Cal Ripken Jr. “Want to grow up like Cal Ripken? Drink Milk. It’s a Natural.” growth chart
Category:Regional dairy promotion
Collections:Ads without mustaches
Type:Growth chart
Notes
Ripken in a white Orioles uniform holding a milk carton and a glove, on a purple background with a ruler. The photograph cuts off the bottom few inches of the chart. He has no milk mustache.
Issued by: Middle Atlantic Milk Marketing Association.
Lancaster Farming of July 11, 1998 (p. B14) prints a photograph of one of “more than 100 Cal Ripken billboards” for “the new ‘Milk—It’s A Natural’ campaign” of that summer; the billboard and a Ripken commercial closing on “You Are What You Drink” have their own entry (extra-1494). Whether this growth chart belongs to the 1998 campaign is not established.
About this entry
Cal Ripken Jr. “Want to grow up like Cal Ripken? Drink Milk. It’s a Natural.” growth chart is a regional dairy promotion, filed in the collection “Ads without mustaches” of the Milk Mustache Database, which lists 2,339 entries from the got milk? and Milk Mustache campaigns. Type: Growth chart.
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