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That'a a photo of Scully (post # 66) as a young broadcaster at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, with the bottle of Schaefer Beer and the carton of Lucky Strike cigarettes at the ready for TV advertisements. Yes, they used to have the play-by-play announcers doing live commercials from the TV booth between innings in those days, and many of the teams' TV sponsors were beer and tobacco companies. No interference from government -- yet!

That same photo was published in Sports Illustrated about a month ago with an interesting cover story on Scully and his career.