASEBALL CARD inside each one would DEFINITELY boost sales at my house for my kids.

I'm pretty sure the same would be true for households across the country with young boys.


CAN THIS EVER BE DONE AGAIN???

Would MLB ever allow these companies to use the images for cards to promote their products WITHOUT charging the companies so much for the images that there is no way to make a profit off of them??