Cal Ripken Jr. “Drink your milk and see how you measure up to Cal Ripken, Jr.” growth chart
Category:Regional dairy promotion
Collections:Ads without mustaches
Type:Growth chart
Notes
A young Ripken in the older white Orioles uniform holding a small milk carton, with a bat and a ruler, signed off “Milk. It’s fitness you can drink.” It was made before the milk mustache campaign; nothing dated can be read on it.
Issued by: The Advertising and Promotion Agency of the Middle Atlantic Milk Marketing Area.
Three related growth charts have their own entries: Mike Schmidt (“…see how you measure up to Mike Schmidt.”), Cal and Billy Ripken (“…measure up to the Ripkens.”) and Cal Ripken Jr. with a stack of books (“Drink Your Milk, Read Your Books…”).
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About this entry
Cal Ripken Jr. “Drink your milk and see how you measure up to Cal Ripken, Jr.” growth chart is a regional dairy promotion dated 1980s, 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. 3 pictures are shown.
Related entries: Mike Schmidt “Holy Cow!” / “Milk has less than 4% fat!” sign — The Middle Atlantic Milk Marketing Association, “Milk’s got more!” television commercial — “Sponsored by Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board / american dairy association” (video stills), Scott Stevens “Drink your milk and see how you measure up to Capitals defenseman Scott Stevens.” growth chart — Middle Atlantic Milk Marketing Association, Mark Grace growth chart — Dean Foods and WGN 720 (Cubs).