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Originally Posted by andrewkay

Does anyone have any idea when Major League teams started running giveaway promotions on a regular basis? I am creating a historical league, and would like to start promotions in about the same era/decade that teams started them regularly.

I'm pretty sure the old time owners way waaay too penny pinching to actually give the fans something for nothing!!

Thks.

i dont have the link avail here at work, but will get it when i get home, but promos started with the invention of baseball as an organized fee-charged attraction. there had to be some way to get people to pay to check out this new thing. they werent exactly like we would imagine them today "retro-game" day, "thunderstick giveaway" day, but have been around just as long as the game. things like "ladies free" day, free food/souveniers/trinkets, "meet the players before the game" events and such.