Posted by Mark (leave feedback to contact me) on June 26, 2001 at 08:40:17:
In Reply to: info onJim Beam MVP Baseball posted by Dawn Stricker on June 22, 2001 at 02:29:02:
Beam is one of those brands that likes to give away free "stuff" -- buy a bottle, get a free keychain or a free shotglass. They also like to make glasses that are non-standard (1979-1982 they had ceramic ones where the top and bottom were flared and the sides curved in at the middle) More recently, they made "figural" glasses -- glasses in the shape of some object, with the 1995 barrel shaped 200th anniversary glass being the latest that I know of.
Between 81 and 95 is when I think the baseball was made, and there was also a horseshoe shaped glass. There is also a cowboy boot that I think comes from before '82, but might also have been re-introduced more recently
http://www.shotglass.org/cgi-bin/display.pl?topic=beam
has pictures of the boot, ball and horseshoe
Mark
: I recently bought this shot glass at a thrift store and would like to know it's history. If you know when and why it was made please e-mail me at wolfherd@hotmail.com. Thanks!